41 – planning to go to the Nationals down South
Now the plan was to aim for the Nationals in the South Island at Hawarden… but that was a while away yet. A month after the NI Champs was the Waitomo ride at Paemako. ...
Category: General Horse Stories
Tom Quilty 2019 – part 2
The alarm had been set for 10:30. Horses were to be saddled and ready to start warming up by 11:15. Ride start 12:00 or 00:00:00, midnight. I had been planning to have breakfast when...
Tom Quilty 2019 – part 1
My Quilty story actually starts back on December 13, 2016. It was my parents wedding anniversary and we’d all been out for dinner, driving home I sort of noticed a shadow at the top...
Lace’s Leg Injury – a Pictorial of Healing
A sequence of pictures of a horse’s leg injury from day 1 to 6 months… and what I learnt.
Do Horses See Colour?
I used to work in a University Animal Behaviour laboratory. We generally did “operant” experiments where you teach the animal to make a response for food – peck a button, nose a lever, press...
George’s Christmas 2015
I hate Colic. In 1996 I lost my then best horsey friend, Mitch, I called in to see him on the way home and less than an hour later my friend was dead. His...
