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Post by bloke3 on Aug 11, 2005 11:39:12 GMT 1
Thanks Sue, it sounds really interesting. How long do the drifts take? Is it an all morning thing?
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Post by suenf on Aug 11, 2005 11:56:12 GMT 1
Hi Bloke 3 The drifts take as long as they need to round up the ponies, sometimes it can take a couple of hours and sometimes much longer! Once they have the ponies in the pen the young staying on the forest are branded they all have their tails cut which takes quite a while, oh and this is the social bit, lots of sizing up of each others stock and standing around chatting!!! A couple of years ago my previous horse (an exceptionally naughty L/W coloured cob) who my oh used to use in the drifts, decided as we hadn't taken her to the local one (we were busy) she would jump the five foot wall around her paddock in the pouring rain, therefore in a soaking wet NZ and join in on her own! She refused to let the riders round her up into the pen - which is what you do when riders fall off, and she stayed out with the riders for three hours or so in her steaming rug. When she finally gave up someone was heard to say, "what's that horse doing in a NZ" our agister know for his SOH yelled " don't shout about it or all the ponies will want one!" The next year someone came up to me at the same drift not realising who I was and said "has that silly bitch locked her pony in this year" - I came clean that it was me!!!!!
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Post by suenf on Aug 11, 2005 11:58:08 GMT 1
The censors got me i wasn't actually typing "silly pregnant dog" but b**ch!!!!!!
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