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Meet Our Newest Recruit
KINGSTON
Kingston joins us from the Metropolitan Police, he is a good looking 16h dark bay, 9 year old Irish Sports Horse. Kingston is unusually small for a Police horse and fine boned, but he definitely looks the part when he is all dressed up and ready to go on Patrol.
Kingston unfortunately had to retire early from the police due to his fear of being ridden, although he had many medical checks to find out what the problem was, nothing was found to be medically wrong with him but because he constantly threw his rider off everytime he was saddled up the Police decided that the best thing for him was to retire.
When he arrived at the Sanctuary he was very nervous but after a few days of realising that he wasn't expected to work he settled in and made friends with the other boys.
After a few weeks, the farrier visited and after a thorough check, it seems that poor Kingston has a condition called Ring Bone which affects his front legs, this is what probably made Kingston the way he is and everytime someone sat on Kingston, the pressure of the weight would transfer to his legs causing him terrible pain, which is why his immediate reaction is to throw the rider off his back.
Kingston is a lovely kind horse, he is very friendly and loves to be pampered and groomed, he could stand around all day being brushed. Kingston has made good friends with all the other retired Police horses but his partners in crime are Eden and Clifton.
These three together caused all sorts of problems recently when they decided that they would take themselves off for a little walk, panic soon set in when it was realised they were missing from their field and a phone call from a local lady confirmed that they were causually making their way to the village. Everyone set off to find them and after a couple of hours and no sign of the horses it was decided that the best thing was to go back and start ringing around, but when everyone got back they discovered that Eden, Clifton and Kingston had put themselves back into the field and were happily munching away on their hay.