Say a prayer for my wife tonight!

[Groesbeck Hurricane]

Her best friend passed tonight, I was just told...

She bred him and raised him and they had been together since 1986. He was a good horse, Polish Arabian by the name of Cola (RC Free to Dream). Only thing he ever did wrong, if you could call it that, was step on my toes (all the time!).

He was a good horse and a good friend. He even came up to nuzzle me and beg for treats right before I went on this trip.

It has been a rough month, this has been the hardest!


Be glad to see this month go!

[Racerbvd]

Done...

[HardDrive]

Very sorry for your loss.

[doug_porsche]

celebrate the time you had!

sorry for your loss

[H.G.P.]

Here in The Spirit. There's a star up there for him.

[Laneco]

I feel for your wife. We lost our last two a few years ago. Both Arabians as well, the gelding a well bred Polish, coincidently.

The gelding, was the first to go. We got him when he was five. A holy terror if there ever was one, a horse that needed a job. We found one for him, he was an exceptional endurance horse. He once covered 150 miles cross country in 22 hours total (that included stops) and galloped across the finish line. I rode him in the Tevis Cup, but I could never wear the buckle he won, because it was always his. When he was 24, a growth in in jaw kept him from eating, so we tube fed him every 4 hours for more than two weeks until the test results confirmed that it was a most aggressive cancer. When the kill-drug took effect, he raised his head, pricked his ears forward as if he was spotting some finish line to race for, then passed from this world to wherever good horses go on the next.

The last of the horses was Abba. We got her when I was one year old. She and I grew up together. My first horse show, my first ribbons, trophy, 4-H, my first endurance ride. All of my life that gray mare had been there. By the time she was 36 (35 years with our family), she had become quite infirm and physically challenged. When it got bad, I held her head in my arms, and wept like a baby when we put her down.

The bonds with the horses developed through those long miles and many years eclipses my love of all other four legged friends, even dogs. Prays sent for your wife.

angela

[speeder]

So sorry to hear. I've never had a horse but can only imagine how much I would love one if I did.

[5String43]

Oh, man. Really sorry to hear. Thoughts are with you both.

[oldE]

David,

My heart goes out to your wife and you.
I am not a 'horse person', but knew they would be in my life when Joy and I met. She will never be without a horse in her like. (or a horse's ass, as long as we're together)

Right now one of our four has Cushings disease and will colic from time to time if we don't limit her grass intake. Joy feels this will be the old pony's last summer and is trying to make it a good one. Damn.

Give her a hug from all of us who "don't like" horses.
Les

[GothingNC]

Prayers sent.

[Groesbeck Hurricane]

Thanks everyone!

Angela,

I so very well understand! Sounds like you and your friends had strong lives together!

Les,

Yes, I am also the roped in hired help. I'm not a horse person but I help with the ground work and the fencing and the hay and everything else. I even build barns for them to sleep in.

[Tobra]

harsh, even worse than losing a dog

[azasadny]

Very sorry for your loss...