Suzy & Mickey’s Blog – October 2025

Suzy Wood: Any update on the chesnut takeover plot?

Monansunu: Oh yes! No sooner had we discussed what was going on, than another chesnut arrived, named Clinton Lane. He did not have a mostly white face, but his face is so big that the white blaze would make a whole white face on a normal sized horse.

S: So we are putting him in the enemy camp because he has a big head?

M: Basically, we are. But we must be realistic, his head is only in proportion to the rest of him.

S: But is there not another new horse too?

M: There were two. One is a bay, so we can trust him.

S: Are you sure?

M: Do you know something that you are not telling me?

S: Oooh, lots of things. But nothing about Tropical Speed specifically.

M: Sounds like I will have to get my secret agent to investigate you.

S: You have a secret agent? Who might that be?

M: If I tell you, it would not be secret.

S: Well, it’s probably Stitch. But giant greys who weight three-quarters of a ton are not good at doing things secretively.

M: Who said it is Stitch?

S: Who said it is not?

{Several minutes of repetition edited out here – Ed.}

S: Well? Who was the other new horse?

M: A grey. His name is Douglas.

S: Ha ha ha! Who calls a horse Douglas?

M: Doesn’t matter. He is in the box two doors down from me and because he is a grey he is getting far too much attention.

S: Ooh, spoken like true egomaniac dictator.

M: I can get a new podcast sidekick if you don’t behave.

S: And again. Still, I heard you did some schooling over barrels this week?

M: Yep. Jumped a few. Kicked one or two. Went over them with Yasmina.

S: Secretly?

M: No! But I do like the sound they make when they get kicked.

S: Me too. It is like those Japanese drummers. We could make a stage show out of all of us jumping barrels and randomly kicking them.

M: Didn’t see you over there in the loose school.

S: No, I went over the proper schooling fences.

M: On your own?

S: No…

M: With whom?

S: A chesnut with a big white face.

M: Ah-ha! I sensed treason and I was right! As usual.

S: I did not choose to go with Birdman Bob. They made me because I am in a race soon.

M: Hmmmmm. But just know, I have got my eye on you. Even when it is on carrots, it’s on you as well.

S: I might just go off and do my own podcast. With Douglas.

M: Aaaargh! Anyway, nobody wants to see that. Not even Douglas.

S: Is it time to move on to question of the month? I think it is. This time it comes from a Mr John Carpenter in Carthage, somewhere in America. At least I suspect that, because the alternative is that it has been handed down over the millennia and was scarily prescient when written. Also the Carthaginians had names like Hannibal and Hasdrubal and Hamilcar, not John Carpenter. And the Carthaginians would probably write to elephants, not horses.

M: Is there a slight chance that you are going to get on with it?

S: Sorry. Mr Carpenter asks who is the most scary in the yard at Halloween. I could say Stitch but he is too chilled out. Probably Douglas, because he looks like a ghost.

M: Will you stop going on about Douglas. He is not scary. He does not look like a ghost, he looks like a horse. Four legs, two ears, one tail. A horse.

S: You are getting quite touchy. I would say then that next scariest it must be the cats. Because you only ever get a fleeting glimpse of them, out of the corner of your eye.

M: If the next thing you say is that you turned to look but it was gone, then you are definitely sacked.

S: Your lips move, but I can’t hear what you say.

M:  Helper monkey! Who is next up for blog and podcast duty? Yasmina or La Dolce Dolly?

{It says on my list that it is Douglas – Ed.}

M: You’re fired too.