Depressed Horses Reunited After Years Apart (Video)

An incredible short film of two depressed horses being reunited after years apart went viral (video below).

Sue Blagburn posted the five-minute film to YouTube, explaining the amazing story behind it in the description.

On the 14 December 2012 I repurchased Arthur, a horse that I bred but had to sell four and a half years previously in 2008. During this period two of Arthur’s playmates from “foalhood”, William who had been with Arthur since they were foals and Harry who arrived as a foal a year later stayed with me during a transition from running the busy graphic design business to working in equine facilitated learning and therapy. We had a few moves, and Harry and William had shared their lives with many other horses and ponies since spring 2009. 

Mustons Field, near the village of Hazelbury Bryan the place in Dorset where I used to live and all my horses and ponies grew up in has long been sold, and this reunion happened far away in a village called Firle in East Sussex, in a field William and Harry had only lived in for two weeks, whilst I was studying in this area, so there was nothing familiar. Would Arthur now aged eight and a half, a thoroughbred sports horse that has spent the last four and a half years in a high class private competition yard BE eventing have any memory at all of the two hairy New Forest pony playmates he once shared his youth with? And likewise would William and Harry [recognize] that little thoroughbred guy who was once their best mate? 

This 5 minute film is the editing down of almost an hour of extraordinary footage of amazing hugging and communicating, that even I didn’t think would be quite so loving and extraordinary.

In the time since the clip was filmed, Blagburn said that the amazing reunion prompted the family to purchase a new home where they run a facility called Adventures with Horses, Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning.

“Glad they are back together. We bought a 3 & half year old miniature horse. Finally after 5 months, I was able to purchase his Mama, who was 21. Before we got her out of the trailer, he heard her and came running across the pasture. About 7 years later, at age 28, she died. He became very depressed and has not been the same since. He stays to himself a lot,” one AWM America reader commented on the site’s Facebook page. 

“Brought tears…love this. These 3 horses belong together. So glad you were able to buy him back. What an awesome reunion for these 3!!! They are beautiful!!” another added. 

Sources: AWM, AWM America/Facebook, Sue Blagburn/YouTube / Photo credit: AWM