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Description Me and My rescue stb. And to think he was going to the doggers coz of his viscous nature! Just shows a little bit of trust and understanding can go a long way. <3 Put trust in them and they will put trust in you. Trust cant work one way.

For this competition [link] (Horses Of The World)

Facts for contest

Breed - He is a recused Standarbred.

Location - Australia

Cultural - Normally used for harness racing, most dont have to greater lives whilst in that industry in the experience i have and what i have seen.

Why is this breed important to me? Because its so labeled. Labeled as they cant jump, canter, do dressage, make eventers etc when all that is false, i have seen them do all of those things.

Also special to me as he was to end up having the same fate most do at the slaughter house after a life of mistreatment and being shipped from home to home. He became vicious and rebelled against people and learnt they dont hit him or hurt him when he does that.

He was going of to the doggers as he was vicious, unbroken, nasty, kicked, bites, not catchable etc.

A few people went out to see if they could work with him, they all failed and got attacked. I went out and with the Natural Horsemanship i do within 2 hours he was a different horse. I even had him with a saddle on and a person laying over his back just to prove you can do nearly anything if you understand things from the horses side.

As you can see i trust him completely and he trusts me. The breed is wrongly labeled here and we will prove that its is labeled wrong every step of the way and that every horse has a story and may just need that second chance to tell it.
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Comments: 7

RGooders [2013-07-02 19:30:57 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful photo and a beautiful ending

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MetalMooCow [2012-04-23 21:45:55 +0000 UTC]

I had a similar time with my Throughbred, beaten to a pulp because he raced his heart out, wasn't what they wanted so came over from ireland to be a show jumper and then got confused when he was pointed at a 3ft upright coloured pole fence instead of a 6 1/2 ft hedge after 6 years of racing...
He's always been labeled as a 'typical throughbred' hot headed, flighty, hard to handle when really he was scared to death because his whole world was turned upside down.
Now he's calm as can be (granted can be a complete spooky idiot for no reason) and even though he can't be ridden anymore because of an injury he's still with me just because his personality has finally been allowed to come through.

It makes me feel better that there are others that do give 'difficult' horses a second chance because 90% of them are the most wonderful creatures you could ever own and just haven't had the chance to show their true colours.

Hope you have many great years together as you obviosly have a great bond

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Hazelnut-Eyes [2012-04-10 20:42:46 +0000 UTC]

Nice story (And a gorgeous horse!)

Lots of morals there.
Thanks for sharing this, and I the picture by the way n_n

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BlueBird-Graphics In reply to Hazelnut-Eyes [2012-04-10 23:03:56 +0000 UTC]

Hehe thanks!

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luckydesigns [2012-03-25 14:39:23 +0000 UTC]

This is awesome! <3

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BlueBird-Graphics In reply to luckydesigns [2012-04-10 23:04:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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luckydesigns In reply to BlueBird-Graphics [2012-04-14 13:42:17 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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