Aly is a special boy who shares an even more special bond with his owner, Lorelle. Lorelle specialises in re-training racehorses when they have finished their racing careers. Here’s an extract from her website, Re-home Horses, about Aly:
“My next horse and the most important horse I will ever own is Aly. I still own Aly and he is my life. Aly is an unraced thoroughbred and was a very well educated rising 5 yr old when I first brought him. He is now almost 20 yrs old and has had a magnificent life with me. I see Aly as my partner in this endeavor to retrain horses. He helps me by spending time with these young, usually highly strung and worked up babies who have come from a very stressful and intense lifestyle to that of complete calmness and love. Aly is wise and loyal. He constantly helps me with my riding. He is well educated and forces me to ride correctly or he will simply not co-operate!”
Lorelle and Aly have built up an amazing connection over the 15 years they have been together, something that’s immediately obvious when you meet them.
He follows her around, no halter or leadrope, comes when he’s called (sometimes) and generally acts more like a dog than a horse!
Aly looks pretty amazing for a 20 year old horse, don’t you think?
Aly also has a funny side, he’s a real character! We hung out with him for a couple of hours and I got to witness one of his interesting little habits… he’s a licker!
Gotta love the little drool trail coming off his bottom lip here, classic!
Finishing off with my favourite shot of the session.
Horses are right up there with dogs to photograph for me, so if you have a gorgeous horse you want some relaxed, casual non-posed shots of, please get in contact, I’d love to meet you both!
