This Poor Horse should be Retired IMO.

"reitred or passed onto charity, are you for real? "

ooopssss...... ok, ok, i have to admit i'd just got up,
i was'nt wide awake, supping on a mug of T when i saw the ad' & posted, i should have noticed the tack was holding his head down, but it did'nt register, he looks sad & tired & i felt sorry for him, i certainly was'nt suggesting he should be Shot, or sent to the knackers yard, but given better treatment than that implied by the ad' & the photo'.....phew!
thanks 4 the replies anyway.
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sort of like my 19 year old - currently gearing up after bucking me of in the VHS class (just got too excited in the canter/racing start as far as he was concerned) to getting his 1500 k award next year with endurance gb....
 
I dont agree at all. 19 is young compared to mine!!! - mine is 28 and still living an active life, not as much work but is hacked, and lightly competed (once a month at 2ft3 tops - one class). I seriously believe when you retire these oldies when they are sound, they fall to pieces. The more you keep them going, the healthier they stay.

He looks a bit fed up in the picture but then mine will stand like that sometimes. I didnt even get mine til 16, why do people write them off so quicky once they hit their teens??

PS and for the record he won one class and 2nd in another with my lovely sharer!! So no dont send em to a charity!
 
My old boy is 20yr Grade A and still behaves like a loon. He went to Weston Lawns on Thursday and it the 1st time he been in the ring for 12mnths, pulled my arms out of the sockets, did double clear and 4th. He would still go around a 1.30m track. Most people that come on my yard are gobsmacked when I tell them he's over 20yrs.

My old, old boy was 26 when I jumped HOYS and 33/34 when I lost him through colic.

Our eldest resident we lost last year at the grand old age of 45yrs!

All the above walked around like little oaps, yet tack them up and they become real live wires. Like us, age is in the mind.
 
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