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He is to stay domestic!
Owner: wildhorse027
Equid Name: Distant
Equid Age: 4
Height: 13.3hh
Gender: Male
SHORT story:
I trudged up the footpath of the old country roads. The cars rushed passed my face as I looked over to the other side of the road, where there was many fields, one after each other. They mostly had sheep in them, or cows. One had a lovely old white horse called Smokey who was incredibly friendly. Though one field, the last before the turning into the hockey pitch, was a strange looking horse. I turned to my grandmother was walking beside me and asked to go and see it, she said "Of course, you know that's a Wild Mountain Equid, It's strange to see them domestic, they are mainly wild." I smiled to her and we crossed the road to the field. I began to call the equid over , it took a while, but he came. I fed it grass for a while and soon ran out of nice fresh tall grass so I ran down to the end of the field to get more. The equid followed racing me down the field. I laughed at this as no horse had ever did that I fell in love with the Equid instantly.
I had always went to visited the Equid, as it was always there. It always seemed so Distant from everything, as if part of him was missing. So that's what I decided to name him, since I didn't really know his name, Distant and we still raced each other up and down the field, it was fun for the both of us, he seemed to like it. I traveled there every morning, it was within walking Distance, only three minutes down the road. Though one day, as I was standing at the metal gate of Distant's field an old man stated walking up the track with a purple halter. I continued to stroke distant as he approached. I asked him if it was his horse and he said it was. "He is beautiful," I said quite loudly as the man had said he didn't have great hearing. He also went on and said "Could i sell him to you?" My eyes widened "H-how much?" "550," he replied, it was cheap for a horse but I still could not afford it or have anywhere to put him. I had to refuse it at that moment, but I never forgot it. The man then began to lead him out of the field to where his home was and that was when I asked his name, "Doesn't have one, I just call him boy." The man said and then lead Distant away.
The man had just been taking him to shed behind his home where he would put him back on hay fodder for he had used him for carting so he was put back into the field shortly after. I still visited him, raced him, brought him the odd carrot or apple here and there. But sometime after, Distant had disappeared from the field he was usually in and wasn't there anymore. I wanted to go and knock on the old owners door but, I couldn't bring myself to do it. I was always bored as I just always use to go there but now I had to go.
After quite some months I had given up, I thought he would never be there again and he wasn't. I had been looking in every other field close to the area and he wasn't there either. One day I had left the area to visit some family out in the city, I had gone by the coast road. Returning we went a different way, not by the coast we were more inland. I loved to just stare out the window so that's what I had been doing, we came to a corner and there had been fields on both sides and in that corner field grazed Distant. I stuck my face up against the window and gasped in delight, "Look mum, look there's Distant!" I had told her all about him so she knew how much I had loved him, she slowed the car though there was nowhere to stop so we had to drive on. I sat in the back of the back with I smile across my face, I had found him.
The field had belonged to so farmers. An uncle of mine had knew them and he kept his boat there so when he said he was driving up I asked if I could go with him. He drove me up the lane to the farm and we got out. My uncle and the farm owner, Jim, spoke for a while, me pretending I was interested. Eventually I had worked up the courage to poke in deeper and speak, "This is a lovely farm, what animals do you keep here?" Jim smiled, he loved his farm his pride and joy it was, "Ah we have many many sheep and cows too, dogs , cats horses -" "Horses! I love horses! May I see them?" I asked eagerly "Of course, come on and we will go see them." We all walked down towards the field. He pointed out all of his horse and then came to one more, it was Distant and he came trotting over straight away, "This one is a different breed, we got him a while ago but I haven't payed it much attention, not much you can do with it really..I thought of selling him-" "No!" I cried, "He is lovely, what is his name?" It was Distant to me, "No name yet, but see we need to do much more with our showing horses so we don't have much time to really d-" "I could help! I would love to take care of him!" Jim thought for a moment, "That sounds splendid, since you have agreed to help why don't you name him?" I smiled, "Distant."