Have you ever wondered the reasons surrounding why equestrians love horses as much as they do? Well, here’s some great information to help you answer exactly that – and the reasons, well, they may not be quite what you expect!
- Horses leave our bank balance successfully in the red each month – fact. If it’s not, we’ve probably forgotten to pay our livery bill
- We enjoy pain, and hurtling around an arena with no breaks during early spring, it helps keep life interesting and our riding skills sharp
- We enjoy being dirty and smelly! Mud is supposed to be a good exfoliator anyway, all the top sauna’s use it dh!
- Sleep is over rated anyway, we enjoy 5.30am starts even at the weekends and going down twice a day in the winter – interrupting anything else we plan to do
- We pretend we don’t like to go out and socialize, we’d rather spend it being cold and wet with the horse
- We enjoy being kicked, stood on and ran off with as it keeps us fit and our muscles well stretched
- Paying our hay man is keeping him in a job, he can feed his family throughout the year now (you see how thoughtful we are?!)
- We get away with talking to ourselves (we just say we were talking to the horse)
- Wasting time is what we do best, we spend hours perfecting banks, levelling the base and digging out tiny pieces of poo for the horse to destroy our masterpiece in under a minute
- We get away with looking dirty when down the supermarket, just throw on the jods and chaps and we’ll be excused
If the above list hasn’t helped, you could always try helping at a stable yard local to you! That should help prove our point nicely. Don’t forget your wellies!
Suzanne Ashton, Founder of Everything Horse (Est, 2012), has a BA Hons in Marketing Management and a Diploma in Equine Science. Suzanne has ridden and owned horses all her life and has twelve years of experience in marketing, writing, design, SEO, and website creation.