Vale Woody
Woody
It is with great sadness that we had to say good-bye to Woody this year. Pegasus founder, Bid Williams, wrote a lovely memorial to honour him:
"The whole Pegasus community is saddened today by our need to say good-bye to Woody – valued by his friends in the Pegasus herd; loved by the riders whose lives he enriched; befriended by the helpers who worked to make his life, and their own lives, better for having been entwined.
Woody deserved the best we could give him, and the best was quick relief from the pain of a twisted bowel.
Two vets ran tests and concluded that calm and quick euthanasia was the kindest course.
And so it was.
He remains with us as a memory of a good friend, patient and kind, helping many riders to greater self-confidence, physical and emotional stimulus and pleasure, and to a growing empathy and understanding between horse and rider.
We ask the help of parents who best know how to comfort their children who were his riders and his friends.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to those who helped to secure him for Pegasus, and of course to generous volunteers who worked in classes and in stables, and many other supporting roles.
From us all, vale Woody."
"The whole Pegasus community is saddened today by our need to say good-bye to Woody – valued by his friends in the Pegasus herd; loved by the riders whose lives he enriched; befriended by the helpers who worked to make his life, and their own lives, better for having been entwined.
Woody deserved the best we could give him, and the best was quick relief from the pain of a twisted bowel.
Two vets ran tests and concluded that calm and quick euthanasia was the kindest course.
And so it was.
He remains with us as a memory of a good friend, patient and kind, helping many riders to greater self-confidence, physical and emotional stimulus and pleasure, and to a growing empathy and understanding between horse and rider.
We ask the help of parents who best know how to comfort their children who were his riders and his friends.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to those who helped to secure him for Pegasus, and of course to generous volunteers who worked in classes and in stables, and many other supporting roles.
From us all, vale Woody."