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Taken from the Latin, meaning ‘I see’…<\/em><\/p>\n

Browsing for some old work files on various ‘not usual’ hard drives, I came across a video clip (no sound) which made me smile loads: Vin, being shown to me, the week before I bought him.<\/p>\n

It all came about like this (cue the Scooby Doo wavy vision).<\/p>\n

I had a telephone call from Sarah, a friend in Somerset. Sarah said that there was a mare for sale in her area that she had heard was not only a fun horse, but was also a competition (Eventer) in the making.<\/p>\n

I took the details, rang the seller and arranged to drive down to look at the horse the next weekend.<\/p>\n

The large dark bay mare looked alright in the stable, was easy to groom and tack up and had good manners.<\/p>\n

But the moment I sat on her I started getting problems; she refused to move in to the arena. She was the nappiest horse I’ve ever met – to the point where she’d prefer to expend a whole pile of energy in bronking, rearing and trying to buck me off (and failing) than just walk in to the arena.<\/p>\n

After 20 minutes of the mare almost injuring herself rather than go in to the arena I called it a day, dismounted, handed the reins back to the owner and walked away.<\/p>\n

As I was in the area I drove to a friend’s place – Nicki Stephens’ yard at Burcott, just outside Wells – for a cup of tea and a natter with whoever was around.<\/p>\n

My friend Lotty was there playing with her horse. We sat and chatted and I told her about the mental mare. She jokingly said ‘You should have a look at Vin if you’re looking for a good horse’, and nodded at the end stable in the line.<\/p>\n

Inside was a big, strikingly good-looking Chestnut gelding who seemed a little cautious but not shy.<\/p>\n

Nikki said I should sit on, I said my faith in horses had taken a knock for the day, but if she wanted to show him off to me I’d be interested in seeing him go.<\/p>\n

She groomed him, got his tack ready and started working him while I dashed back to the car to get my digital camera which, fortunately, also has a video recording function.<\/p>\n

The following weekend, confidence restored by the lovely Beech back at home, I drove back to Somerset to sit on Vin.<\/p>\n

We schooled in the arena for ten minutes, we went out for a hack with Lotty for an hour – crossing a big, scary (and very deep!) ford in the process – and when we returned to the yard we went in to the showjumping arena and popped round a small course of 3′ (1m-ish).<\/p>\n

And then I bought him.<\/p>\n

The video is interesting for me to watch, it shows how far he and I have come; Vin is much more relaxed now than he is on the video, his head carriage is steady, his outline is better and he doesn’t show any resistance – but he’s keener to go on (although in the video you can see that he’s quite keen to go on anyway!).<\/p>\n

But for the horsey person looking in who can assess a horse’s character… yep, he really is this nice.<\/p>\n

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Sorry about the poor quality of the video, it was my digicam!
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