15 things you can only say in the horseworld
You know you’ve been spending too much time with your horsey friends when you forget to clarify in normal conversation that your love of thrusters, whips and spurs is all in relation to horses…
1. You can’t beat 16 hands between your legs
2. I love the black hairies
3. I was very well mounted last Saturday
4. You have to get your leg on
5. I had to grip with my knees in case I fell off
6. I’ve got a big coloured chap
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7. It’s better with a whip and spurs
8. I put him out for an hour and he blew up
9. He had a bad attitude, so we castrated him
10. I like going under that judge!
11. If he’s naughty, grab his upper lip tightly
12. I was listening to his gut last night
13. He’s had 64 babies!
14. He’s a real thruster
15. The mother is black, the father’s white and the baby’s black with white spots
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Nicola was one of H&H’s longest serving staff members and knows her Section Ds from her Section As. Over the years she has written six horse books and articles on topics as diverse as legendary showing producers and the best hipflask tipples. Nicola is our chief sub editor, point-to-point and showing editor. Nicola left Horse & Hound for pastures news in 2014.