Floating Shorts...

One of the things one of my previous boses always said to me was that if you need to get a job done properly, make sure that you get the right tool for the job and dont waste your time with second quality.

I am certainly glad that I did learn that lesson as we wanted to float Shorts to Paul Moody at Allora so that she could begin the next stage of her life, being broken in. Both Evan and I realised that we needed some professional help with Shorts as she is a very head strong young lady and would certainly freak out being loaded into a horse transport for the first time.

Today saw young Joseph go off to his new owner and while Raol from Equine Answers Horse Transport was picking him up, we realised it was a good opportunity to get a real horseman to help get Shorts onto the transport. Young Jo just walked on like a good boy. However, we were not confident that Shorts would do the same thing and why should she when she had never seen or been any where near a horse transport?

Raol is something special with horses and he taught Shorts in the short time that it took to get her on the float not to be frightened of being transported. The "oneness" that Raol has with horses never ceases to amaze me.

Not only did he get her on the float without any major issues, but he then unloaded her and taught her about walking off. The second time she went to walk on the float she did it like a pro and was very calm about her forthcoming journey.

Sorry, but there are not alot of trasports around like Equine Answers as a lot of the drivers dont have a clue about how to load the youngsters. I was very impressed and will be doing the same thing for Lenny and Jake and for Maxwell when he goes to Paul's next year.

Raol certainly impressed us.

Im going to miss that Shortpants around the place.... but I know that she is in good hands.

Helen.

State of the art Horse Transport, fitted with cctv, special matting etc.

"Where are we going?"

"I don't think I like this game... and on an empty stomach!"



"Bloody hell, what's this??"

"Maybe its not so scary?" Shortpants not sure whats happening ... but not behaving badly - Raol was very good with her and she responded accordingly.



Shorts having a look around before taking the final steps

First go up the ramp and Raol wanted Shorts to have a little look around before teaching her how to walk down the ramp

"Down we go..."

On the approach for a second turn at being loaded.


On her second go at being loaded, she realised that there were no scary monsters up the ramp and loaded like a pro.

After being loaded twice, and Shorts realising that it wasnt going to hurt her, Raol secured her in her bay for the short trip to Paul Moodys at Allora