The dream of someday owning a horse was helped along with the TV shows of Bonanza, Roy Rogers and others. How many of us watched National Velvet and imagined being Velvet. Dreaming of Black Beauty, The Black Stallion, wanting to have that special relationship with a horse. Holding onto the mane, speeding thru the woods in a full gallop not falling off) were all part of the dream.
I am no longer dreaming and sometimes I have to pinch myself. I have that Black Stallion,
his name is Tysen. Tysen in a purebred Friesian Stallion. A Friesian originated in Friesland, Netherlands. At one point they were almost extinct. During the Middle Ages the knights rode them. There are stories of them standing over their fallen owner striking with their legs, rearing, fighting to protect their fallen owner. They are kind and beautiful. Mel Gibson rode a Friesian in Braveheart.
Our Tysen is all of this and more. He likes to play and run along the fence with you. He takes his feed bowl and throws it over the fence. He has fathered 9 foals at Lost Creek and they are all magnificent like their daddy. I will tell more about Tysen as time goes on.
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