Given the extraordinarily delicate constitution of all horses and the concomitant extraordinary attachment of riders to their horses it is hardly surprising that the industry of feed and feed supplements with quasi-magical properties has burgeoned to Hogwart-like proportions. The THF soon learns that no-one really knows what makes a horse healthy, and that an animal which for thousands of years has thrived on grass cannot possibly be expected to survive in modern times without a vast computer controlled menu of hot/cool feed with vitamin/oil/seaweed etc etc supplements. Without this menu the horse will naturally ( if that is the right word) fade way, become fat, be uncontrollable or lazy, probably get laminitis and certainly perish in a miserable manner. Hence the average Feed room looks like the bedside table of the Malade Imaginaire.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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