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Summer 2005
We seem to be having a Chestnut Explosion this year.
Sadly Surprise Encounter exhausted Sue's patience and she finally threw
in the towel after 8 months. Surprise is a lovely boy providing he is
not in charge and solo hacking is not his forte, he much prefers to
play follow my leader and let others make the decisions on which way
to go.
So since his return we have concentrated on his flat work and to our
surprise he has some degree of talent. 1 month in, we took him to a
show and he ran through Prelim 4. 3 times, and by the 3 test had settled
very well. All credit to Kate who has done all his ground work and never
ridden a test in her life.
Two
weeks later at Chard Show we took Surprise and Wild Sky to do the prelim
4. This time Surprise decided that the white boards were snakes in the
grass and shied and bucked when asked to canter. Wild Sky also behaved
badly and although he had not watched Surprise doing his test, shied in
all the same places. Good job we have a sense of humour.
Cappa Hill 9 yr old chestnut 16.2
Cappa has been gifted in by his owners of only 6 months. Sharon and her
daughter Jamie made an expensive mistake when they agreed to purchase
Cappa without getting him vetted. Although the try out, was uneventful
the owner convinced them that a vetting was unnecessary, as a queue of
people were lined up to buy him.
Not wishing to lose what they believed to be the perfect horse they agreed
to purchase. The owner also delivered the horse to Sharon and Jamie. Days
later it became apparent that all was not well and Cappa had changed in
character. Bravely Jamie started to ride him but each time he would hump
and was obviously not the horse they had tried out. His passport made
him out to be an Anglo Arab called just Cappa, registered with the Scottish
sport horse Society. After some investigation they found out he was in
fact a full TB racehorse.
6 months on and not wishing to pass him on to anyone else he has come
to us. 3 Qualified physio's have seen him, Lindsey, Joe and Tracey and
the conclusion is, it appears this poor chap has had serious trauma to
his withers and ribs, and because of this he is terrified of any pressure
around that area.
The problem now is the memory of the pain he has suffered in the past,
but he is such a loving and affectionate guy, he is more than worth the
effort.
Korakor 11 yr old Chestnut 16.2
Korakor arrived only a couple of days ago, ex chaser who sadly suffered
an injury 3 months ago and will have at least the same time again before
he comes back into work. He was immediately turned out next to Cappa and
its quite amusing they look like twins, same colour, big white face, but
Cappa is just a little more rotund than Korakor,
He arrived with his long term lass Dawn, armed with pressies of a sack
of carrots a very large box of polo's and a brand new Masta stable rug
that she purchased herself. Its very hard for the people that look after
these horses in training and very upsetting when they have to say goodbye.
After an introduction to the other inmates and Impy, a cup of tea and
a mob greeting by 6 dogs Dawn had to say her tearful farewell to her long
term friend.