Re: The story how you got your horse

Well I wont go into detail on all the horses I have had coz I'll bore you to detah but Coco I decided to get after a 12 year break from horses to get uni out of the way and my career sorted so I could afford a horse again! I told my mum I was getting another horse and she was 'Oh god your not are you? All that work and mud and winter weather and the money?!?!' The next day she called me and said 'Do you think if I put a bit  of money towards buying the horse I could have some input and maybe ride him out every so often!' She is as horse mad as me and although her practical side said no as soon as I planted the seed she had to be involved!

Anyway we started to look and the 1st horse I saw I loved, he was perfect for me and mum. I had other viewigns booked that weekend but none of them were a patch on him so I called and put in an offer. Unfortunately he failed the vetting so we had to pull out which broke mine and mum's hearts as we had decided he was going to be our boy and started imagining him coming home etc. We carried on looking and had so many disappointments with horses that weren't what they were advertised, horses in poor condition, the perfect horses that you called the instant the horse deals mag came out and were already sold, horses booked to view and then the phone call hto say they had sold them that morning and we were beginning to loose hope of ever finding our boy! We saw one who was not as advertised that morning and when we got home I looged onto the website and an ad had just been posted about Coco about 30 mins before! It got my attention immediately and I called mum in to see, she agreed and we called the number from my mobile. No answer sop left a message then tried them off my  mum and dad's home phone and left a message and then off my dad's mobile and left another message - we wanted that horse! She called us back and asked when we wanted to come and see him, we said now! She said how about tomorrow morning and we made her promise not to show him to anyone else that afternoon! That night my mum text me and said he was the one she could just feel it and I felt the same. The next day we got there an hour early coz we were so excited. I tried him out in the school and loved him, he was a little greener than I'd planned but all the basics were there of a fantastic nioce natured giant! I then hacked him back to the yard alone to spend a bit of time alone with him, we went past flapping black plastic - fine, we had 2 huge lorries pass us - fine, we went past a drive way with log stumps at the end of the drive and he snorted and had to cross the road to pass the evil stumps which made me laugh and I was sold - he was the horse for me, lovely, solid, safe and just a bit daft! I arranged the vetting whichhe passed and we picked him up the next day! I can still remember taking him home, it was a gorgeous sunny spring day and I couldn't believe I had such a gorgeous horse of my own and I was taking him home to be my boy! Best day of my life without a doubt!!!

Re: The story how you got your horse

I actually met alpha a year before without knowing who she was.

A friend of mine had bred her horse and I went with her to the stud to go and meet the new addition. In the field where they were kept there was several other mares and their foals, and there was this particular big bay that followed me round the field and sniffing me.

A year later the foal was ready to come home, and after losing my previous horse to a sudden illness i was horseless and casually looking around. I got picked up from school by my parents and friend who said there was a mare for sale at the stud who we thought was in the field with Zara when she foaled a year before. We went and saw her and fell in love, my mum who was scared of horses walked straight  into her stable and Alpha stood there sucking her thumb.

Two weeks later the big bay that had followed me round the field a year before knowing and buying her arrived at my yard and has been here since :)

The picture is when we sent to see the foal- alpha is the bay on the left (Little did i know!!)

Re: The story how you got your horse

 I got Sonny from a dealer/stables that i went to view a mare at. The mare was already sold on my arrival so i ended up viewing him instead. Jago is my friends horse from a equin rescue up the road from me.

Re: The story how you got your horse

My mum bought Parsley from a woman as a 2 year old for £200. Best £200 she ever spent.

Funny enough, she always regrets not buying the other youngster the lady had as well - who was indentical to Parsley but a bit bigger - 14'1/2 or so.

He's been in our lives now for 22 mid this year. I grew up with him as a baby, to a child to a teenager. We know each other like the back of our hands/hoof and to be honest with you all, I can't even begin to describe how much I love him. He literally is the best thing that has ever ever happened to me.

*wipes pathetic tear*