Mine is getting me a month of extra lessons with our coach 
Itās our gift to each other!
Um, itās Hanukkah in my case, but Iām paying her vet bills
Mine would get a new blanket, when I can find one made of light chain mail with a soft fluffy liningā¦
I actually had a few $$$ in my wallet yesterday scared up from loose change found in the sofa cushions and contemplated a trip to the tack shop after a trip to the barn to look in on the horses. I had visions of horse treats (maybe even sneak in a cute pair of boot socks for me) dancing in my head and ooooh, and even thought about just looking (just LOOKING) at new tall boots (still in the dreaming of one day stage). BUT NO! Horsey was scraped up (not too bad, but think: chorizo) due to tossing around like a tumbleweed/working himself up during a nasty windstorm. So my trip to the tack shop involved spending my pesos on yet more first aid stuff. I was no longer in the mood to think of stupid socks or gaze dreamily at boots. I clutched my sack of necessities and left the store thinking hey, I signed up for green paddocks, white fences and a beautiful gray horse to ride like Aspercel. I think I was on Santaās naughty list because instead, I have a non-rideable but lovable goof in a dirt-and-tumbleweed place. My horse will now have daily advent presents of gauze, wound cream, and bandages. 
A bag of carrots and maybe a bucket heater for hot toweling.
My horse is a real life Barbie horse with the wardrobe that goes along with it. My next purchase will be a dressage saddle. I am searching for used but thinking of going custom.
I was going to buy my foxhunter a new bridle, for Christmas, but then I remembered that my granddaughter told me that after this summer, she plans to never ride again competitively (she will age out of 4-H and has no interest in open shows). She never did like riding English as much as Western, so all her very expensive, nicest stuff in the barn, ultimate English tack will no longer be used. Her horse is the same size as mine --so her $400 bridle will be my horseās new hunt bridle next season. My horse has been using hand-me-down tack his entire life since I always bought the event riding daughters and then 4-H showing granddaughter the best tack (and horses) I could afford. Now I will get to use it! Perfect all the way around! Oh, the fancy show horses retire here --one is too old to ride, and not sure what to do with granddaughterās show horse --heās sound with special shoes at $200 a set, but not sure Iām going to spend that just to have a second horse to ride when my horse suits me fine. He may just retire to the pasture too --Iāll have a lot of time to figure it out. Sheāll compete this summer (4-H) then in August leave for college --at that time, Iāll consider the options --forever turnout, or a set of special shoes for another six weeks. . .and maybe ride him . ā¦ wow that was totally off the topic!
One mare gets a round of Adequan. The other will get a new saddle. The gelding gets to go back into work after 3 months off due to a nasty deep leg wound. The foals and ponies all got new winter blankets.
And while shopping for the children (the four-legged ones) I bought myself stuff too: new winter muck boots and a new bridle.
I love tack shopping. All my horsey friends had gifts bought and shipped weeks agoā¦ I havenāt actually got anything for my family yetā¦
Treats!
He gets hundreds as is, but heād always like more
Carrots and stud muffins and apples etc!
A trip to the vet school for a gastroscope and an ultrasound 
Lucky guy, Iām sure itās just what he wants!
A trip to the vets for hopefully his final gastroscope! Then heās buying me a new pair of tall boots for loving him so much I was willing to spend the thousands to get him healthy LOL (when your vet clinic jokes they should put your name on one of the new machines, you know youāve been there lots) 
Both of mine are getting training board for the month of December, since I will be travelling a lot, and my husband has to have surgery. But I guess that is a Christmas present for me (although they have much grassier paddocks, which they are enjoying).
What all my animals get every year. The gift of life.
Ariel most likely will get a Back on Track saddle pad. A fellow boarder makes stocking caps and fills with horse treats for $6, so she will be getting that.
My guy gets a break from his crazy mom while sheās on vacation out of state. And the knowledge that he continues to live his cushy, lazy, and 24/7 hay lifestyle because I pay for it all
My mare is getting a the best retirement home a horse could ask for. It will be April before she moves, but I set it all up this week.
Itās in her best interest and sheāll get more love and personal care in my friendās backyard than I can give her right now.
My favorite redhead is getting a new bridle and Platinum Performance. If I can find the time to be crafty, Iām making her a stall sign also
Mine are getting their training bill paid. They should be happy with that lol
Tip has a new heavyweight Wug, a new heated water bucket that he will not drink out of Because Reasons, and a serious set of body clippers. He also has clearance to start back over crossrails after aggravating his old suspensory injury this spring, and thus has the gift of a more interesting life than the discipline of āI ^&$#ing Hate Dressage!!!ā. (His opinion. Not mine.) He will be receiving two bags of animal crackers and a box of ginger snaps.
If I really loved him, Iād give him a zip up jacket so that he could play with the zipper all day every day. Since heād immediately pull off the tug and eat it, I must not love him.
Oh I like this thread!! I didnāt buy that stuff for me, I bought it for my horse for Christmas!!
New saddle pads
New winter blanket
New riding crop
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I didnāt buy that stuff for me, I bought it for my horse for Christmas!!
New riding crop[/QUOTE]
Your horse just texted me and asked to please have you include a gift receipt with the riding crop.
