Video du Jour: Horse reunion

After being separated for over four years, a Thoroughbred sporthorse named Arthur is reunited with the New Forest Pony playmates with whom he spent his youth. Will they remember one another?

The video’s poster, Sue Blagburn, tells their story:

“Do horses remember each other and have emotions?

“On the 14 December 2012 I repurchased Arthur, a horse that I bred but had to sell four-and-a-half years ago. During this period two of Arthur’s playmates from ‘foalhood,’ William who had been with Arthur since they were foals, and Harry who arrived as a foal a year later, have stayed with me. We have had a few moves, and Harry and William have shared their lives with many other horses and ponies since spring 2009. Mustons Field, the place in Dorset where I used to live and all my horses and ponies grew up in, has long been sold, and this reunion happened far away in East Sussex in a field William and Harry had only lived in for two weeks, whilst I was studying in this area, so there was nothing familiar. Would Arthur, now age eight-and-a-half, a thoroughbred sporthorse that had spent the last four and a half years in a high class private competition yard BE eventing, have any memory at all of the two hairy New Forest pony playmates he once shared his youth with? And likewise would William and Harry recognise that little thoroughbred guy who was once their best mate?”

Watch the video to find out!

[Sue Blagburn]

Go Horses.