"Mum, I want a horse!"
Always the same answer… even so one day, the adventure began!
Everything started by a passion for horses.
I learnt horse rinding in a poney club then, later, in the equestrian farm of Encrouchet accompagnied by Emma and Rachel. Rachel had 2 young mares, Kissia et Prima, and one fine day, Lucile (Rachel's mum)decide te sell Prima to Emma. That was the dremt occasion: we then started of looking for a horse for me!
The first mare we saw was an enormus selle-française alezane called Hi-Fi. I bought a second hand saddle from her owner in Brax's car boot sale in 2001( for 10£!) and he then offered me to come and see his mare for sale. It was not much and certainly not the horse of my dreams but i did not want to let this chance pass by. Soon after I went to see Bonecas, a bai portugaise mare.
So we bought Boneca and placed her at Bonrepos-sur-Aussonelle for a couple of weeks. Unfortunatly, not enough exercise and to much to eat transformed her into a time bomb. It was necessary to make her canter for half an hour to tire her out before being able to ride her without getting kick off.
We committed an error by buying this horse. The second error was to have chosen a portuguese one.this meant that not every should ride her and certainly not some one with little experience or from a horse riding club with calm horses.
After having tried to sell her without succes, we went to see a horse merchant in Pibra, and after having mounted her ashored us that she was nt event worth a fork.
We finally kept Boneca and I persevered. I was finally able to ride her and controle her but only when she wanted!
Soon after, I passed my Baccalaureat with a good grade and as a reward I was promise a foal from Boneca. The stallion was a magnificent spanish grey horse called Llavero (key-ring in spanish).
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