by horseluv5829 » Fri Jul 24, 2015 1:02 am
Username; horseluv5829
Show Name; MP Proudly Bay
Barn Name; Bailey
Gender; Stallion
Height; 12 HH
Is he/she blind? Only in one eye (right eye)
Short history on he/she got the scars; Bailey was born at a slaughter house where his mother had been mistreated even up to birth. Birthing him, she died, and the humans did not believe that Bailey would survive either, so the hung him up upside down on a chain. Little did they know, he was alive, just not moving a whole lot in the fear of them. He sat there for about a half hour until the butcher came in and started to give him a cut on his flank. As he sliced into his flesh, the colt flailed around, letting them know that he was very much alive. With a deep cut and no stitching him up, they placed him in a pen with other yearlings who were much older and larger than him. For days he would sit there and starve and dehydrate until one day a large man came in and grabbed him in the midst of the night. He was quickly loaded into the back of a trailer and drove off, not knowing where he was going. When he woke up that next morning, he was in a stall with an older mare. She would nuzzle at him, and would now be known as his nurser mare. She was the only kind face he had seen in his young life so far. He had been scarred up by the butcher and other colts at the slaughter house and she saw him as one of her own. He nursed her until she was too old and died off, but by this time, he was eating fodder and was ready for training. The humans may have been nice when he was a foal, but as a weanling, they were abusive and harsh on him. They would force a bridle on his head way too early and leave sores in his mouth. The crop they would use on him to pull the cart was cutting into his skin. Each night his back would ache and the load would get heavier by day. By the time he was a young stud, they decided he was a good breeding stock. He was forced onto mares, at least eight a day, to produce "strong" foals like him. Bailey did not know how long he could keep up with the demands, which really scared him. One day, he was so worn out that he refused to breed a mare that the mare's owner had paid a lot of money for, so the whipped him and worked him so hard the next day, he could not get up the next morning. The next morning, the man came in and forced him up, giving him an injection of steroids to wake him up. With the more energy the steroids gave him, he was put into a harness and pulled a cart heavy enough for two horses. The shaft on the cart broke, however, and left a deep gash in his leg. He would never be able to be used for the cart again, so these owners had decided to sell him. The next owners were no better as he was used as a saddle horse. They would put chains on his hooves so that he would lift up his hooves and stand him on extremely hot pavement that made him lift his hooves so that the pain would leave. His fetlocks were completely scarred and he would forever now have a limp from their intensity. The show results, according to Bailey's owners, were not good enough, so he had to be sold...again. From there he went from owner to owner, some a bit better than others, and eventually lost the sight in his right eye after testing for eye drops in a lab. Hopefully his new owners would treat him better and gain his trust, because so many had let him down before and left him with scars that would forever remind him of their mistreatment...

