the one about a 6 year old mare that has been that has been masquerading as a 17 year old broodmare for the last 2 years? No? Let me tell you the story of Queenie .... aka Queen of Ziar .... aka Why For Not.
2 years ago we received 5 horses here to Massie Lodge who were coming here for 2 reasons.... 1) they needed a new home as the previous home had no feed and 2) to be sold on.
When they all came off the truck they were all pretty light on and bony, especially the old mare who dribbled and had a large abcess forming on her face. They were all pretty wormy ... we were both pretty upset when we saw them all. However, we put them all in one of the paddocks down the back which was full of good picking and had a nice full dam and they pretty much enjoyed themselves and kept their heads down munching away at the grass.
Then we noticed that the old girl (who was sent to us as Queen of Ziar, so we called her Queenie) had an abcess forming on her face and brought her up and started dressing the abcess and feeding her up to get some condition on her. She really was in a bad state... we kept her in the hospital paddock and felt that her time left on this earth was limited.
Time went on and we sold the 2 young fillies (one of whom was actually out of Queenie) and we sold the 11 year old Gelding (Tatra Avenue) to a nice young girl from Warwick who fell in love with him as soon as she saw him.
So, we kept the 2 grey mares together and to cut a long story short, they are very happy together, very rounded and content.
Last Saturday we get a call from a Showie who wanted to come out and see Southern.... fine... she came out and they were both amazed at how stunning Queenie was and were thinking that they might take her as well and use her over their Warmblood Stallion. Ok, no problems ... so off they went and were going to take a look at the pedigrees and get back to us if they were interested.
Yesterday we received a call from the prospective buyers wanting to know who the heck was the grey mare as Queen of Ziar was a chestnut mare????
Ok, lets just take some time out here and rewind time ... say about 6 months.
We get a call from the owners asking us to sell his mare, Why For Not. Ok, we can do that... where is the mare located we ask? Um, the owner didnt know. So, we took Why For Not off the market until the owner could locate her.
Ok, back to the present! Down the back we go armed with paper and pen ..... wondering who the hell the grey mare is down the back with Southern!
Ok.... so Queenie isnt a broken down old mare after all.... she is Why For Not... who won 2 races at Ballina. AND.... she isnt 17/18 she is only 6 (which explains why she has been seen bolting around the paddock at lightning speed (most unlike ladies of an older vintage).
So if Queenie is Why For Not..... where is Queen of Ziar?
............ Did you hear the one about the horse trainer who sold 140% of a racehorse to his owners? Another story for another day........
Helen.
2 years ago we received 5 horses here to Massie Lodge who were coming here for 2 reasons.... 1) they needed a new home as the previous home had no feed and 2) to be sold on.
When they all came off the truck they were all pretty light on and bony, especially the old mare who dribbled and had a large abcess forming on her face. They were all pretty wormy ... we were both pretty upset when we saw them all. However, we put them all in one of the paddocks down the back which was full of good picking and had a nice full dam and they pretty much enjoyed themselves and kept their heads down munching away at the grass.
Then we noticed that the old girl (who was sent to us as Queen of Ziar, so we called her Queenie) had an abcess forming on her face and brought her up and started dressing the abcess and feeding her up to get some condition on her. She really was in a bad state... we kept her in the hospital paddock and felt that her time left on this earth was limited.
Time went on and we sold the 2 young fillies (one of whom was actually out of Queenie) and we sold the 11 year old Gelding (Tatra Avenue) to a nice young girl from Warwick who fell in love with him as soon as she saw him.
So, we kept the 2 grey mares together and to cut a long story short, they are very happy together, very rounded and content.
Last Saturday we get a call from a Showie who wanted to come out and see Southern.... fine... she came out and they were both amazed at how stunning Queenie was and were thinking that they might take her as well and use her over their Warmblood Stallion. Ok, no problems ... so off they went and were going to take a look at the pedigrees and get back to us if they were interested.
Yesterday we received a call from the prospective buyers wanting to know who the heck was the grey mare as Queen of Ziar was a chestnut mare????
Ok, lets just take some time out here and rewind time ... say about 6 months.
We get a call from the owners asking us to sell his mare, Why For Not. Ok, we can do that... where is the mare located we ask? Um, the owner didnt know. So, we took Why For Not off the market until the owner could locate her.
Ok, back to the present! Down the back we go armed with paper and pen ..... wondering who the hell the grey mare is down the back with Southern!
Ok.... so Queenie isnt a broken down old mare after all.... she is Why For Not... who won 2 races at Ballina. AND.... she isnt 17/18 she is only 6 (which explains why she has been seen bolting around the paddock at lightning speed (most unlike ladies of an older vintage).
So if Queenie is Why For Not..... where is Queen of Ziar?
............ Did you hear the one about the horse trainer who sold 140% of a racehorse to his owners? Another story for another day........
Helen.
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Hmmm, haven't we had the same kind of story about a valuable stallion sent to WA? It certainly makes one wonder if the original place knew their horses. Anyway, the Queenie we met yonks ago certainly didn't look and act like a 6 year old. Far more like a 17 y.o. in fact.
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