Danny

Danny

Height-15.3hh

Colour-Bay

Age-8

Hey guys,

I'm Danny or Daniel when I'm naughty.

In the winter we are not allowed to go out in the field, something to do with letting the grass grow. Poppy tosh in my opinion. I just want to go and have a good run around. My stable is right at the end of the barn so as soon as I wake up in the morning I see the field. It calls to me and it drives me insane.

My friends and I do get put out into the paddock for a few hours a day whilst our mums clean our beds and give us more hay and water. This is nice but its not the same. Boy I cant wait for turn out day. We are all going to go mad! Having the freedom of the whole field is bliss. A few of my friends don't let their mums catch them for a few days afterwards. Its a right laugh seeing their faces when they can't catch them.

Anyway...back to me :)

A few weeks ago I decided I didn't want my rug on in the paddock so I have a brilliant way of slipping out of rug without tearing it or undoing any of the straps but SSHHHH...it's our little secret ;)

As soon as I took my rug off, I decided I didn't want to be bay anymore...I wanted to be black.. Bring on the rolling hehe :D

Again mum wasn't happy and spent 2 hours waiting for the mud to dry and then another hour trying to get it all off hehe ;)

Then it came to the time of the day where mum rides me. She didn't put the tack on me today though. She put my head collar on and took the long whip thing and took me to the paddock that I had just been brought out of. Then she did the strangest of things...she just let me go and chases me away. I ran away wondering what the hell she was doing. Turns out its a way of exercising me called something like Free Schooling.

To show you what I'm on about

Its loads of fun :D

You get to run around and be a loon :)

After I have been exercised, my legs are washed off at the hose and I am taken back to my nice warm stable and have my tack taken off.

I normally have a good shake then use my mum as a scratch post which she puts up with for about 2 minutes then she complains that it hurts and walks away! CHEEK!

After I have cooled down and mum has checked that I'm not sweating, I get my feed (She only checks that I'm not sweating because there is a chance that I will get colic if she feeds whilst I am sweating.)

After my dinner (Yum!) I give my mum a HUGE kiss and cover her in feed. Lovely :)

She just laughs at me and tries to wipe it off :)

One thing I don't like is seeing my friends out in the paddock and I'm in my stable so I can't join them. I normally run round my stable calling to them. It never works. I normally just get told to calm down and I am ignored until I do so. Oh well, it's worth a try.

Right I'm being taken out to the paddock now. Time to get nice a muddy.

Bye

Danny

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