OTTB-post yours!

Well, my first OTTB was Tejana - aka TJ - a 15.3hh, 8 year old mare I leased earlier this year. I have no idea about her racing history, but she raced as Tejano's Sands. She evented to the CCI* level before I leased her, and I evented her at Novice. She's a very cool horse, but very chestnut TB mare-esque, haha! TJ's definitely not afraid to voice her opinion.





And of course, there's Dante - the love of my life! I've had him officially for probably 5 or 6 weeks now. When I was a working student in VA, he was my favorite horse, I doted on him constantly, and really wanted to buy him. He was priced at 20k, however, which I definitely could NOT afford (I'm more of a 2k kinda girl, haha!). About a week after I came home, the woman I had worked for called me to let me know that some stuff had come up, and if I wanted him, he was mine. I cried for about two hours! It took a couple weeks to get everything sorted out and for him to come to Maine - longest two weeks of my life! Haha! He's perfect - will jump anything, amazing mover...love himmm :) He previously evented to Novice but has a ton of jump and jumps much higher courses. He has a ton of potential. I only have one pic of me jumping him, and it's a teeny fence, but whatever, haha!
He raced as Philbert (haha!) and is a Seattle Slew grandson. He raced 38 times and won 7, placing second a ton of times too. I haven't decided on his showname yet - possibly Mr. Brightside or La Vie Boheme (yep, I'm a Renthead.).





Mmm, picture overload...sorry about that ;)

Wow! That is awesome! He is gorgeous!

Hi Everyone!!

Awesome topic!!! This is Smooth Velvet - aka Velvet, Vel, Vellie, Pony Pants etc. She is the absolute love of my life and I have owned her for almost 5 yrs now. She just turned 9yo.

She is a bay mare, JUST under 16hh (she's a midget) by Arisitis (by STORM CAT out of a COX'S RIDGE mare) and is out of a mare called Satin Supreme (who is by Al Mufti who is a LEGEND here! lol). Velvet comes from EXTREMELY good racing lines, her mom won 7 races and all her grannies before her too. But Vel only raced twice.

Anyway, I was looking for a horse a few years ago, stumbled across Vel's ad a few times but really wasn't impressed by the pic. Anyway, I just got a feeling about her (despite the HORRID pic!) and phoned her owner. She said that someone had made on offer on Vel but she had a feeling about me and wanted me to see her before she said yes to the other lady.

So last minute travel arrangements were made and off we went. After driving for HOURS we finally found the place and when we pulled into the driveway, I saw the most BEAUTIFUL little bay I had ever seen standing in the lunging arena. I said to my mom right there and then "if that is her, that's my horse!". And the rest is history as they say!

Velvet is in foal at the moment but she is normally my jumping horse, we also compete in showing and I would very much like to try some eventing and dressage on her too! (Hoping having a baby will settle her a bit! lol)

Pics are Velvet jumping her first ever cross country jump (she LOVED it!), jumping at her first ever show and some pics of when she was 2 months pregnant.

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Thanks, RedHawk :) I feel like I'm in a kid's horse book or something, haha!

danteexeventer- I LOVE your horse!

im going to be stupid here and ask what OTTB is????

of the track thoroughbred is what it stands for OTTB. I love everyones horses they are all so gorgeous and handsome!

Beautiful horses!!! My first OTTB was a chestnut mare called Ruffie my Dad got for a cup of coffee at the Bunbury Race track in West Australia. She was great! When I left to join the army the neighbours bought her.

After that I took in two OTTBs here in the US that I retrained for a friend. They were awesome I fell in love with the grey gelding Levi but he moved on too.

Now I have CoCo, aka Sligo's Secret by Sligo Bay. I feel bad for the people that bred her cause it cost them $7500 just for the semen! I got her for free on Monday. She had 6 starts, one 3rd place, no wins. She didn't do well on the dirt track so her owners decided to retire her before she was injured. They happen to breed warmblood sporthorses so that's pretty cool.

Anyway, she's 4yo 17hh and absolutely adorable! She loves cuddles and picks up her feet when you say "foot," lunges like a dream and has a beautiful trot (I haven't seen any other gait on her yet).

This is the pic I got from her previous owner I haven't had a chance to take more of her since I brought her back.

Wow! Another gorgeous TB for free! I think I need to move to America, lol.

This is my mare Hiway threetwenty she raced less then 20 times and she just wasn't competitive at the track. Her sire is snuck in by montebrook her dam was a daughter of notebook. They originally wanted 2000 for her but I picked her up for 500. These are her pictures when we brought her home she had just raced that week.

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