We arrived around 11am at his beautiful new home in the Wiltshire hills and Carats and Herbie started neighing at each other- Herbies eyes almost jumped out of his head when he realised he knew the horse on the trailer! After a very excited snuffle of each other Herbie (with Jenni on the other end of the lead rope) pranced all the way to the field with Myself and Carats following along behind, as always my C took it all in his stride. They had a good canter around, made faces at each other and settled down to eat, as if they had never been apart.
I shed a few tears when it was time to say goodbye but shared some wonderful stories with Jenni about the naughty orange pony and I left smiling, knowing he would be just fine.
He will leave a big hole in my life, and as I sit here and write this the tears start to fall again, he is truly a special horse and we were meant to have each other, if only for a short time.
A large and liquid eye...the swirl of dust around pounding hooves...these, then, are the images that move us.
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