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horse mad helen Lifetime member
Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 524 Location: telford, shropshire
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:05 Post subject: horses |
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so how many of you own horses and what sort of things do you do with them |
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mbw13 ****
Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 341 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:01 Post subject: |
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Not me sorry.
I once refered to a caramel coloured horse as a Jersey breed, lol. I'm from a dairy farming background clearly _________________ 1996 Mazda B2500 |
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biggus *
Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 45
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:29 Post subject: |
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Horses are nice enough but you have to cook their meat slowly as it can be tough otherwise. |
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mia **
Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 113 Location: aylesbury
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:33 Post subject: |
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Had to sell my horses when the kids came along. (With hindsight i think i sold the wrong thing, should have sold kids)!!
Used to do a lot of show jumping and a bit of cross country just to give horse something different to think about occasionally.
Will get another one when kids have left home and i can afford it. _________________ If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem. |
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Gypsyfilly1964 Lifetime member
Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 152 Location: essex
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 14:03 Post subject: |
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has one horse, an irish piebald cob mare. i do the hacking my daughter does the schooling and shows. Hence the trooper to tow the box. Have had the horse now for over 8 years, got her as a 3yr old she is now 11. She is with me for life.
Ultimate choice
kids, husband or horse
Horse will win every time, far more obedient. Oh and she dont argue or act childish. lol |
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Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 5181 Location: York
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 14:25 Post subject: |
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Used to do this.
On No.8
Winning on the Flat
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mia **
Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 113 Location: aylesbury
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 14:35 Post subject: |
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I always fancied having a go at flat racing but my Grade C showjumper felt differently! _________________ If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem. |
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:::Matski::: Lifetime member
Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 5181 Location: York
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 14:57 Post subject: |
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biggus wrote: |
Horses are nice enough but you have to cook their meat slowly as it can be tough otherwise. |
I agree, I had donky and pork saussage in france. Very nice it was too. |
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DYLAN Moderator
Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 5115 Location: Chesterfield, Derbyshire
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 16:05 Post subject: |
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:::Matski wrote: |
I agree, I had donky and pork saussage in france. Very nice it was too. |
Don't tell me you ate like a pig and felt like an a*s
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horse mad helen Lifetime member
Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 524 Location: telford, shropshire
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 16:13 Post subject: |
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well ive got one horse a reg partbred welsh sec d x with an arab and boy does she go had her for 6yrs and she is now 15yrs old also got a few ponies including my old lady a shetland that i rescued a few years ago and she 23yrs old and still goin strong my daughter rides her and i take her out in a cart that ive got which is great fun the original off roading |
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rallymarshall *******
Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 1728 Location: somewere thereabouts
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 18:14 Post subject: |
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:::Matski::: wrote: |
biggus wrote: |
Horses are nice enough but you have to cook their meat slowly as it can be tough otherwise. |
I agree, I had donky and pork saussage in france. Very nice it was too. |
did it taste like chicken _________________ atb kevin
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chrali *
Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 39 Location: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:44 Post subject: FWord |
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No not that one.... The one with Gordon Ramsey in. They had one episode where the scary woman with all the teeth went to france, pick a nice horse and had it slaughtered. She then BBQ'd it and encourage horse race attendees to tast it in the UK.
I couldnt do it. If I had to meet and greet my meat , I'd be veggie in a heartbeat.
We've got a pair of rising 3 year old fillies. Ones a new forest type who gets fat at the thought of grass, the other is an palamino anglo arab who is very scatty.
They're not broken yet, so all we do is walk them. |
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flashman ****
Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 325 Location: Portsmouth
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 19:50 Post subject: |
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chrali wrote [b]
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Ones a new forest type who gets fat at the thought of grass, not broken yet |
You talking about hard1 by any chance
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ulsterandy Newbie
Joined: 10 Oct 2007 Posts: 3 Location: plymouth
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:56 Post subject: |
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I got an 13ys 16.3 Irsh/Draft TB Mare, use her for Hunting in the Hunt season and Show junping in the summer. Also the girls have two ponys. 12.2 Dartmoor cross and a Wlsh Sec A. Hence the reason for buying the Bighorn lol. |
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Lisa H Newbie
Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 4 Location: edinburgh
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:47 Post subject: |
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Hi Helen
I have 3 horses - 2 ex racehorses - my OH is a national hunt trainer in Scotland and I rehome all our horses out of racing, and for other trainers up here too.
I have a 24 yr old ex chaser/pointer call Rambo (Winter Ramble) and he is a lovely old gentleman. We've been together 14 years and he is my best pal. He is fully retired now and just lives the life of luxury in a retirement that he has definately earned bless him.
I have an 8 yr old hooligan called The Count - he was warned off the race track for unruly behaviour at the start and in the paddock so his owners gifted him to me. We are still in the 'retraining' stages but he is coming along slowly but surely. Once he has settled I think he will be a super wee man, but he does have an 'edge' to him and some days you just have to say 'not today' and pop him back out in the field
I also have Troy - an 18.2h IDxTB who I saw looking very very thin in a field and tracked down the owners and bought him. He is now a very big and handsome boy and would try and jump the moon for you if you asked him to.
I run the Scottish & Northern Ex Racers Club with my friend Sandra (she is in Yorkshire) and we arrange shows, racecourse parades and other displays to show that ex racehorses can retrain to do other jobs very successfully. We have paraded at Musselburgh, Kelso, Pontefract and Doncaster and have loads planned for 2008.
I am not sure that I can post links to the club forum on here so if anyone is interested and live in Scotland or North of England, own an ex racehorse and would like to find out more then just PM me.
Horses is the reason I got the Trooper - to tow my trailer and it does a sterling job at that.
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