http://daughterofthewind.org/the-war-mare/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:59:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://daughterofthewind.org/the-war-mare/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Jenny Lees Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:07:57 +0000 http://daughterofthewind.org/the-war-mare/#comment-158 I have three mares here that I consider very much "war mares" all three are Asil Bahraini mares from The Royal Stud of Bahrain. One summers night it was very warm and calm here in the UK so I left two of these mares Shuwaimeh bint Warda and Kray Mohammedia out in the fields overnight with their young foals. In the morning I could see from my office window what looked like a large mound of fur lying very still in the middle of their field! I quickly counted the two mares and the two foals then ran down to their field so investigate. I found the largest Badger I have ever seen, he was upsidedown on his back stone cold dead. As I looked down at him Shuwaimeh and Kray came over to me and stood very close as they too looked down and sniffed in disgust. I know exactly what had happened, the harmless old Badger obviously had a track across the field which he must have used safely each night before the mares were left in there. My "war mares" had decided he was a danger to their foals and "whack" that was the end of the Badger. I have no doubt that if he had made it across the Bahraini girls fields he would have been perfectly safe in with the Crabbet ladies further on! I don't know how to load up photos but I will send a photo of each of these mares to Edouard. Jenny Lees. I have three mares here that I consider very much “war mares” all three are Asil Bahraini mares from The Royal Stud of Bahrain. One summers night it was very warm and calm here in the UK so I left two of these mares Shuwaimeh bint Warda and Kray Mohammedia out in the fields overnight with their young foals. In the morning I could see from my office window what looked like a large mound of fur lying very still in the middle of their field! I quickly counted the two mares and the two foals then ran down to their field so investigate. I found the largest Badger I have ever seen, he was upsidedown on his back stone cold dead. As I looked down at him Shuwaimeh and Kray came over to me and stood very close as they too looked down and sniffed in disgust. I know exactly what had happened, the harmless old Badger obviously had a track across the field which he must have used safely each night before the mares were left in there. My “war mares” had decided he was a danger to their foals and “whack” that was the end of the Badger. I have no doubt that if he had made it across the Bahraini girls fields he would have been perfectly safe in with the Crabbet ladies further on! I don’t know how to load up photos but I will send a photo of each of these mares to Edouard. Jenny Lees.

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