The Senior Horse

Welcome to "Refined Equine".  This is the first entry about my one big passion - horses.  Maybe it's your passion, too.

Since I've been dealing with a senior horse for the past 12 years (she's 31 now, got her when she was 19), beginning this blog with something about senior horses seems appropriate.  Make that inevitable.

She's an Arab, part Egyptian I believe, and still stunning.  Still proud... still "alpha"... still beautiful.  She'll probably be this way when she's laid in the ground.  It makes my day just seeing her still able to wonder the pasture; grazing, dozing, bossing the pony, and demanding her food.

This time last year, it didn't look like she'd be here for another summer.  No, it looked like she was a gone'er.  Impossibly, she's still here, looking better than she has in years, except for that plate on her foot.  It'll be on her for probably another 6 months, maybe longer...

So, what's with the plate, you say?  We'll get to that.