Dick Roberts
Well it saddens me to say, but the vet is coming tomorrow to send dads old horse Tally to join him once again. Poor old fellas hips and joints have finally given in. If you have any photos of Dad and Tally, please share and tag us in.
Slim said it best with this:
Gaily in front of the stockwhip
The horses come galloping home
Leaping and bucking and playing
With sides all a lather of foam
But painfully, slowly behind them
With head to the crack of the fall
And trying so gamely to follow
Comes limping the pearl of them all
He is stumbling and stiff in the shoulder
And splints from the hoof to the knee
But never a horse on the station
Has half such a spirit as he
Give these all the boast of their breeding
These pets of the paddock and stall
But ten years ago not their proudest
Could live with the pearl of them all
Here hold him out there by the yard wing
And don’t let him know by a sign
Turn his head to you, mate, just a little
‘Cause, I can’t bear his eyes to meet mine
Oh stand still, old boy, just for a moment
These tears, how they blind as they fall
Now, God help my hand to be steady
And goodbye to the pearl of them all
Nelle's journey 