Ha! Ha! Ha! Not quite the horses life at SIRE, they have their own manifold opportunities to show kindness and forbearance. Imagine you’re a sturdy, reliable Appendix horse. You’ve just been bought by a riding school [and] you find your stall with fresh, clean shavings and fresh hay. “This is nice,” you think. “I like my new home.” Then, 4 o’clock rolls around. The lesson kids show up. They shout excitedly about the new horse at the barn and how gorgeous she is and oh look at her stockings and I want to groom her and they dart under your legs and yank some forelock out as they roughly slide a halter on over your head and you’re being dragged out of your stall and surrounded on all sides by a mini-van load of girls clad in pastel breeches and paddock boots and suddenly there’s brushes everywhere and they’re trying to pick two of your feet at once and fighting over who gets to ride you in the lesson today and they haven’t even talked to the trainer yet about if you’re an appropriate horse to ride and it’s not even 4:15. Bless every lesson horse .... These half-ton animals can handle all that before they even walk to the arena without harming a hair on a child’s head.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:52:56 +0000
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