I present to you all, The Moose - Moose is currently in Bastard Jail cause he's come back completely feral from his time off in the spelling paddocks after retiring from racing.
Why Moose you say? Well, he's an incredibly large unit standing just shy of 18hh, with a huge ass head and tends to lumber around like one, too.
He's got the over-sized carriage horse look going on rn cause the fucker let the yearlings in the paddock next to him chew off his beautifully long and thick tail😭🙄 but he's come back to the yard for re-education and for a hopeful career in the show horse/hunter ring 😌 and if he sucks at that, I might just persuade my coach to let me give him a spin in dressage cause he has some pretty nice gaits and hopefully we can turn him into an eventer if all else fails 😂
Plus, he's the most comfortable thoroughbred you can ride bareback 😍 we've taken him to the beach prior to his spell and it was a genuinely pleasant experience and felt super secure cause of how wide he is 😌 can't say the same for when I rode Nep bareback, that's for sure 😭😂
ok so, unfortunately charlie was just not the right fit for me or my parents, he had a lot of health issues which caused him to have prescription medicine which we could simply not afford. he is now owned by my friend autumn. I'm sad honestly, but she said i could still ride him if i wanted to. we are looking for a new show horse and this is the one we are looking at, what do you think?
When BoJack Horseman (2014-2020) said "you can't keep doing shitty things and then feel bad about yourself like that makes it ok. you need to be better" and "all we have are the connections we make" and "I really should've thought about the view from halfway down" and "sometimes you have to take responsibility for your own happiness" and "you do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around, you turn yourself around, THAT'S what it's all about" and "things have to get worse before they can get better" and "in real life, the big gesture isn't enough, you need to be consistent" and "if we hadn't met each other until now, we wouldn't be the people we are now" and, my personal favourite, "every day it gets a little easier, but you gotta do it every day, that's the hard part, but it does get easier".
SO absolutely stoked with mister Ed today!! And yes I have just woken up from a 3hr nap to post this 😅🙈
I really threw myself in the deep end trying to attend the NZSRA All Breeds show with him after I’d just gotten him back not even a month ago, he hadn’t been ridden all week (except a quick jaunt on Saturday) and it was a cold drizzly rainy day, but he was foot perfect as always! We had the hairiest horse with the longest mane by far but he only missed out on placing in 2 classes - so so so happy with him! Lots of compliments from the judges and people on the sideline, he’s just such a dude 🥳🙌
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Inhand:
Best presented - unplaced
Best walk - 1st (those months of trekking paid off 🤭)
Best trot - unplaced
Best gelding (4yo+) - 5th
Best handler - 6th
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Ridden:
Best presented - 5th
Best walk - 3rd
Beginner - 3rd
Green standardbred over 158cm - 5th
Best paced - 3rd
Best mannered - 5th (he was so over it at this point he kept stopping to poo 🙈)
Best rider - 3rd (I feel like I’ve probably got this and mannered mixed up but I can’t actually remember, I was having too much fun 😅)
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HUGE thanks to mum my biggest supporter who I couldn’t do any of this without, and to the NZSRA for hosting such a nice chilled out day! And to everyone at the show who were all so lovely to talk to and so welcoming to us total newbies 🥰
The biggest kudos goes to my special wee man Eddie, to whom I’m totally grateful for coming into my life and being my bestest buddy and putting up with me faffing and fluffing around ❤️