Hey guys, this is for the horse types of which I'm one.

I have 3 at the moment. Divinity, my FEI Hannoverian Dressage horse, Dulcinea { Dulcy} her little sis, {same Dad} and my old event horse, Fae, who is retired and currently holds the job of most excellent lawn ornament.

Let's see what I can do for pics?


Miss Dulcy ~ This was when I was breaking her. She’d been under saddle for about a month. My sis, who was taking the pic insisted I go out from under the covered arena into the snow cause it “made such a pretty picture” ….um, that’s why I have the frelling cover, so I don’t have to go into the weather.


Another of Dulcy playing in the snow. It really doesn’t know that much here.


one of my favorite pics of “ The Vins”


Fae, in her younger days. She was my event horse.

Hey Vin, thought I would drop by the horse crazy thread and declare myself a horsey type.

I used to own two horses - a Hannoverian by the name of Argyll and a Paint by the name of Monday. Both of these horses have passed on. I lost Monday to colic last year. It was very devastating to me since she was, one of my best friends.

I'm leasing/part-boarding a Trakehner by the name of Griffen. He's abit of a challenge and quite a goofball. He isn't an easy horse to ride and very frustrating in the shows because if I'm not perfect, he won't take that jump.



Griffen and me.



This is Samson. I trained him and fell in love with him. I only did two hunter/jumper shows with him and got Reserve Champions in both! If I had the money, I would buy him, without a doubt.



Monday enjoying herself outside.



Argyll

Okay, I had to drop by here before I left for the parade.

Hey Jazz and Vin, I guess I don't have to introduce myself to either of you. I'll post pictures later.

I see you've found us Kay :

Jazz~ I meant to tell you how sorry I was when you lost your horse Kay told me and I know how hard that is. I lost my first tru partner horse when I was 20. She had a 8 week old filly at her side at the time. For years after, I'd catch myself thinking "what a nice day, I'll ride and Heather will love it" Even while I had other horses.

You know how they say you only get one tru partner horse in a lifetime? Well, I guess I've ridden 2 lifetimes cause PTB saw fit to give me Vin

That 8 week old filly I had to hand raise is standing right outside the window now grazing She's 26 Usually she's in the paddock behind the barn that runs to her stall, but I last night it was so nice and I'd just mowed the front so I put her out. She's having a blast. Usually she hates being away from her stall paddock. She likes the safety of being able to run get in her stall.

I got a tractor I've been spending the last 3 days mowing. The pastures had gotten so high and I knew I was getting a tractor so I didn't get someone else to cut them. Big

Y'all remind me how much I have to mow when I'm frantically seeding in the next month.

Hey Kay, glad to see you have found us!

Vin - Thank you. I'm so glad you found Vin! I have to believe there is another horse out there waiting for me. I've ridden so many and helped with the training of so many but out of all the horses I've trained for other people, Samson is the one I fell for. There was just something about that horse - despite his gruff look, he had a very big heart and always wanted to please the rider. He's the type of horse I look for.

I started barrel racing when I was 10 and moved onto English riding when I was 12. I was lucky because Argyll was left to me in a will by the woman who taught me how to ride. Argyll was her horse and she knew I loved him to death, she basically said in her will, she knew I would take good care of him. When I was 14, I met Monday. The barn I boarded at took in neglected horses and nursed them to health again. Monday was a neglected and abused horse and none of us were really equipped to handle her wild ways. She seemed more taken to me than to anyone else so the woman who ran the barn taught me some techniques and helped me along with Monday until she was rideable again. So she just basically sold Monday to me at a bargain price because I had put the work into her. It's hard when both your horses, who you had for 10-12 years have to be put down and you feel helpless about it.

So I can only hope that I can pull myself out of all these student loans, marry some rich cowboy and keep horses again.

Wow! getting a horse left to you in a will! That's kinda sweet that someone would put y'all together like that.

This is so cool to be able to really talk horses and not feel like your inflicting on Non horse types

Vin found me.

I had been with a friend when she bought her as a weanling. Friend, Leeanna, was determined to have an FEI horse. A doc just finishing schooling, she bought Vin as she was intering her residency leaving her to be raised by the breeder. When Leeanna came home and took Vin over it was clear Vin and she just didn't match. Vin can be difficult.

She tried sending her to Buck Brannamin {sp} for the horse whisper stuff but it didn't go over well, Vin jumped out of the round pen. She was asked not to return He said "this stuff doesn't work on all horses and she's one"

Next she sent her into training with various "bigwig" types. Vin was a bad girl Before her 4th birthday they said she was certainly not Dressage material, or jumper {from one of the Canadian Olympic types who lives here} and felt she was just good for a broodmare, she has really excelent Hannoverian Bloodlines. I bought her for half of what Leeanna had paid for her as a 9 month old.

I bought her not having seen her in over 2 years she's pretty much always been perfect for me. At 11 she works at Intermediare 2 on a good day so I guess she was a Dressage prospect

I'm hoping to finish her up this year. She needs for her one tempi's to be confirmed. She can do a bunch but they are god-awful. Not straight and she can prolly do 10 between 2 letters We're working on moving them forward adn staying deeper. She finally catching onto piaffe, that was hard for her. She wants to push so for a very long time it came out stuck passage. She still has poor extentions, which is wierd cause all the rest of her trotwork is amazing.

Jazz ~ Hang in there on the farm thing. I honestly never even wished to have a farm like I do. I love my farm, way beyond what I'd ever dreamed of. You can never tell what will happen?

Okay since everyone is posting pictures of their equine family I have to put up one of Lady with Marissa Anderson and Jesse up.




Here are a couple I took today.

The antique hearse with the ghost horses.




Ghost Baby, (five months old) hits the lunch counter. Even ghost babies have to eat.

OMB that's the biggest 5 month old baby I've ever seen Very cool pics The color of the horses are perfect.

Where's Jenn?

Vin, Maury his owner says he thinks he's going to be huge. They haven't named him yet. Lynne wants to call him Kraft, since he is caramel colored. I'm voting for Apollo, he is the son of Zeus and out of Diana. I do know that Apollo was one of Zues' offspring, I really think Diana was too but I'm not sure.

Anyway I told Lynne today Apollo fits since he looks like a sun god.

Another picture of the baby. I think he is easily going to out grow Mommy.

Hi Vinity,Jazz& Kay! What lovely photos of the horses, I love Monday, she's beautiful Jazz! How old is she there, in that picture?
I also love the cream horses the best, Kay, I think that baby one, or is it still called a fole, when the horse is 5 months old? What beautiful colouring!! I think that's the next best colour, before the white ones, I've always had a fix, on the white ones, ever sic=nce I was a smmall child,& when I went to C.A. when I was 4 yrs old, My cousins had horses in they'r back yard. One was all white, & the other one, was the simular colours of Vinity's horse, she's beautiful too Vinity!!

I still feel bad, that I never gotr to see the tapes of your horses in "peg( in June) maybe in the next trip, you will bring them along?

Jazz, have you had any shows lately? I could probably make it up there for a Sat,showing? Let me know, O.k.!

Well off to bed, it's 1:33am c-ya all tommorrow, or I mean later on .

HMQ :rotlf: I was just thinking exactly the same thing. How you never showed up at our room to see the DVD Next time

Kay~ that baby is HUGE! He looks to be 15 hands as a 5 month old bet he takes a #4 shoe when he's grown

Well he is a good fourteen hands maybe fourteen one or two. He is definitely a big boy. But he is just as sweet as can be. He loves attention.
And his coat is so silky it almost reminds me of a Norwegian Fjord, if you've ever felt one of them. They have the silkiest coats.

Yes, Monday was beautiful. It broke my heart to put her down. She was probably about 15 in that picture, it was taken awhile ago.

I went to one show last month and it was a disaster which was my fault because I was not in the mindset to be showing and doing alot of jumping. However, just for Kay, I did win Reserve Champion in one division.

My last show for the season will probably be on September 28th. I'm debating if Griffen is ready or not.

His owners want me to show him in Trillium next year (a higher level) so I guess I better whip him into shape.

Jazz I haven't been in the mindset to show in about 15 years not since my eventing days. I've only sorta shown Vin once, it was a disaster. It was right after a very bad injury she had that kept her stall bound, hand walking only for 6 months when she was a 6 YO a few months after starting to work her again I got talked into a schooling show by my, then-sometimes trainer. He wanted me to go 3rd level but I did 2nd and Vin bucked her way thru the whole test, like 50 times She'd lost a shoe, I had cramps, she was in season, the universe tried hard to tell me it wasn't a good idea. I didn't listen.

I'm looking for a truck and trailer so I can get more lessons. Problem is finding someone good at my level. I want to work with Brooke Doss http://www.dressagedaily.com/2002/dd_20021...d_20021030.html and of course, my old, last best teacher Elizabeth Lewis, who's in this country for the winter She has a bunch of horses in Germany with Rudolf Zellinger. Worldly, her 6YO stallion just won 7th in the world in his class

LOL, I'm too young to quit showing. Not sure if I could quit showing, it's in my blood and if it isn't in the horse's blood, then it isn't the horse for me.

However, last time I showed Griffen, my dog has just died very suddenly and I only had ridden him twice and then I was going off to show him? It was just not good for me.

I was lucky to work with some great coaches and my coach now is also a dressage coach but Griffen is HORRIBLE at dressage so I give up when it comes to him.

I am here Vin!!

I don't actually own a horse yet.. but I am taking care of the two my mom aquired... and since I have already fallen in love with one of them he will eventually be mine. His name is JJ, he's 8 years old and that is about all I know.. my uncle kind of dumped both horses off on my mom and pretty much left it up to us to figure things out.. which we are doing. My 10 year old niece, my mom and I have all always wanted horses and now we have our wish. only thing is it is a lot of work!.. first off neither horse has been ridden enough lately and they are both pretty undisciplined. My niece rides the female who is the males mother and since my niece is small it's hard for her to be firm enough to get the horse to do what she wants.. And I am not sure how firm to be.. I have no clue what I am doing but I am trying! I do have a friend who has experience with horses and he is going to help me out. So we shall see! It's definitely going to be a learning experience for all of us.

Here are a couple pictures...
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This is JJ...
[img]http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/groups/g_4378532/Jenn%27s+stuff/JJ.jpg?bcqSPX_ALYs0JVwU[/img]
Another on of JJ...


[img]http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/groups/g_4378532/Jenn%27s+stuff/Cinnamon.jpg?bcqSPX_APlp1YHN2[/img]
And this is Cinnamon...

I really appreciated you winning the reserve championship for my birthday too, Jazz. What do you think of the five month old baby. How are you coming with the Parelli stuff? Is it helping or have you even had a chance to try any of it yet?

By the way HMQ you are right it is still called a foal, it just doesn't really look like one.

Vin I know how much you loved working with Elizabeth, I hope you get to be back with her this winter.

HI Jenn, welcome to horse country. Of course we will do all we can to help you out. Everyone loves to give advice.

I'll take a picture of that Reserve Champion ribbon on Griffen for you sometime Kay.

The five month old baby is HUGE! But you know me, I love big horses!

The Parelli stuff is coming along but it's hard to work with a horse that already has an attitude!

Hi! Hows everone tonight? I'm o.k.!
Vinity, Yes,I will have to see the tapes next time.
Since I've never been to a horse show ever, it would be exiting for me to watch!

Jazz- O.K. I can try & make it, it's towards the end of the month, I'll come up Sat, look around the city, & Then On Sunday I can hop a subway,& get to your area, or where the show is eh. It woulkd be cool for me to watch,& as I mentioned above, I've never ever been to a show.
Plus, The more the merrier for cheering you on right!!

Jenifehr, wow! That's great that you have the horses, yeas, My Dad told me how much work it is, to own horses, although he was talking like it was just "yesterday" when he was on ther farm. Ha!! I had to endore, yet another one of his "lengthly" stories.

So that's where I get it from? Ha!! Nice to see you here Kay! Hows Jeremy been treating you? I hope he's nicer towards you!!
Hey! Has your leg, all healed up now?did you ever get the doctors to figure out , what it was caused by?

Well I'm off, talk to you all later,

Hi Jeannie, My leg is about the same and Jeremy has his good days and bad but mostly he is all right.

This thread needs some more pics so I'm putting up Marci's former donkey Pete, hey he's an equine and his breed should be recognized here.



We also need some mules.



And of course we must include a Zorse.

HMQ - There might be a change of plans and I might be showing at smaller show on the 21st. I'm trying to see if that's possible. Griffen hasn't been behaving very well.

The problem is, if you come for a show, you can't get to the farm by a subway. You can get to my house by subway and a bus but not to the farm. The thing is, I don't mind you travelling with me to the farm and then to the show (when I trailer my horse) but I don't know if you would be bored of me checking his braids, doing the wraps, grooming and packing up for the show early in the morning and then hitching the trailer, driving to the show and then waiting around some more! Though, my friends tell me it's totally worth it watching me in the arena.

HMQ~ run! she's trying to make you a groom! I see the signs Jazz, hope you're more together than I was when I showed. I practically had to have someone dress me I was only OK when I was actually on a horse. You make sure you get pics!

Kay~ I'm seriouly in love with teh zebra horse.

Jenn~ Your pics aren;t showing I want to see.

God this is so much fun! I've been so trained to not talk hoese around non horsey people it's just so great to let it out and not feel guilty! I always felt guilty on the reg threads even tho people acted interested I always figured they were being polite.

Shhhhhhh Vin! You're giving away my secret plans!

I'm actually pretty good when it comes to competing. When I'm on the right horse, I'm quite confidence and as my friends say, "You make it look so damn easy!" They ride too and love to be where I'm at.

But of course, because I'm working with this unreliable horse, I'm not moving as fast as I want to and working through schoolling shows to school him.

My aunt by marriage has family in Kentucky who run a training facility and the Zorse was brought in to them a few years ago train. They did manage to get him rideable. But he definitely did stand out among the other horses.

Their training is a real family affair. The parents and three sons all have homes on t he same farm and they work together to train and show horses. I think mostly they do riding although the mother does or at least used to do some jumping.

So what happened to the horse people. Jazz, Vin, Jenn, doesn't anyone have anything to say about their horses?

Horses!!!!!!!!!! Most people get a car for their sixteenth birthday. I got a horse.

And in the past year had gotten 3 more horses and 2 babies.

We're trying to teach one of the calves who's five or six months old to lead, but he just layed on the ground. We dragged him a little then gave up.

Most people get cars at their 16th birthday? Was I born to a strange family because I never got a car!

I got my first horse because my trainer passed away and left him to me.

I got my first horse at 7

Kay nothing to say. The girls have had a couple of days off whle I was mowing. Vin lost a back shoe Blacksmith is due tomorrow.

Jazz~ You ready? So what classes are you doing? How does it work in Canada? same as here division wise?

I rode Griffen yesterday. He was abit strong on the flats and the flies were bothering him (I swear NO fly spray works on this horse!) so keeping him on the bit was really difficult.

However, when I jumped over two fences, he didn't refuse a thing. In fact, he was completely alert and ready to do what I asked. I was shocked considering on Monday he wouldn't do the warm up fence, he was in denial that it was even there. What a goofball.

He never ceases to amaze me on WHAT bothers him because it could be the littlest thing that has nothing to do with anything.

I'm not sure if I'm ready. I guess the classes are the same in the Hunter division right? I mean, 2'3" to 2'6" and 2'9" to 3" classes? I'm going to enter him in the class before, two courses in the class before hitting the bigger one. That way he has gone over the jumps and knows the arena.

Okay, so I have to post a couple more pictures, these are ones I haven't put up for awhile but for some reason most of the girls like them. It must be that pretty black horse.

This is Tom, son of my friend who runs the therapuetic riding stables, he is on Filly.

Toooooommmm.....*drool*

Yeah, if I remember right Jazz you were always a bit partial to that last picture.

I'm partial to any good looking guy shirtless.

Particularly if there is the added advantage of his being able to ride a horse.

Oh god yes, good riders are good...hmm...never mind.

Are they? I've had.....experiance with 2 riders and they ......weren't

Kay ~ they look fine

Jazz~ Good luck tomorrow You all set? clean and braided or do you do that in the morning.. god forbid! I remembr getting up at 5am to braid!

ROTFL! Really? Or maybe that's just a thing about women then?

Actually, the show is on the 28th Vin! So I don't have to be ready for a long while. And I have someone braiding for me. She does all my braiding.

You're lucky there Jazz, that always looked like a very time consuming chore but a nice tight braid always looks great.

We have had two days of rain here but we really needed it, but all it does is make me want to sleep. I could go doze off right now.

Oh god yes and she does braiding for the high level circuit here. But she's a friend of mine and is always willing to do my braiding for me in exchange for some help with her horses. So I'm willing. It's a good deal. It's like my friend and I who compete in different levels. I'll be her groom and she is mine.

Sounds like a great arrangement.

Vin are you getting the hatches battened down? Hope Isabel decides to head out to sea instead of into N. Carolina. Keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Okay Jazz and Vin, I don't know where you two are but we can't let the horse thread be at the bottom of the page so I'm going to post my picture of the three Suffolks. For those of you who are new to my posts I was really excited when this picture was chosen to be published in a book on draft horse care.

Kay, sorry things are getting hectic here again. I was suppose to go out and ride Griffen yesterday but it was so rainy and cold I didn't even bother. Hurricane Isabel's heading the the shorelines and I'm thinking we're going to get alot of rain and wind soon!

I love that picture!

Hey Jazz does it affect you way up in Toronto? I know Vin is really busy, right now the eye of the storm is projected to go right over the top of her.

Everyone might include a plea for safety in your prayers.

BTW Jazz, I have that really nice picture of you in my Club Photo Album, I hope you don't mind if I post it later on.

Well, it is said that we would be getting the "gist" of the hurricane but we never actually *had* a hurricane before here.

I don't mind you posting the picture but I don't even remember what picture it is. I checked this site and I'm listed as Reserve Champion for that show. LOL. Too bad it's only for a division I am never usually good at but that was for you Kay.

Okay here is the picture Jazz. I think it's you and Griffen, but I really like it.




I really honored that dedicated the win to me for my birthday.

Oh yeah, that shot. My sister took that Christmas Day, I was freezing my butt off, my face turned bloated cause it was so cold. LOL! Not a flattering picture of me.

But alot of people like it regardless!

Here is some snappies from the last disaster show I did. I don't have a film of when I did the Hacks but I have a shot of us cantering in the last Hack class of the day.



Cantering around



Griffen and me jumping a 2'6" oxer in a hunter course.



And of course, Griffen DUMPING me before the jump which eliminated us in that show. I'm actually never going back to that place again considering Griffen used to board there and he was quite unhappy there. But it was a good training ground to teach him strange jumps with decorations on it. It just didn't work out well!

Some more pictures for you Kay. I'm on the roll with my snappy. I don't think I introduced you to Tony, this horse that I was working with for awhile. He won championship at the last horse show.



Tony and me cantering.



Samson and Jazz - reunited!



Samson and me participating in the RCMP Musical Ride.



A pattern called "Thread the Needle". You go in between the horses.



Splitting the line.



End of pattern, stopping nose to bum!

Really neat pictures Jazz, I love them all. Samson looks so massive compared to Griffen and Tony. I love that look.

It's been a long but fun day today. My friends brought their handicapped accessible ride wagon down to White Oaks and gave rides to a couple of groups of students. This was particular fun for a group who are from a wheelchair facility in this area. They come over for pet therapy but normally would not be able to ride or go for a wagon ride. It was a thrill for them to get out and do something different.

Here are a some pictures from the day.


Loading a wheelchair.



Approach to the covered bridge



Coming across the bridge



Kay

Ooo...I love those pictures Kay!

Samson is massive because of his body, he has a very large body and head. Griffen is slim and tall. Samson is smaller and chunky.