TCJpart92 Spending Time

A HOT SUMMERS' AFTERNOON:

...and spending time just hanging out with my boys was just the thing I needed to get over a nasty spell of the flu and escape a house of builders.

 

 























So it was, I grabbed a magazine, Your Horse as it turned out, a bottle of water, shoved on my old mountain horse boots and settled myself down in the shade under the eves of the yard.  Began to read with the tranquil sounds of munching and deep breathing in the background.

The boys are very used to me positioning myself amongst them, offering myself up as an honorary herd member and chilling out.  This time they got as close to me as they could and fell asleep directly above my head.  I  love it when they do this, it's like they're trusting me to keep an eye out for foe.

 

After a few minutes, because that's all the time they spend sleeping, they begin waking up, and that's when trouble begins.

Tom grabbed my water and waved it about and Henry, not altogether fully agreeing with the sentiments of the article I was reading..


...reading about manners, and how to teach your horse to have some...and as if to prove the point of the text, Henry grabs the magazine and tears the page out!

This is just a lovely tale of spending time with my boys and how calm they make me feel when I'm with them.  I love them.

Horse Sense

Special Edition

FAMOUS TRAKEHNERS:
What more is there to say?

TCJpart91 Amusing Noticings

HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED...?

...how your horse behaves for strangers?...and how, that behaviour is a reflection on you and will have a bearing on the effectiveness of the purpose of the visit.

 

 

 

When Tom & Henry get the regular visitors, and you might remember I won't let just anyone anywhere near either of them, they behave beautifully, and exactly as I'd expect from either personality.

 

 

Well mannered and polite, my boys are lovely to be around and amusing to.

 

Henry, of course doesn't like to stand still and is prone to an alert status whenever anything is happening around...and it needn't be close either.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom, with his usual bored expression will watch whilst Henry gets all agitated, knowing it'll be a fleeting state and he'll be fine and calm soon.  Tom approaches everything with quiet calm.

 

Working with your horses own personalities can help you achieve a pleasant working relationship when it comes to vets, farriers, teeth doctors, physios, saddle fitters etc, because you will personalise your approach and the stranger will follow your lead.

 

 

Remembering all horses, just like us, are different.  They have different motivations and interests, and knowing how to work with these will help you as a team be effective in assisting a vet for example to treat a wound or trauma where a calm and still horse will be of benefit.

 

 

Horse Sense

Horse Sense

Special Edition: Legacy

TOM & HENRY:
...and how life doesn't always work out how you imagine...


 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

Dear Jo,

When you keep Trakehners, you never quite know how your life will turn out.

On the one hand, they are superbly talented: athletic, clever, brave, fast, move like a dream...

 

...then on the other hand, they are stunningly beautiful.

 

 

So it was Tom and Henry had to choose between the usual career path of a Trakehner: dressage, showjumping, eventing, super-hacker...or to follow a different path completely, into modelling.

 

Well, everyone says it's an impossible dream, but here we are and the iconic photo of Tom & Henry is immortalised in fashion, on a front print t'shirt for M&SWoman.

 

Funny old life!

Shelley.

 

In semi-retirement from work now, Tom & Henry will have their memoirs ghost written sometime in the future and they have plans to start their own fashion line too: rugs!