life of a horse by kindy mined, caley paters, paterson lalaburty, mycayla lee (reading like a writer txt) 📕

Sophie is a gray quarab mare who is about 6 years old. She is rather green right now and it is my responsibility to train her; since she is my horse. At the moment we are working with her picking up her hooves and she is doing beautifully. She has finally started letting me hold them up and pick them out. They're so long because last time the farrier came it was impossible for her to do anything. Now, however, I have been working constantly with my beautiful girl and she's finally ready for the farrier. I'm so proud!! We rescued Sophie in 2011 from starvation and she has filled in so amazingly.

I whinnied in fear, as the snake-like things held my hoofs tighter. My ankles burned, like as if I was bitten, or something. I struggled to get up, but the snake things held me down. I heard a whinny, it wasn't me, it was from another horse. I lifted my head up and tried to find the source of the whinny, but it was pitch black, so I couldn't see a thing. Suddenly, I felt faint. I felt like I was about to pass out. My eyes slowly closed, and everything went black.***************Everything was pitch black. There was an eerie silence. I felt like I was floating. In the air. I felt a sudden wave of comfort. Had I died? Am I in heaven? I floated in that unknown place I called "heaven" for what felt like hours. I felt very comfortable, I wanted it to last forever. But unfortunately, it didn't. I was woken up with quick flash of pain. I was bearable. It just felt like something nipped me. I opened my eyes. A beautiful dark horse stood looking down at me, and I could tell they were worried. I lifted up my head, staring up at them. We were staring at each other for what seemed like hours, until the horse shook their head and walked away. I down at my legs. They weren't tied anymore. I gathered my legs up under me, and struggled to get up. All of my legs were sore. If I put even just a little bit of pressure on them, they hurt. But anyway, I still managed to stand up. I looked around, legs shaking like a newborn foal. I saw bars. Metal bars. Red bars. Everywhere. I saw humans. Wild-eyed humans. With those horrifying snake-like things. The same ones that tied me up. I reared up in rear when one of the humans looked at me . I snorted and turned away. I turned my head looking back at the human. He was laughing, pointing at me. I trotted away, wanting to never see a human again.

As I woke up the next morning my throat was parched and my stomach was rumbling. I went to walk over to the water trough and then to start eating the fresh spring grass, but then remembered everything that had happened in the past twelve hours.The men said that they would come back the next day for us and I was, for the first time in my life, scared.Scarlet and Belle slowly stirred around before waking up with a start. Scarlet let out a nervous nicker and Belle shifted uneasily.'Where are we?' Scarlet snorted.'No idea, but don't like it,' Belle huffed back.Suddenly Belle's ears snapped right back and she let out a menacing snort.The men had come out.One of the men chuckled at Belle- It was a loud, dry, mean laugh. 'Easy tiger, I'm not going to hurt you if you behave.'There was four of them and they all were about the same size. They were big, no doubt about that. The one who had laughed seemed to be the one in charge of the others.'Bob, tie up the paint, Aaron, get the chestnut. Bill, go inside and get the equipment. I'll tackle the grey.'As bob, Aaron and the other man came inside, we had nowhere to move. If we were in the paddock I would surely have run.He whipped the leadrope onto my halter before doing my halter up tighter than it had been all night. I had never worn a halter but was definite that they weren't meant to be this tight.He yanked me out of the yard, holding me in a death grip. As soon as we got out of the yard I tried to run, but he caught me, pulling me to a stop before picking up a stick from the ground and hitting me. I realed back, dizzy from the blow. He took advantage of my lack of fight and tied me to a pole. Now I couldn't move my head. Belle and Scarlet were tied as well. Bill came back holding a bag that looked heavy.'Here you go Mike,' he said, talking to the boss.'Put it there,' Mike indicated. 'Ok, now these horses need to learn some ground manners, but not today. We'll ride 'em today. We'll take the chestnut first, then the paint and finally the dappled grey.'He walked over and looked at us one by one. 'All of 'em have good breeding for eventers. TOo bad this one's coloured and won't sell for as much.' He kicked out at Belle, catching her on her flank. She fliched and kicked back.'Ok- chesnut, paint, grey. Let's go!'First Scarlet was led away, then Belle. I was left on my own, waiting for my fate to begin....BrontéAfter I disembarked from the flight (with the arguing couple deciding to but striped curtains instead) and collected my luggage, I heard a shout yelling out my name.'Bronté! Bronté! Over here!' I turned and saw what could only be my uncle, Peter. We had never seen each other before, he was like my second or third uncle or something like that. He hd light brown hair, blue eyes and tanned skin. He was tall. 'Hi,' I said awkwardly. Really Bronté? You're first time meeting you're uncle and you come up with "hi"?!I roll my bags over to the car, a dusty holden ute. When we get going, Uncle Peter attempts some conversation 'You know that when you're in Melbourne, the weather is unpredictable..... blah blah blah.' I tune out, thinking back longingly to the days in South Africa, mucking around on the beach with Hollie and the horses, going to horse comps...'Isn't that right Hollie?' my uncle cuts in. I have no idea what his been talking about, so I just nod mutely. He rambles on and on, talking about this and that. he hasn't talked about any horses. Maybe it was my other aunt and uncle who have the horse farm. Yeah, that definitely must be it, he hasn't mentioned anything. Good. I never want to see another horse again. Slowly, I doze off.I wake up when we're turning off a road, onto a dirt track.'We live on a mountain. uncle Peter says, 'there's a beach on the other side. The lands great for walking and stuff.' The more he talks, the more convinced I am that there is no horses here. 'Another family lives here as well; there's anoter mountain over that side,' he points where it is, 'We work together.'it is dark and when we finally stop, the clock reads 11:30. I can't see the house very well. 'Everyone will be asleep because school's tomorrow.' uncle Peter whispers, unlocking the house. He takes me up to the very top of the house and shows me my room. To tired to do anything, I collapse onto the bed and drift straight off to sleep.A couple hours later, a horse neighing stirs me from my slumber.

 My alarm had just woke me up, the loud beeping noise also woke my mother,brother and sister. I glanced at the clock while I rose out of bed, yawning, I muttered "6 am, again.." I hated getting up at this time, but I knew that seeing my baby boy would be worth it. I got up and slipped on some jodhpurs and a hoodie, then walked to the window. Looking into the sunrise, I started brushing my hair. I could hear my family getting up. I walked to my door, and went downstairs. I made some breakfast for my mum, brother and sister. I sat down to eat when they came downstairs, "Hurry up and eat! We've got to get to the yard!" I always loved hearing my sister saying that, she loved horses and was only 5. We started to eat, as always, my little sister Ellie finished first, then me, then mum then my brother, we all rode, and we all had our own horses, apart from Ellie who rode my horse. We had finally done and was sat in the car waiting to get to the yard. On the way there, I herd Ellie mutter something, "What was that Ellie?" I asked her, looking back at the back seat, "When will I get my horse?" She asked.I looked at my mum who winked at me, "Soon." I smiled, we were getting her a horse for her 6th birthday next month. We pulled up and got out, I walked around to the side to get Ellie. I walked with