Other "Very Old" Horses

Other "Very Old" Horses LIVESTOCK Horses/Mules 24-5-24 Here are two other old horses. "Flicka", a black gelding near Myakka City, Florida, is 50 years old. Flicka's current owner, 15-year-old Sara Spanial, has provided him with tender-loving care since she was six years old. Spanials bought the gelding from a disbanded therapeutic riding program where he had been for seven years, and prior to that, he was used to wrangle cattle on a central Florida ranch for 37 years. Spanials says that, although her beloved Flicka shows many signs of advanced age (arthritis, poor teeth, sagging back), he still has a gleam in his eye, a shiny coat, and still romps with the family's other horses when feeling frisky. In Canada, "Peaches," a 13.3 hand unpapered Quarter Horse, also has a colorful past. His current owner, Jane Morrow of Camp Creek, Alberta, says her brother-in-law, Trevor Helmig, bought him in the fall of 1979 from two cowboys at Smokey Lake, Alberta, who owned him in partnership. At that time, Peaches was thought to be 18. He originally came to Canada in a trailer load of calf-roping horses brought from Oklahoma to Alberta in the spring of 1977. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Sara Spanial, 34682 Singletray Road, Myakka City, Florida, 34251 (ph 941 322-1021); E-mail: LdyStetsonoftheN@aol.com; Website: www.geocities.com/saras/flicka.html); or Jane Morrow, Box 11, Camp Creek, Alberta T0G 0L0 Canada (ph 780 674-2335).

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