Shetland pony Peanut gets fantasy pink castle as stable

“Pink and horses don’t go,” my old instructor used to snarl, as she tore another spangled silk from the crash hat of a trembling child.

She would have met her match in Susie Ross.

The five-year-old from Inverness has just installed her Shetland mare, Peanut, in this shocking pink creation.

Susie’s mother Louise told H&H: “She’d been badgering her dad all summer and he finally broke down.”

Peanut’s “fantasy castle” is a far cry from the sheep pen in which she spent last winter.

“Susie wanted either a four-poster bed or a castle – I had to explain that Peanut couldn’t get into a bed,” said Louise. “Her friends all want one now – it’s become a bit of a problem.”

But there’s no rest for dad Davey. Susie now wants the same treatment for her bedroom.

This news story was first published in the current issue of Horse & Hound (29 September, 2011)

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