I've got three (and my mother has one). First horse is Vandal 21 y.o. purebred QH, 16hh gelding, chestnut flaxen mane and a great white splodge on his nose. He's a great horse, I got him when I was 12 but he turned up arthritic after only about 7 months of work. We still have him, because he's family and we don't get rid of animals we own, but he's been retired for about eight years on a property a friend's family owns.
Second horse is a Hanoverian/TB first cross, again 16hh, brown/bay with white flecking mare who I bought as a rising four year old. Her name is Arwen and she’s a great horse, I had her broken and rode her out to pony club three weeks later. She’s got a bit of pep and can get moody but she’s very, very clever. I’ve had her as my riding horse (dressage, pleasure) for seven years and she’s been great. Like my first horse she’s got a great temperament, and I’ve never met a horse who took greater pains to avoid running over people— when we hadn’t had my mother’s horse long she lunged after mine and tore into her with her teeth, I was on the other side of my horse and my poor (but considerate) mare just stood there rather than jump into me. She still throws the occasional tanty, but she’s pretty amazing.
Bred her five years ago after my mother was offered a chance to breed a mare and it fell through and I was going to be in my final year of high-school the next year, so it wound up that we bred my mare instead, and thus chilled horse semen was what I got for my 16th birthday. I bred her to a Swedish warmblood stallion imported from Europe (a champion small tour horse registered as
Magritte 780, 16.2hh). I saw him advertised for AI online and he looked similar to my mare so I figured there wouldn’t be any surprises to how the foal would turn out (I like browns and bays, they're low maintence colours, and I wouldn't have a grey in AUS because of skin cancer, and flies seem to find chestnuts extra tasty, and not many palominos or buckskins are bred for dressage sadly), and when we looked at the tape the owner sent his extension of stride was more amazing than any horse I’d ever seen (dressage champions included). So we went with him and my filly, Mango is close to four now will probably be 16hh or so (like that size, I'm 5'10" and I don't believe in feeding horse height I'm not going to use), and is just gorgeous. The personality is the same goofy, gentle nature of my mare, and she has her father’s gorgeous eyes. She’s a lovely striking bright bay and I’ll be breaking her in next year since I’ll be finished with this degree by then, and I plan on riding her (and her mother too) in competitive dressage.
My parents happened to be in the area her sire is, and got to meet him in the flesh, and loved him even more then. He’s totally magnificent, and I hope my filly is half the horse.
... also, I can’t shut up about my horses. I love them too much. I need to restrain myself before I start sharing photos.
. She's registered. Ummmm, I got her when she was 9 months and have been training her since. I got her for a b-day present..... She has the type of personality where she'll be a brat just to annoy you and get what she wants. She's the type where you need to work really hard for her respect. Lastly she's very cute with a way too long mane^_^.
