{"id":803,"date":"2008-11-27T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=803"},"modified":"2015-02-25T20:37:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:37:40","slug":"rehabilitating-exs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"Rehabilitating exes"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not some thoughts on what to do with your ex-boyfriends, former girlfriends etc…<\/em><\/p>\n

I was over at Lisa’s place the other day reading this article about racehorse rehabilitation. Apart from emphasising the difference between the US and the UK, the piece also reminded me how far Vin and I have come.<\/p>\n

Vin is my third TB ex-racehorse. I’ve rehabilitated all of them myself. Unfortunately it takes two years (or sometimes longer) of retraining to get the mental out of their heads and turn them in to safe riding horses. And retraining them isn’t a job for amateurs.<\/p>\n

But it’s very rewarding, to see a rehabilitated racehorse having fun and enjoying a new lease of life.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately ex-racehorses are as cheap as chips at bloodstock auctions.<\/p>\n

I say unfortunately because, far too often, experienced equestrian people who are inexperienced in the skills of rehabilitating racehorses pick up a news article and read about how inexpensive ex-racehorses are and that just such an ex-racehorse has recently won a Four Star three-day-event somewhere in the world<\/p>\n

And these people engage on a course of action that usually ends in tears.<\/p>\n

Or worse. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

So if you’re an equestrian type of person and you’re thinking of nipping along to Ascot Bloodstock Sales with \u00c2\u00a31,500 in your back pocket in the hopes of coming away with a nice little project to turn an ex-racehorse in to a riding horse…<\/p>\n

Don’t.<\/p>\n

B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

p.s. Soundtrack: Stop Following Me by 16 Millimetre. How excellent has Australia’s best kept secret become? Brilliant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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