POST by FRAN: The One that Got Away

Francesca on Cadburys, Handing Out Invitations to Capital on the Edge Youth Nights

We have five horses; Cadburys, Mexico, Oreo, Midnight, and Cookie. Cadburys and Midnight are both pregnant, and Mexico and Cookie are booked in with the vet to be gelded. Oreo is a small horse that barely moves at all!

Cadburys is a redish brownie colour with a black main and tail. Mexico is also a redish brownie colour but his main and tail are blonde. Oreo is black with small splotches of white all over, her tail and main are black. Midnight is really dark brown with a black main and tail that looks purple in the sunlight. And Cookie is white with black legs.

Grace, Lorenzy’s tall friend, came over to ride horses. So they picked Cadburys and Mexico (Mexico is the smallest horse out of all of them). They saddled up and began to ride. Ten minutes later, after they had ridden around the same avocado tree about twenty times or so, Cadburys started getting mad because she wasn’t eating, so she stopped moving!  

They decided to switch Cadburys for Oreo. Once they were all set up and on the horse I told them that I was going to the corner store on our street and Dad said that we could go really fast and come back and eat. However, when the girls changed the horses they left the paddock (where the horses are kept) gate open, so the horses could walk around the house freely.

Sezni started to open the huge, green gate, which is the entrance to our house, and at that second Midnight came trotting out of the paddock. I was standing at the door and screamed at Sezni, “SHUT THE GATE!!!!” but it was too late! Midnight went trotting out of the gate and made a left turn down to the main road.

I said “get off the horse, I’ll go get her!” I didn’t really say it to a specific person, but Grace hopped down from Mexico and when she did, Yader (a friend from church, who works at our house) jumped onto Mexico and took off in the direction that Midnight had ran off in.

Two minutes later Midnight came whizzing around the corner followed by Mexico and Yader. We couldn’t get the gate open fast enough so Midnight kept running past our house, but this time to the right. I said to lorenzy “get down I’ll go and help him” she got off and I jumped on and whipped her with a twig and guess what happened… NOTHING!!! She didn’t budge!

Dad came outside because of all the noise we were making and he told us to shut the gate. We tried to explain what was happening, but he didn’t listen. We told him that we couldn’t shut the gate so he came over and was about to shut the gate, but at that very second Midnight zoomed by again, followed by Yader and Mexico.

Dad bolted to the house and came back with his motor bike keys, jumped on his bike and rode off down the lane.

Five minutes passed and I started to get worried. I decided to climb up the water tower and look for them. Two more minutes passed and I heard the horn on dad’s bike. I told Lorenzy and Grace to open the gate and stand back. I climbed down and ran to the gate. Dad reached the gate followed by Mexico and Yader. Midnight was being lead by Yader.

I didn’t end up going to the corner store that day (haha). But at least we didn’t lose a horse!