The official horse thread.

[PiperAndRiosMommy]

Beautiful horses !!! I have a 9 year old Thoroughbred gelding. He is an ex-racer and he is a handful. We dabble in dressage a little bit, nothing real fancy yet as he is still going through his retraining. Making him forget what he was bred to do is not an easy task. I am a shorty so he looks pretty large in the pics. He is 16.1 - 16.2.

Here is my boy, Falcon Scott.

 

[Customcasket]

Oh I am so jealous of everybody and their horses! I love horses! I used to ride all the time! My parents always swore I'd "out grow" horses and refused to buy/lease a horse for me. I rode constantly as a kid and rode at least once or twice a week (If i was allowed I would've never left the barn lol) until I was 16 almost 17. My priorities changed at that point. I had to start working in order to afford my car and go to school. The last time I went riding was when I was 18 and was in Las Vegas with my mother. We went on a trail ride type deal out in the desert. Oh it was so beautiful! I hardly have time for anything other than work, school, and regular daily chores (birds, cats, house, etc.) I cannot wait until I am done with school! 4 more semesters and I will FINALLY have my degree.

I hope to have my own horse one day. It's been a dream of mine from the time I was probably 8 or 9. Never mind, let me rephrase that. I WILL have a horse of my own one day! Nothing is going to stop me!!!! I don't care if it takes me until I'm 90. I will have my own horse! Until then I'll just drool over the pictures of your horses.

 

[Pugtato]

Oh OH!! Me TOO!! I have a 6 year old Anglo-Arabian Gelding named Oz. He is my "Dude." I have been riding since I was a boop, and he is my dream horse. We do English, Western, dressage, light jumping, and are working towards endurance racing sometime in the distant future. I adore him.

I just saw that some lucky forum member got their hands on a Palisades Appaloosa, I almost bought Cash, one of her 2008 foals. Instead I bought my Ozzy boy as a two year old from an Arabian breeder in over her head a few towns over. You are SOOOO lucky, Palisades has THE most beautiful horses on the planet!

 

[Blue]

I've been around horses my whole life
this is me with my Gramp when I was about 3, thinking I could drive the team

these are my horses, they live in northern NY with on my parents' farm, so I dont get to see them to much
Queeny, my old girl, 27 this year

Dewdrop, Queeny's 17 yr old son

Tori, Queeny's 4 yr old daughter

My haflingers
Mac, 7

Pumpkin, Mac's 4 yr old daughter

my dad's teams
Butch and Buddy, Butch was just sold

JT and Mindy

and just because I love this pic of Buddy

 

[Customcasket]

Gorgeous horses!!!!

 

[JerseyWendy]

BEAUTIFUL horses, everyone!!!!!

The following pictures are DECADES old. I started riding when I was 6 (back in Germany). When I was 13 my father bought me the horse of my dreams, "Blues", and together we weekly did competetive dressage & jumping.

Blues was the first love of my life...I will never, for as long as I live, forget him.

I do have to get my butt in the saddle again soon

 

[horsesculpter]

Count me in. I think there are many horse/bird people out there. I meet many of them when we take our macaw to horseshows. We have racing quarter horse breeding stock but I make my living sculpting them so I am posting pictures of the last two I finished both installed at Kentucky farms in December. This one is the great sire Distorted Humor tb. Done for WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky.

 

[horsesculpter]

This is "The Promise for Respite Farm in Paris, Ky.

 

[JoSweetDreams]

This is my horse Bertie. I've had him since he was three and a half. He is 17 now. We do light hacking and a bit of schooling. He was diagnosed with bone spavin and kissing spine last week Hopefully with the treatment he is getting we will be able to ride again. I don't have kids, Bertie is my baby. He is so laid back and such a softie.