not fair to leave it sitting? - Horsetopia Forum

Marguerite Henry,who wrote "Misty of Chincoteague" also wrote a short story about a horse that refused to retire. I think it was called "The Routine of Happiness".

The "oldest horse in America", the Florida Cracker gelding named Flicka, was a cow horse, and he went with the cowboys to bring the cows in, doing his job without a rider. If you had tried to pen him or tie him up, he'd have busted loose or laid down and died.

I've bought/been given a couple of those "too good to be sitting around" horses, and they've been good ones.

My good TWH gelding, that I rode for 19 years had been standing in a pasture for several years when I got him, and he loved to work, whether it be showing, trail riding, or working cows. In his final years, if we took any of the other horses out to ride, he not only objected vocally and by running the fence, he'd then beat them up when we turned them back in with him!

Horses have work ethics like people. Some are lazy, some are hyper-industrious. I've had both, and they can both be hard to deal with!

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