Rags and Magic

Rags and Magic are at my trainer’s place tonight. Jack and I decided we could not render the old field horse safe in a reasonable amount of time before letting them back in. In addition, it will be much easier getting in and out of the old field for cleanup with the horses gone since the drive to the old field leads through the new field.

Rags was quite worried when I haltered him and Magic. He may have felt that we were going to take another herd mate from him, since he has occasionally observed that herd mates vanish after the trailer gets hooked up to the truck. Magic is the archetype of the easy to load horse: we used to joke that you didn’t want to get between Magic and an open horse trailer. I loaded Magic first, and Jack had a bit of a fight to hold Rags from immediately following. Magic and Rags will spend the nights together in the mare field, and Rags will come out during the day into a private paddock. He shouldn’t be there long enough to worry about re-introducing him into the gelding field. Rags used to live at my trainer’s barn almost a decade ago, and has gone back for occasional short stays. Magic lived there for over half her life, so this is old home week for her.