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In Memory - "Tricky Ricky" 

Garland Farm's FEI Schoolmaster

R.I.P. - June 2010

His body gave out but his spirit never waivered. He showed his panache, his chutzpa to the end. He needed a chain on his nose to lead him out of his stall. He stopped and pooped right on X as we crossed the arena to head to his final resting place in the back of the pasture. Now his spirit is free, released from his old and broken down body. No more pain, no more lameness, no more funny gaits or circles because his hind end just didn’t want to cooperate any more. No more sweltering Georgia summers and pesky flies and fly masks. No more blankets and turnout sheets in the cold wet Georgia winters. No more pressure sore on his hip from resting up against his stall walls. No more pain for his human family having to coax him out of his stall to go out to the pasture every day. No more pain for his human family watching him in the pasture from a bad angle where you could see how thin he was and how he stood splayed like a sawhorse in order to graze. He had a long productive life – 35 years. He was a FEI show horse, then a FEI school master, finally a retiree. And now, he is truly free, free from his pain, free from the bondages of earth, happy to be with those who have gone before him. Rest in peace, Ricky. You will be missed.

Rest In Peace, Ricky.

 

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