probably bad_riding but whatever

[soulhorse]

This weekend we were bored at the carriage stand so I decided to get on Mikey, the 19 hand Percheron I drive...



He's so freaking big.


I'm rocking my new North Face jacket that was veryvery expensive, even though it was half off 'cause I bought it over the summer. I really like it though.


Driving Mikey into the city


haha. People ask all the time if they can ride on the horse instead of in the carriage. Nope, only I get to do that. :P

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_acerbusangelus/]

haha! wow Fergie sounds...fun. The last horse I drove at the old company, Charlie, was spooky, and he was supposed to be the "advanced" horse or whatever, but after driving Mikey, he was a joke. Charlie's spooks were super predictable. He just threw up his head and danced a little when the duck tours went by, sometimes darted to the right. Pshaw. I don't think any of the drivers at my last company could drive Mikey, 'cause all their horses are 30+ years old and have been working in Boston for over 20 years. NOTHING spooks those guys, not even parade floats going over their heads. I still love my Mikey though, silly as he is.

[candysgirl.livejournal.com]

Fergie was interesting to drive, that's for sure. It was about like dealing with Mika when I first got him before he learned manners and got gelded... She's doing a lot better these days, but yeah for a while she was certainly interesting.

Mikey sounds fun!

That's quite old! Ours all retire at 20 no matter what. Then they either go home with a driver or live out their lives on the company's farm.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_acerbusangelus/]

Yeah, it's really excessively old. I no longer work for that company, I was basically laid off when I spoke up about (among other things) the fact that three of their horses that work 50+ hours a week on the streets are over the age of 30. I feel like they deserve a nice retirement after putting in 20 years in the city, especially since one of them has been dead lame for over 2 years. Ugh. That's really awesome that the horses at your company get the nice forever homes that they deserve for retirement.