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• Who to Sell?

  Here is the judgment of Solomon, given that as we know any sale is a betrayal of a long term family member however redundant and annoying they may objectively be. Indeed many Funded would contemplate extreme measures rather than risking an horrendous chain of onward sale in a downward spiral to the knackers yard. And […]

• Buyers

  There are buyers and “buyers”. As soon as a horse is on the market there is a peculiar class of horse lover determined to check the horse out (to compare with their own) other horses at the yard and the yard itself. These are buyers” (aka time wasters). Most sound and are plausible, and probably […]

• Life after Ponies

  As children get older it is easy to forget the extraordinary blissful state of life without [Name that pony/young rider organisation]. A brief and passing re-acquaintance with the world through family friends however soon brings back the horror that finds the Funder in the bar and the Funded on the couch as the vortex of […]

• Success

  A sad thing about success is that in addition to it breeding jealousy, it also breeds inevitable sale, which also breeds gossip (which horse people are especially good at and enjoy). It is a truth universally acknowledged that a really successful horse is for sale at the right price; this is after all a business, […]

• More Shoes

  OMG. I thought that all that could have been said about shoes had been. How foolish a Funder! Accepting that it is simply impossible to get shoeing right (and trust me the level of abject and desperate misery that shoeing can drive the Funded to knows no bounds), it is nonetheless wholly in the spirit […]