While we were finishing up, I remarked that Tristan's face was zoned out in way that made me remark that he was on a sunny beach somewhere, sipping a fruity drink with an umbrella in it - off in his happy place, basically, ignoring the idiots around him.
The barn manager happened to be walking by. "No way," she said. "He's not a fruity drink horse. But what would he be drinking?"
"Straight vodka," was my prompt (and not terribly kind) response.
"Something a little bit classier, but also sassy," the barn manager suggested. "Whisky, or scotch?"
"Whiskey sour!" I hit on immediately.
That was an instant success. Barn manager said that when he's behaving in a lesson, using his hind end and all packaged together, he's a whiskey sour in a nice tumbler etched with his monogram. When he's bolting hell bent for leather and running into the curb chain on his kimberwicke, he's poured out the kind of whiskey you need the sour mix to disguise, and bolting it down out of a red solo cup.
We've decided that naming drinks for all the horses in the barn will make an excellent future game for long winter days.
So now I put it to you all.
If your horse were an alcoholic drink, what would it be?
I'll play this game :P Going to need to spend some time thinking about it
ReplyDeleteOhhh this could be excellent. I need to think on mine for a bit haha.
ReplyDeleteGinger's would be a Cosmo, because she's the horsey equivalent of the ladies I know who still drink them. Bridget? Hmmm, probably something understated and serious, but not fancy or trendy. The kind where you have one by the fireplace and then head off to sleep.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! I am still learning my new horse but maybe I can think of past horses.
ReplyDeleteSuper cute idea. I think Simon might be something classic like a Manhattan, but I hate whiskey so maybe that doesn't work!
ReplyDeletehaha love it!
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