"Who is your "soul horse/s"

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A friend who visited from the US asked me this. We had grown up together rode together and had the most blissful of horsy childhoods. We have both had many horses over the years and my soulhorse was Gleneagles Apache III a 14.2 skewbald gelding who was like no other before or since. Together we soared, no challenge too big, implicit trust and faith in each other it seemed we were each others missing half. Sadly he died at quite a young age due to acorn poisoning and even now 30 years on I shed a tear for him. Meridian Magic who I owned for 25 years who died of old age (and a bit of cushings) in my arms in my garden was another soul horse in a more adult way. Despite having 8 horses now and loving the ground they walk on, there is a 2 yo I bred who has soul horse qualities and we just understand each other.

How about you? Or am I nuts!!!!! Could be the glorious sunshine outside!!!
 
No you are not nuts! I know exactly what you mean. I have 8 horses and my rising 3 year old is defo my soul horse. I don't know what it is but she has never put a foot wrong from being born. She just accepts everything we do with her and loves having serious cuddles when laid down in or outside!

I just have a fab connection with her and if I feel down she seems to know and is very very sweet.

Hoping she stays this way when she is backed at rising 4!
 
Pics of her as a baby and as a rising 2 year old - couldn't resist
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I love foal picks... they just look so innocent and vulnerable.

Only on my second but we've got such a rapport going it has to be him. Also given my age (42) and his (5) he will be my only horse (touch wood). Love him dearly and we wouldn't be without each other. He throws his toys out the pram in his paddock if he can see me up at the school riding another horse till I bring him out then he's fine. Always staring at me when i'm having a chat somewhere else. Just so chilled out with me - total cuddlemonster. I even found a song which so reminds me of him and how i feel about him.

http://www.last.fm/music/2002/_/Suddenly+Yours
 
Lucy is my soul pony. She is my best friend in the whole world and for 12 years my life has revolved round her. We have been through so much together and at times she has been the only one there for me and silly as it sounds i prob wouldn't be here anymore if it wasn't for her. But if it wasn't for me Lucy wouldn't be here either as i rescued her from going for meat and although i was told to have her shot for years i refused to give up on her and now i have a pony that would follow me to the end of the earth and prob off the edge! We trust eachother and have a bond so strong everyone i know is gelous.
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I have turned jobs down if i couldn't take Lucy with me even if they where an amazing oppatunity (Now thats prob nuts)
But Lucy is the most important person in the world to me I know one day she will be gone that was bought home to me afew months ago but i will make the most of whatever time we have left because there will never be another Lucy.
 
How beautiful.

Do you think you have more of an affection if you breed them ? It must be lovely to know literally their whole life story.
 
I did a post about this last week.

Mine is an 8yr old unbroken black arab brood mare, who i don't even own and is worth more than i could ever afford. And is for sale
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She's one of my share owners' and we have such a lovely bond. She leaves her haylage (she's very food dominant with the 2 other mares she's in the field with) to come and have a quiet cuddle, and would stand there all day if i let her. If i had enough money i would buy her tomorrow. And i know that she would be a lovely sensitive ride who took a lot of trust in her rider once backed. I will be devastated when she goes, however ridiculous it seems for me to be so in love with a horse that isn't mine and never will be...
 
The horse who has my heart is the beautiful T/B Andalusian I bred now 4 years old .
I own his mother .I watched him grow inside her and talked to him as I gently groomed her.
I was there when he was born and had to gently pull him out by his front legs as he got a bit stuck .I was with him when he took his first breath opened his eyes got to his feet for the first time.
When he looks at me his eyes look into my soul. I was the first person to sit on his back and he was the easiest kindest horse to ride NEVER puting a foot wrong .
When I appear he calls to me always comes over to say hello yet is always respectful and never pushy.
I can never imagine leting him go he will always be with me the trust in his eyes is hard to describe.
Yes I think it does ake a difference when you have bred them.
 
Mine was a racehorse called Red Tempest.

I'd had quite a difficult childhood but was the eternal optimist. I genuinely believed that every dog had its day and it would only be a matter of time when good things came to me
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When I went to see about working at the racing stables he was the first horse I saw and in a split second my lifes 'slate of s**t' was wiped clean
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I loved him more than life.

He was a hurdler and when the owners decided to steeple chase him I freaked out. I begged and begged them not to do it. I would have been on my hands and knees opening a vein if it would have helped. They decided to give him one race and if he didn't travel the course well then he'd be retired and I'd get him.

He shattered his pastern second last fence from home and was pts on the track
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it changed my life and my temperment. When they phoned to tell me he was dead my legs buckled and i hit the deck. I got off the floor a very different person. I can't say its a better person but definitely a stronger more vocal one.

I had nothing to do with horses for about 8 years until I got my mare. I'll always love him and actually looked at putting my mare to his dad - the irish stallion red Sunset - but didn't have the cash
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Even with Turbo is at his absolute worst he gets a goodnight kiss and cuddle and I'm very grateful that he is safe and well.
 
I love all my horses with all my heart, but the one that stole it was my beloved Nettie. Lost him 2 weeks short of a year after i bought him. I cried so hard that night, ripped me in two, he still makes me cry every time i think about him even 2.5 years later. RIP little man xxx

When i went to see him
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A couple of weeks before he was PTS
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What lovely stories. I just do not know what people who don't have horses in their lives do!!! I listened to your songs - just lovely. There are two songs I love by Templeton Thompson (even though I don't like country music) but they really do sum up well us horse people especially those of us that have children who have that same bond and trust with their horses and you see your life all over again.

The tracks are called "Girls and Horses" and "Guardian Angel" You can see the videos on You Tube. Although the songs are a bit cheese Guardian Angel is quite inspirational and designed for us horse people.

OK must stop this before my eyes brimming with diamond tears turn into a torrent and make my mascara run!!!
 
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The horse who has my heart is the beautiful T/B Andalusian I bred now 4 years old .
I own his mother .I watched him grow inside her and talked to him as I gently groomed her.
I was there when he was born and had to gently pull him out by his front legs as he got a bit stuck .I was with him when he took his first breath opened his eyes got to his feet for the first time.
When he looks at me his eyes look into my soul. I was the first person to sit on his back and he was the easiest kindest horse to ride NEVER puting a foot wrong .
When I appear he calls to me always comes over to say hello yet is always respectful and never pushy.
I can never imagine leting him go he will always be with me the trust in his eyes is hard to describe.
Yes I think it does ake a difference when you have bred them.

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I agree! Although my filly is even more special than others I have bred - love them all and it is really really hard to let them go but my Echo is just something else to me!

Another one I have bred and still have!!

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My mare, Jess is my soul horse. As a pony mad teenager, I fell in love with her, and saved and saved til I could buy her when I had a job (5 years later). I have had her for 9 years now and she is just fantastic, we have been through so much together and I have struggled to keep her as a student and since, but it has all been worth it. It's funny, she isn't particularly affectionate or cuddly, she isn't very expressive towards me, but I am the only person she really trusts. I too have turned down jobs if it wasn't practical to take her, and my whole life really revolves around her. She has taught me so much and been an absolute dream.
I now have a youngster too, and although she is impeccably behaved and very sweet, and I love her dearly, it isn't the same bond I have with Jess. Jess really is one in a million!
 
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I too have turned down jobs if it wasn't practical to take her, and my whole life really revolves around her.

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I am glad it's not just me. My friends and family all think i'm mad for the oppatunitys i have let go. But i just couldn't bare to be without Lucy.
 
I love both mine and would be lost without them and I would honestly say Fudge is my dream horse of a lifetime and we have a very strong bond.
But I can honestly say I think my little ginger pony, Lady is my soul horse as we know each other so well it's like we can read each others minds.
 
my ex racer - the quote in my sig sums it up when he was PTS

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good
 
My current horse is... i would do anything for him, he makes me happy beyond what anyone can do. Ive had him for 3 years but i have done so much with him in that. He is the type of horse who never says no, he is just so giving and nothing is too hard for us. No fence is too high, he tries his heart out...
When we went round our first 1.15m track i have never felt more proud.
He also has this really weird thing where its like you feel automatically peaceful when your near him... lots of people have said it, its really odd... and i love being with him.. its like nothing matters apart from him.
He is the best thing that i have been given and he was the last thing my granny brought for me and he is with me for life.
I have loved all my horses a lot, but there is something about him... i don't know what, maybe that he just never says no or that he is just such a nice horse to be around.. i don't know, but he will be the one i will never be able to forget and all future horses will be compared to him... because he is perfect.
 
I know this will sound a bit strange, but I have such a strong bond with George, Tom and Whisper I couldn't say which was my "soul" horse - all 3 of them call to me in a way I've not experienced before.

I just tried to write what I mean about each of them and got too emotional!!!!

Others have been dearly loved but there is something a bit different about these 3.
 
<font color="blue"> Could be the glorious sunshine outside!!! </font>

*Wonders if to take this post seriously
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My lad is my soulmate. He's no superstar in the conventional sense, but he's a genuine and kind horse and we've had so much fun together. I don't think he has ever let me down and NEVER EVER has he put his ears back or even suggested lifting a leg to anything I have done to him. He is patient and kind but up for a good blast, popping fences and a good fussing.

Yeah, he's my soulmate and I adore him.
 
My Gynty, she alternates between Gynty love and Gynty git, but I wouldn't change her for the world, She is an IDSH , I bought her as a 6 month old, from a lovely lady,she bred her from a ID stallion out of her cob mare.we love her temperament so much so that whenwe were offered her mum a couple of years later we jumped at the chance.
Gynt --thats what I call her, Is a dreamboat, perfect size for me 15.3 mw bay roan, temperament to die for, won't do a join up, because I am sure she thinks she is human,she is 6 now.I started her myself--first time I have ever done it, wow, within half an hour it was like she had been doing it all her life.I had a crashing fall 6 years ago , when i was 43 and she has helped me get my confidence back.I love her to death, so many people have asked to buy her but she will be with me until the day she dies or I do.I can tell her everything, she listens and in her own way tells me what to do.now my 3 daughters have left home she is my baby in a horse sense
 
Mine was my first pony sonny(sunny) we went through so bloody much together basically hell and back but we got there in the end sadly he died in 2000. Have had lots of horses sense but nothing to him except for my mare Hari who i got in July who is just him over the back but has a slightly nicer attitude i think i have very much found my soul mate again as oi could never ever bare to part with her not for a million ££££'s
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