Love that. Actually, since I have a 30-year-old, I think of him as my senior, but I also have my 25-year-old whom I still ride, and he’s not an anything either. I’m lucky. Though my 13-year-old is on Equioxx, so it balances out, I guess!!
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Since we are talking about old horses here, I think it is worth mentioning that hunt horses typically remain sound and healthy much later into their lives compared to horses in other disciplines. It’s not unusual for a good proportion of the horses in the hunt field to be sound, happy horses that you’d never guess are in their late teens or twenties. Also, compared to other disciplines, hunt horses once they are settled in their career seem to often stay with the same owner (or within the same hunt) for the rest of their lives.
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I think it’s worth noting that is your perception based on your lived experience. I haven’t encountered any population level data to support this conclusion.
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This is the opinion of one of the sabs in our area on FB last night, thinking it might be okay to shoot a hunt horse in the eye with a crossbow to punish the huntsman riding it, that’s the level of insanity that hunts deal with over here in the UK …
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Well that just shows it’s true that it never was about the animals. It’s a class issue
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I was unfriended by a guy years ago (a friend of a friend, from the UK) as he looked to condemn a woman for whipping the person reaching into her bridle. ‘She could make it rear and endanger the guy’
Nope, friend. Grabbing a horse by the bridle like that makes for a dangerous situation.
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