A Good Class of Horse!
I’ve mentioned Vague Shot a couple of times in the last week or so, as an exmple to us all on how to cope with the current weather.
He’s actually a pure English thoroughbred, with no trace of suspect American blood. I say suspect, as because they run on drugs over there you don’t know how good they actually are!
He’s also the best and most comfortable horse I’ve ever ridden. He was no flighty horse who’d spook at a heavy lorry, but one who’d pick his way past, whilst giving the driver a stare, that said. if you touch me, your cab will be full of horse-shoe-sized holes. But no-one ever touched him.
But then he’s in that class of horse that old Suffolk horsemen say would have been good enough to fight German tanks with grenades, if they’d ever invaded in the Second World War. The Poles did it, by attacking the tank from several different directions at once. The theory was that one would get through and get a grenade on the tracks or even inside. I’ve heard from several Suffolk sources, that some were prepared to do that. They would have been a lot braver than me. But then you hear all sorts of tales, including one about burning all copies of the Geneva Convention and not abiding with its provisions. Suffolk has a lot of strong trees!
True Suffolk people may well have Iceni DNA in their genes and we all know what Boadica did to invaders.
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