Contest entry: ABAB rhyming scheme. I watched a documentary on this wonderful pair; Warrior would race along the sands on the Isle of Wight and wade in up to his chest letting the waves wash over him - most horses would not do this, afraid of the force of the sea - Warrior was afraid of nothing and no one! Colonel Jack Seely and his warhorse 'Warrior' led the charge against the Germans in WW1. Both man and horse came home from that bloody battle of The Somme. One hundred thousand horses were shipped over from Britain - eighty thousand died. 'Galloping Jack' as he was called, died aged 75 and his beloved 'Warrior' the horse that led the charge that saved the French people; passed over to horse heaven aged 33. That is an amazing age for a horse. The horses left behind in France were dispatched humanely and the carcasses used to feed the starving French people. Some of the horses were given to French farmers so they could get their shattered lives back to the farming they once knew. I hope you enjoy this story/poem.

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