16 indicators you’re a horse addict

Do any of the next ring a bell? Or do you may have different traits that set you other than non-horse addicts?

1. You’ll be able to solely assume that when others speak about “spare earnings” they’re referring to their “equestrian equipment funds”.

2. Whenever you tread on a nail after the farrier’s go to, you keep away from the physician’s by poulticing your foot, securing it neatly with vetwrap (NB: we don’t suggest this – as an alternative please head straight to your physician’s for a tetanus jab)

3. You’ve been identified to make use of Kaolin as a facemask, and Mane n Tail in lieu of conditioner.

4. You might be by no means with out minor bruises you’ll be able to’t exactly clarify — most likely the work of barn door hinges, wheelbarrow handles and pitchforks.

5. You’re but to see a physio about your sciatica. Your horse, nonetheless, has month-to-month visits from his.

6. No less than considered one of your limbs is about barely humorous — a delicate reminder of a childhood fall (which completely was not the horse’s fault).

7. You could have a dustpan and brush on your horse’s steady, however none in the home.

8. Your equine has 17 rugs in complete. You, in the meantime, have one yard coat that’s no-longer waterproof, and two non-yard coats — each of which have holes within the lining.

9. You fortunately pay £50 to get your horse clipped, however reckon that’s extortion on the hairdressers.

10. Equally, you reckon anybody must be some kind of primadonna to purchase themselves a brand new pair of footwear each different month at £90 a pop. Dobbin, then again, clearly can’t go longer than 5 weeks.

11. If it’s about to hammer it down with rain mid-afternoon, you rush out to get your horse in so he stays dry, whereas you find yourself resembling a drowned rat.

12. Final Valentine’s Day, your beloved purchased you a super-duper wheelbarrow (a present you depend as among the finest you’ve ever acquired).

13. On arrival at a celebration, you’re each buddy’s go-to particular person for reverse-parking their automobile into essentially the most unfeasibly small of areas – they’ve seen you on the helm of that vast lorry.

14. You have a look at your Dorset Cereals and assume: “My horse would love this!”

15. That annoying itch behind your knee, underneath your tights, is definitely a stray piece of hay.

16. You’ll be able to’t keep in mind a time earlier than horses. And you’ll’t think about life with out them.

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H&H editor-in-chief

Sarah has greater than 20 years expertise as an equestrian journalist and editor. She has reported from main championships together with the Europeans and the World Equestrian Video games. She has co-written books on equestrianism together with The Full Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horses & Ponies. Sarah has ridden since childhood, owned horses and ponies for over 25 years, and labored for and educated with Olympic gold medallist occasion rider Leslie Regulation previous to going to college.