Psynbakan Wedjat
Beginning of August 2004 I went to the open day at Buchan Arabians Llandeilo, owned by Emrys and Sue Jones, whom with the help of their sons and daughter gave an enjoyable down to earth display of all the stallions, mares, foals and youngsters. Among the foals was a two month old colt (Karissa x Psynergy) with fantastic movement, the longer the stride the wider he became in the back, covering the uneven ground with confidence and ease, to top it all he ran off ahead of his mum in a bold care free manner.
I went home and spent weeks dropping hints about the young colt to no avail only to be reminded that it was about time attention was directed at the house, which is in dire ‘need’ of an extension and revamp. The house is seriously small I’m talking capital S, 10 strides you’ve covered the length and 5 strides you’ve covered the width. We’ve only been here since May 2001!!!! and always finding more important things to spend money on!!
In the October I had a phone call from friend’s Sue and Tim who had that day been to Buchan Arabians to collect a colt that had come up from the Isle of White and whilst sorting the paper work out Sue mentioned to Mr and Mrs Jones my fondness for the young Psynergy colt. Sue and Tim were told that one morning a week after the open day they had found him in the field with his head covered with blood having been shot in the left eye with a pellet gun. The eye although damaged had been left in.
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing and to top it all the the couple who were buying him had pulled out. So by 5p.m that day we were down with Mr and Mrs Jones, my only worry was that Wedjat would have lost that confidence I’d seen in him the first time back in August, that worry soon disappeared as he ran of in front of his mum sniffing the ground on both sides of the track you'd never of guessed he had only the sight of one eye.
We picked Wedjat up a few weeks later when his mum was due to go back to her owners. He settled in straight away, with Celti taking him under his wing.
In the summer of 2005 we were a little concerned about the lower eye lid which dropped slightly and the grass seeds would lodge causing irritation and rubbing. I didn’t want to put a hood on as his sight was already restricted so we decided to have the eye closed, but I didn’t want him to look as though he had a hole in the side of his head either. Our vet Liz Potter was great and went on the Internet and found a company in America who made silicon eye implants for animals. So one was sent over. Ab Owen of Oswestry Equine Clinic preformed the operation removing the damaged eye then closing it up with the implant inside to stop the eye lids lining the orbit cavity.
At the moment Wedjat is by-passing every one and has become the tallest on the yard, two years and five months old and already in a six foot rug it’s a lovely sight to see him and Faisel run together so effortlessly, with that ‘look at me attitude‘. Even after every thing with his eye you’d have expected him to become a little head shy but no he shows complete trust in you. He has the most wonderful nature as does his parents.
By the time we came to buying Wedjat his registration papers had already been sent off to the Arab Society with the name Psynbakan but the society very kindly allowed us with the agreement of Mrs Jones to add on the name Wedjat. The name comes from Egyptian religion concerning the god Horus, presented by the most striking symbol of power in the skies, the Falcon. His time was spent warding of evil especially the destructive god Seth. It was in one of these battles with Seth that Horus lost his left eye. The eye had to be made whole again by Thoth, and became a more potent symbol of perfection. The ‘Wedjat Eye’ became a symbol of victory over evil and was used in many drawings, hieroglyphs as well as in the form of amulets particularly in burials.