Totally heartbroken. Still can’t believe it’s happened.

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Thanks Chris. She meant so much to us, one of the family and she was so smart, so emotionally intelligent. More so than many people I’ve come across in life.

No, they can’t. How it has all happened is soul destroying.

He doesn’t know yet really, asking his owner if she’d like our lovely yard owner to show him her body before it’s collected this morning.

Losing our beautiful Big Hoof leaves such a hole in our lives 💔. 11 years of joy and love, we thought we would grow old together but life kept throwing you hurdles and this was just one too much. You were so tired, and you told us that it was enough.

Yes, she laid down on her bad side and not enough room for her to roll to get back up.

Ffs

Well I didn’t want to get bleeped out 😂

My grandfather was in the Bedfordshire Yeomanry and was a horseman though the war. From his diary I know where he was at various times, but not what was going on in the war there! He spent quite some time in Palestine and was injured while there.

Absolutely, how wonderful. Thanks for sharing. Incidentally, our Shire horse is called Pip.

Posted this photo yesterday, but this is my grandpa, Tommy, on his army horse, Joey, which he bought at war’s end. Tommy was an artillery officer who loved horses- he got the MC for saving his brigade’s horses in 1918. Difficult to imagine the daily carnage among the animals on the front lines.

Well that’s because it’s a blog article - not a journal article. I did not say it wasn’t in decline, just that it wasn’t as useless as is often purported. Suggest Badsey, Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry 1880–1918 as a place to start. Can rec. articles if you prefer - feel free to msg me.