I know I’m biased, but I don’t think I’ve ever found such a funny duo as my two boys. They actually make me belly laugh sometimes with the mischief they get up to when they are together.
So much so it means that, in the winter, when they are out on grass, they have to be in separate fields, because all they do is play, and playtime on wet winter fields means one thing: MUD. One day, I actually decided to pop them out together (to be nice), and then felt the regret when I went to bring them in and what was a nice green field now resembled a mud pit. I felt like crying, and that was the last time I felt like being nice.
A bonus for us is that over winter we do use the arena/sand pen and trash field, if the fields are particularly wet, and I don’t mind putting them out together in those. It does mean they can then play together, as horses should. And I do love seeing it. As soon as they go down on to their summer fields, they’ll be back in with one another, and hopefully they haven’t got too long to wait now.
They just have such personalities, and you can see the mischief in their eyes with whatever they feel like getting up to. Do your horses ever do anything that genuinely makes you laugh out loud? And sometimes want to cry too?
Arnie is 100% the antagonist. He winds Arlo up whenever he feels like it, much to his enjoyment. It’s 100% a brotherly type of relationship and, depending what mood Arlo is in, it always just goes one way or the other!
I’m so lucky to have them both, carnage and all.
Once again I threw Arlo in at the deep end, affiliating him purely for the Arena UK second round show, and once again he pulled it out the bag. How lucky am I to have such a wonderful little horse? We haven’t really competed this year. I don’t really compete over the winter, and also my horsebox was away for repairs up until the beginning of June, so I had no transport even if I’d wanted to.
With the dry ground we don’t seem to be having much luck with shoes, as little madam managed to pull both her front shoes off within 12 hours the other day! We entered the arena with two shoes on for a schooling session and left it with one missing (took about an hour to find it). Then that afternoon, as I went to put some hoof ointment on, I looked down and had to double take, thinking I was looking at the wrong hoof. But, no, the other shoe was missing too.
After having a long wait and some lunch at the onsite café, it was time to get ready for the Joan Wolfe Overall Supreme Shetland Pony Championship. I got changed out of my usual showing outfit into black trousers and a maroon top with white spots, as you are expected to be a bit more “bling” in the evening.
We were all set to go for our next outing, and were super excited. That was until I heard the dreaded clunk of a loose shoe! I checked it over, praying it wasn’t too loose, but, nope, it was going to need a refit.