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HOW TO SPOT A NAUGHTY PONY?

25/1/2016

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I think the easy answer is probably that you can't, unless you manage to catch it mid rear as it disappears in to the sunset.  When you buy a horse the problem is, you never know.  They are an unknown quantity and will always be a risky business.  From spending over half million at a yearling sales on something that had some blood of some horse related to Red Rum decades ago, to spending a thousand pounds on a happy hacker, we simply never know what we are really getting. People spend millions on racehorse yearlings every year that couldn't beat a donkey and I have known 800 pound ponies turn in to superstars. 

Even horses we have had for a while surprise us.  I have had my mare for some time, yet the other day I find she is randomly lame.  Its nothing that I could have predicted, or stopped and I don't know when I will be able to ride her again, nor do I know what is wrong.  These things happen in the horsey world all the time.

Being a lawyer in my day job, from 9 to 5 I am risk averse, but, when it comes to horses I am a raving lunatic that will shoot for the lamest maddest thing I can find.  But at least you could say when you do that, you kinda know what you are getting.  I didn't know my mare would go lame, but what I do know is that these things happen and I refuse to stress or panic about it.

Instead, I have my lovely Arab coming on beautifully and a potential horse in for some behavioral rehab in the coming weeks.  There is always a silver lining to these things and I intend to make the best of it.  That's horses after all and us horsey folk are all marginally MAD.  I find the best way to deal with something like this is to just roll with it, smile and remember that no-one died.

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