I am enjoying blogging so much I thought that I'd share other things that I love too. As my profile says I am a horsewoman, which is not very easy or cheap in a country with no grass! I am the proud owner of Persa a 16.2hh t/b mare. I've owned her for almost four years and I have seen her grow and change so much. So much that now my 14 year old son is riding her and preparing for competitions in Athens.
It has been a long hard road to get Persa to trust us, with quite a few near misses in between. I remember the first time that I saw her. I was looking out for a suitable horse and there was stood in a crowded paddock full of all different kinds of horse, she was lame and dirty, with hardly any mane or tail. She looked so out of place in that paddock and lost. Anyway, I thought don't be ridiculous, she's lame a t/b and a chestnut this is not the horse for you. I was really tough, although I fussed her and felt for her I just thought that that is not a horse that you want to buy!
I couldn't forget though, and a couple of weeks later I went back. This time she was in a worse condition, she'd had a terrible t/b accident, she was being stabled in old pig stables which were like tiny stalls, there were over 30 horses on that yard which in the morning were all released from the shippons simply by this guy walking along and opening the wire across each stall enterance. Thirty horses then stampeded out of the building and then into a tiny paddock where I'd first seen her. Persa had apparently charged passed this strip of wire across her stall tearing the insid of her hind leg right to the bone. She was now stabled stiched and on antibiotics. (Thank goodness she'd been given treatment.) her tear had been stiched up, but it was infected. She recognised me and I thought I just can't leave you here again.
That was it then, although I couldn't ride her, and I had no idea how she went, I knew that I was taking on an un-trained ex-race horse I knew that she would probably be totally unsuitable and the biggest mistake of my life, but I just couldn't leave her.
4 comments:
Hi Julie
My partner and i are moving to crete as soon as our house here in uk is sold. I have been searching for somewhere on the web for horse's for sale, Would you know where the best place to buy a horse out there as my partner and i are keen to own our own when we come to live there. Any information would be appreciated.
Kind Regards
Diane
Hi Diane,
I am in the same process, currently moving over to crete. I have a little experience with the 'horse conditions' over there. I would say that there are a few stables that use horses for tourest ventures. Some of these are prepared to sell/give you information on where to buy one from. However, be pushy and investigate all aspects of your chosen horse. The conditions can be shocking and upsetting, so make sure that you see your chosen horse in its stable, not just when the stable boy brings him out. Also, common sense - check the horse history and maybe even strike up a contract. Some horses are sold with underlining problems that are not high lighted upon sale.
Good luck.
Kind regards
Hi Diane,
I know a lot of the horse stables in Crete, and there are many horses for sale, some lovely horses that need to be rescued as well (although of course, their owners don't think that). There is a closed stables in Deres where the horses are left with little or no water to roam the hillside - but all are nice horses. Another stable in Georgioupolis (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2nDbHKwh4I) has horses that need feeding.....but they aren't keen to sell. The stables in Rethymnon and Heraklion do have nice horses for sale, but you really have to find out the history as the owners tend to make things up instead of admitting they just don't know.
Good luck!!!!
where i can find a horse to Chania?
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