25 Jan 2013

A small summary of January


A small summary of January. I've been working my ass of with Giga for two weeks on our school show. As I said, the show went well.

I picked Giga up Sunday evening. The trip home went insanely wrong! It went fine with getting her up in the trailer, she's so easy concerning that. We drove on the highway and suddenly my friend and I hear very strange sound, so we choose to stop at a nearby gas station. On the way to the gas station people honked and yelled hysterical at us. So we knew something was very wrong!

The back tire on the trailer was completely destroyed. Giga began to panic, and I must honestly say I panicked to. I called a Danish car service, called Falck, which usually comes and "saves" people in need. But they wouldn't help us, they don't help in horse cases, like what the fuck! Well, what do you do then, I thought. My friend remembers suddenly that Stud Kronplet where Giga is stabled has a huge horse trailer.
We call Mona who owns the farm. And she came immediately to rescue us. She arrived 20 minutes later. We got Giga loaded fast in the new trailer and when we almost had closed the door she jumped over the front barrier and got stuck with her frontleg. We tried everything to get her to throw the leg back. But she looked like someone who had already given up. But eventually we got motivated her to get the leg over the barrier.

My friend had to stand in the trailer with her ​​all the way home. Fortunately no one was injured and Giga are perfectly fine now. I don't know if I can get her up in a trailer again after all the bad experiences. But I still have to get over the shock. So when I'm ready I have to try and see if Giga has gotten any traumas.








News about Victor is that I have had a vet out to him. He had gotten something disgusting goop under his stomach. My last rider to him hadn't brushed him good enough. So I had to cut all his hair of. But the fact is that Victor hates a cut-machine. It ended up with that the vet had to sedate him for 2 tonnes, before he began to relax!  He's just a fighter, poor thing! He also got his teeth rasped, which he needed much. So Victor looks quite ugly, but my old boy is much happier now with all the hair of. Luckily, there have been minus degrees and snow ever since he got alt the hair cut of. Mud creates all the problems!









Show 19/1-2013


January has been an exciting but also a very busy month. As mentioned, we had a horse show at my school. Everything went super awesome. Giga was so good. It went far better than expected, our rehearsal went so wrong. I almost fell of Giga and when 4 people clapped all 10 horses ran of. It was pretty strange, Giga is usually very calm but because of all the other horses, she got quite excited and she ran of with me twice. And the first time I ended up completely out on her neck, it was pretty wild.

But fortunately all the horses was extremely sweet at the show and I'm just so proud of Giga. We only had two weeks to rehearse it all!












30 Dec 2012

Home Sweet Home


I'm back at home (Denmark). I've been sick as you all know. So I haven't written much on the blog. I hope I get more energy to it. I've enjoyed seeing my horses again. They are doing well. However, there has been a lot of drama concerning. Victor's new rider.

Therefore I went home early to see how it all looked. I rode Victor, and he was REALLY signal confused. Poor horse, the new rider has just destroyed him! So now I have to start over with a part of his back and stop signal. Everything is quite messy in his head. He didn' seem happy, his spark in his eyes was completely gone. So I'm really upset. But everything's gonna be okay, he's a strong horse. So he'll get happy soon.
If you are wondering why I have a rider to Victor it's because right now I have no time for two horses. So I have tried to find a regular rider for him. Unfortunately, this girl wasn't very honest and responsible. Although she agreed to Victors special mind and that his shape right now wasn't that good. It sucks. But at least I have some honest friends, otherwise I wouldn't have figured it out so fast :-)

In the picture is my first rider to Victor. The two of them just fit perfect together. Her new horse died after she had had it for a month. So she just needed a break concerning. horses. Which is understandable. Fortunately, she wants to be his rider again. Which is a relief! :-)



Look at all the snow we had in DK!
I want it back, I hate mud!






Snow sculptures of stallions


Snow sculptures of stallions are carved onto the landscape prior to the start of the annual Vasaloppet China International Ski Festival at Jingyuetan Park in Changchun, China.







25 Dec 2012

The Draft Horse in Art

 
I'm just sitting and looking at some old antique pictures of horses on google, yea I'm a bit bored, it isn't easy for me lying in bed all day long. I found some really beautiful pictures of the big powerful draft horses.
 
This one looks like Giga!

"Shire Horse, Erfyl Lady Grey" William Albert Clark c.1928

"Lucky Lad, a Shire Horse" H. Crowther c.1914


 
 
 
 

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