CALLING ALL MEN !! SAY NO TO HORSES

Before you marry - find OUT if your wife is 'horsey'
and no circumstances ever let your Daughter near a Pony
or you will end up having to ....
Buy a brute for £5,000
buy its tack, saddle, reins, noseband, stirrups, English egg-butt Pelham's, martingales = £1,000
buy riding hat, crop, jodhpurs, boots, and goes knows how much paraphelia of lead ropes, curry combs, sweat bands = £300
You ll have to buy the horse a new Zealand rug - make that rugs - one for winter, one for summer, one for sweating all cost £100+ plus the £20 a month cost to stitch them for every tear on a barbed wire fence = £500
Then the annual costs - paying for its VET insurance £35 per month and pay for wormer and injections at £100 more = £450
inusre your self and third party agianst the horse sitting on a car = £350
rent it grazing at up to £250 a month = £3,000
buy it Hay at £5 a bale a day per horse for up to 6 months = £1,200
buy it feed (Oats, chaff) at £25 a month = £300
you may even pay out for a stable or field shelter another = £8,000
then you'll need a car - + tow bar - capable of pulling a horse box - another £4,000
you need to pay a surly Farrier £75 every six weeks to shoe the damn thing = £650
after all that you'll have to turn out a show jumping Trials and Gymkhanas , wait around for an hour for the horse to walk into the damn trailer, then drive at £25 MPH for 2 hours to get to the god forsaken show ground, pay entrance fee = £50
wait for hours for the 10 minutes your horse is in the ring then you repeat the whole procedure in reverse!

so thats £26,000 and you could have bought a new car for that!
NO MAN NO !!

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