28th April, 2007 Charity cases

Spent the day at the Margaret Green Foundation Trust training new staff and new horses. All were very interesting. Megan Turner came up from the charity Horseworld - they have 110 horses in their care! It was good to compare notes. The most challenging horse was a 17.2 h.h. 16 year old unbroken Cleveland Bay cross who was absolutely beside himself when we brought him in. He has become very attached to another horse within days of coming in and spent the first ten minutes neighing his head off and walking forward into me. After working with him pretty intensively for 15 minutes he suddenly seemed to realise that I was there and began to listen and to respond. We ended the session by long-reining him in the school while his new friend watched him from the stable area. It was a touching moment when he chose to follow me loose around the school rather than diving for the fence to find his friend. This little horse lost his mother when he was three months old and he appears to be still searching for her.