No Orange Pekoe, sorry.
We got there and he was being spit and polished for our arrival. He wasn’t half as ugly as I had made him out to be in my mind. He wasn’t long in the back either, which I had also imagined, and he wasn’t base narrow like I thought. He was smaller than I wanted and I doubt if he is really 16.2, but he does have the most cheeky, fun, lovable temperament and curiosity about life.
So the stable rider rode him – and he was very fizzy. He was threatening to bolt when he saw some staring white electric fencing that Ran had put up yesterday. Ran was looking very worried at this stage and I told him that it didn’t bother me one bit. He’s only four and I don’t want him brain dead! He moved 50% better than I had remembered. He does that trot where he is in the air for an absolute age. Only a lot of warmbloods do that by swinging their hind legs inwards as they go. Not him, straight underneath him. Front end matches too.
I got given a leg up. Stood still he seemed a little narrow and not much in front of me. Then he moved.
Oh boy. Oh boy oh boy. Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy.
Oh........................My..................Gollygosh
Muriel I take my hat off to your contintental breeding programs. I defend to the death our British right to breed Heinz 57 horses and compete them wherever we like. But there is no doubt that French/German/Dutch breeding licencing is churning out horses that in Britain we just struggle to match.
I’ve never sat on anything like it. He was AWESOME.
We bought him of course.
So why no Orange Pekoe? Because he has a fabulous name that suits him down to the ground – Majistralis. And as I am a Magistrate, a JP, he will be called JP at home. This is a symbolic break from the Tea Party brand, it’s time for a change. On Friday after Tetley has left it will be the first time in TWO WHOLE YEARS that I am not knowingly caring for a sick horse.
It can’t lessen the pain of saying goodbye to Tetley but it goes a long way to taking my mind off it. And if his problems are the spur for me to pay serious money for a seriously well bred horse, then at least something good has come out of it for both me and for Victoria.
C.
Some bad pics, I'll get better ones next week.
posted by cptrayes @ 4:20 PM
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5 Comments:
he he, sounds like the earth moved for you Caroline?? Very exciting stuff, when's he coming home? Vetting first I assume?
Tracey B
Crikey he's huuuuuuge...look at the length in that step....
more pics asap please!
I hope this means abck to the even keel again after the rollercoaster of the last couple of years.
Wow! My heart dropped when I read the heading. Then it started beating full power again as I read on. I am so happy for you!
Did you jump him? I see you looking at one of the fences in the ring in the pic, so I can only hope. If that feeling matched the one you had on the flat, then oh boy, oh boy, oh boy...etc. *G*
At four, he too still has growing to do and all that filling out horses do somewhere between 4-6 years old. You fit him well now, as a matter of fact, so no problem there.
My heart aches for you with Tetley's parting, but as I well know, a new horse in the barn is just enough distraction to make it all a little easier. I think Tetley will be pleased to know he is not leaving you without a worthy replacement. (And, Miss Tia is going to fall in love with the new man in her life....)
wow. like jean, i thought oh no something was wrong, but pleased to see not. what an excellent name! more piccies i ndue course...
Tracey the earth was about 9 on the richter scale :-) He has a 5* vetting in English, done in Holland on only August 8th and it's absolutely clean. And Ran has a fantastic reputation for honesty and sells 100 horses a year, so I am not having him vetted, the sale is already done and dusted. I'm picking him up on Friday.
Victoria has arranged a lorry to transport Tetley so that his first journey in a trailer won't be 5 hours. Her lovely parents are paying for it, how sweet of them. So Tetley leaves on Friday morning in top class racehorse transport driven by a friend of a friend of mine. I don't think I can bear to be here when he goes, so I plan to leave before he has gone. I know that isn't best for him, but neither would it be best for him to sense just how badly I don't want him to leave. And since just thinking about it now has brought tears to my eyes I think I should say goodbye and leave him in his stable.
Mandeigh, that's just it, he rides absolutely enormous. I'm trying now to put up another pic that was rejected earlier on.
I didn't jump him Jean. At four he doesn't need me feeling at all unsure about whether he should jump or not, so I thought I would leave it until I get him home. I've seen him jump, and it's fantastic. Also, yesterday he jumped the 4 ft rails from his paddock into the one next door :-) And last week, the day before I saw him, they were popping him over a 3 ft tiger trap in the field and Ran told Marcel to stop as he had already done it well. Marcel tried to pull him up and he wouldn't, so he pulled him out but he wouldn't turn. So there he was pointed at the 4 ft post and rail instead of the tiger trap - so he jumped it. I don't think jumping is an issue for him!!!
C
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