Grace has given me a lot to think about. And the more thinking I have to do the more I cook. So we now have 15 portions of beef in ale and about the same of sausage in tomato sauce. And a roast chicken. And a beef curry. And that was just what I cooked after yesterday's foot trim.
As the freezer is now completely full I think today I will just turn her out.....
It was lovely to read though. Gracie is one very clever girl. We humans are very limited creatures sometimes but those lucky ones of us have a clever horse to show us past our own noses.
I was hacking my old arab around a new area some years back. At a certain point he refused to go forward. After a few minutes I got annoyed and tapped him with my whip (back in the days when I still did such thing ) and he siged and walked on.
A few minutes later I had to turn back - I'd gone the wrong way and he had been trying to tell me .
Oh Yes. Have you read "life lessons from a ranch Horse" there are lots of examples in there
One time I was riding Choctaw in the woods near Houston, I was going down a wide fire break track where we usualy had a good canter. This time Choctaw refused to canter and was reluctant to go down there. We has fought our way about 50 yards down it when he stopped and refused to go any more.
I was trying to see what the problem was when a deer shot across the track about 30 ft in front of us. Choctaw did not move or spook. About a second behind the deer was a cougar (mountain lion) in hot persuit. Once the cougar had passed Choctaw moved - straight ahead at full gallop. I just hung on and prayed that I did not fall off, or that he did not stumble. I did not know he could go that fast. No, I do not know what happenned to the deer, but Choctaw must have sensed the cougar, adn wanted to protect both of us.
On my first horse, a stunning Qrab chestnut mare - was doing an endurance ride where the route was a clover leaf shape. We had a bit of a 'debate' about which loop to take in which order. The horse of course was right, even though I had the map..........
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