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There’s breed/color specific threads where you to show off your horses such as Saddlebreds, Buckskins, etcetera. But not all of us have those specific breeds/colors in our herds.

Here’s a chance to show off all your horses, whether they’re your own horses, your family’s horses, of horses that you lease and/or just ride for other people!

Post the horses name and breed, please... We all like seeing pictures, but what good are pictures if we’re left guessing? Everything else (age, height, what they’re used for, personality, funny quirks, etcetera...) is optional.

I’ll start...
These are the horses currently in our pasture.

First, here’s a picture of the whole herd...


My Horses
Gypsie is my mare. She’s a Tennessee Walker, though she doesn’t gait and has been mistaken for a Standardbred, Thoroughbred, and Warmblood cross in the past. She’s exactly 15.1 hands. She’s 15 years old this year. She’s just a trail horse and absolutely loves riding on woodsy trails... it’s really what she excels at. She hates being left in the pasture when we take other horses out, but she isn’t herd sour or pasture sour at all. When she isn’t ridden in a few weeks, you really have to watch her once you get back on her because she’ll definitely take you for a ride until she gets her issues sorted out. She’s somewhat gun-shy, but is getting better. She absolutely loves riding through and playing in water.



Dakota is my gelding. He’s also a Tennessee Walker (he’s Gypsie’s baby). He’s about 15.2 hands. I haven’t yet gotten him to gait... honestly, I don’t think it’s in him; he’s too much like his dam. He’s only 3 years old. He, like Gypsie, is just a trail horse. Though he hasn’t been on a lot of trails, he seems to enjoy them and is always pretty happy to go through one. He doesn’t really care about being left alone and I can leave him in the pasture for months with barely no handling and he acts like he’s been messed with on a daily basis when I do get him out. He doesn’t like riding on very rocky ground, but he does like to splash in the water. He’s the horse that, when the other horses refuse to go, I can trust that he’ll be the first or one of the first to ‘take the step’ and lead.



My great uncle David’s horses.
Buttercup is the herd leader. She’s a Racking Horse and is roughly 24 years old (give or take a year). She’s 15.1 hands. She can Rack up a storm, too, but unless you’re firm with her, she’ll break gaits. She’s half-retired, but we still use her for a trail horse and a kid’s horse for the younger kids in the family. She’s pretty bad herd sour and hates leading (she’d much rather follow another horse). She’s also very stubborn and somewhat head-shy... but she’s nowhere near as bad as she used to be.



Nugget is one of the most annoying little horses I’ve ever had the displeasure to meet. She’s a good horse, but she’s so annoying... She’s a Racking Horse/x/Quarterhorse and is only 2 years old, but pulls a buggy and will ride moderately well. She’s only about 13.2 hands tall. She’s also pushy and is always up in your space. Her nickname is ‘Trouble’.



My cousin Sherry’s horse.
Patch is a good horse. I like her, and that’s saying something because I don’t really like pinto/paint horses. She’s about 15.1 hands, maybe a few centimeters taller. She’s a Racking Horse and is about 8 or 9 years old. She’s a timid horse and has some really stupid moments like the time she was terrified of her own shadow... but she’s a nice horse. She doesn’t really like being caught or saddled due to some bad experiences with people hurting her while training her when her owner boarded her, but she’s much better now. Her main rider is her owner’s twelve year old daughter.



My cousin Rusty’s horse.
Wildman is a pretty nice little horse. His name doesn’t really fit him, but it’s ok... He’s a Mustang/x/Quarterhorse cross and is about 6 years old. He’s about 14.1 hands tall. He doesn’t really like being caught, but once you get him he’s a really sweet boy. He was trained in a pony bit, and now if you attempt to ride him in any other bit he turns into a bronc...



My cousin Derek’s horse.
Megan (or Meighan, as we sometimes call her) is about 10-ish years old and is 14.3 hands tall. She’s a Mustang and, while she may not be the prettiest put together horse, she’s definitely worth her weight. She’s a very well trained and hardy little horse. Her rider (my cousin Derek) isn’t all that good, but she takes care of him. She does whatever is asked of her with no resistance.



My ex-uncle, Scotty’s horse.
Diablo is the oldest horse we currently have in our pasture. He’s in his upper 30’s. He’s about 14.2 hands and is a Mustang. His owner’s girlfriend is ‘taking care’ of him because Scotty is in jail... When she brought him out here, he was fatter and she was supposed to bring feed for him, but she never did. We’ve only seen her once since she brought him out... She seems to think that we won’t say anything to her, but we’ve told her that she has to move him because we aren’t going to get into trouble for her negligence. He may be thin, but he is pretty healthy and still has a bit of get-up and go. He’s retired from riding permanently and has been for about ten years now. He’s a really sweet boy and likes to be scratched.



My ex-uncle’s girlfriend, Jennifer’s horse.
Leigh is a little horse. She’s a Mustang/x/Quarterhorse cross and is only about 14 hands. She’s 3 years old. She’s a loveable little mare that you can’t help but like. No one has been on her since she was originally trained a year ago, but I’ve leaned over her back a few times and she did nothing. Her owner has to move her too, because we’re not going to take responsibility for the horses when their owner isn’t even related to us.



Now, show off your horses!
 
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#3 ·
Here's my horse family.



That's Dot, who is 29 and a half-QH, half-Morgan, Gracie who is Dot's 12 year old daughter who is 3/4 Morgan, and my Paint Toby who is 6 years old.

Dot and Gracie are owned by the lady who keeps Toby for me.
 
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Oh, goodness. I may end up having to do 2 posts. LOL

John (Shalinka's Stormy Knight) 4 yo Percheron stud. I broke him to ride in January and have not ridden him since due to no saddle the right size.


Buck (Barron Von John) QH that I grew up on. Unfortunately, he had to be put down several years ago at the age of 26. He is sorely missed.


Denny: 15 year old QH. He was the first horse I ever trained completely by myself.


Dobe: 7 year old BLM Mustang and my big sweet boy.


Koda: 6 year old BLM Mustang.


Bessie: 7 year old Belgian Mare who was a rescue.


Pokey (Jake Fajita): 5 year old QH that I bought my Dad for his birthday 4 years ago.


Prissy: belongs to a friend of mine but I am currently getting her started under saddle.


Flash (Dandy Flash Dancer): 26 year old QH. One of our 2 retirees that helped raise me and my brother.


Tiny: 23?? year old Belgian mule. The only one remaining of the team.


Olen: 25 year old Mini-burro. He was my very first mount before I earned a horse.


Sis (Peppy Smackers): 27 year old QH. Our other retiree that raised us 2 kids.


Flipper: 19?? year old TB who was a resue from the sale barn. He is on the right in this pic.
 
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Continued........


Jet (Mr. Zippo's Easy Jet): 9 year old paint gelding that I trained and then sold for 7 times the profit.



Storm: My first ever green broke horse to ride, I was 14. She was an amazing little mare and I wish that we could have kept her.


And last but not least, is Rafe. He is a 2 day old Belgian x QH.


There have been dozens of others that were less memorable. I have tons more pix of the others here.
Other Horses pictures by smrobs - Photobucket
 
#9 ·
Gunsmoke: Palomino TWH who will not gait. 5 years old, gelding.

Horse Mane Unicorn Font Fictional character


Sunny: SSH gelding. 9 years old. Brown and white paint.

Horse Mammal Vertebrate Colt Mane


Cody: Pony mutt, 4 or 5 years old, gelding. Bay.

Horse Mammal Vertebrate Stallion Mane


Simon: 8 or 9 year old SSH gelding. Black and white paint.

Horse Vertebrate Mammal Mane Stallion


Dont' have any pictures of Todd on this computer :(
He is a 27 year old Arabian gelding. Bay, very spunky but mild mannerd 99% of the time.
 
#12 ·
Ridesapaintedpony-I want Dot, what an adorable little ******!
Yes, she is. She still gets ridden, though not as often as before. I always feel guilty when I saddle her up for a ride. lol

Here she is that same day. She just shed out the rest of her wooly coat a few weeks ago.

 
#11 ·
Celeste is a 22-year-old Hanoverian mare that one of my instructors bought about a year and a half ago. She hadn't been ridden in over 10 years and needed retraining. She is about 15.3 or 16hh and such a sweetie. While she can sometimes be a bit of a handful on the ground, she has improved a lot. Even though she is 22 years old, she still has lots of energy! Once she had a little bucking fit when I was on her, but she has gotten over that :). She loves to learn and has huge, beautiful, floating gaits.





Raspberry is a very old (not sure how old) Pony of the Americas. Everyone at the barn learns to ride on him. He's a silly little boy with tons of character. He loves apples and when I rode him I would always bring him a couple slices. His mane is very long and very fluffy- it is usually a couple inches thick and at least a foot and a half long!

(^^^from 6 years ago^^^)

(^^^Raspberry and Cashalle^^^)

I have been riding Ruby for about 2 years now. She is a 15.3hh Quarter Horse mare. She can be a little moody sometimes, but has been trained in 2nd Level movements in dressage and is a great schoolteacher.


Thumper is my very favorite horse. He is an 11-year-old (I believe) Thoroughbred/Mini cross and is about 15.3hh. When he was younger his ear was bitten off by another horse so one ear is flat on the tip. Thumper is such a friendly horse- just last Monday I rode a different horse and was untacking him, and Thumper would just stick his nose over his stall and look around and whinny until I came over to say hi. He loves to go fast and was trained and competed in jumping until he was donated to Hoofers. He can be gentle though. One of the instructors teaches a man with a mental illness and Thumper is perfect for him. When he gets a little fast, Michael will turn him into a corner and then when he's ready they'll just continue on. Thumper's registered name is Footloose. He used to have a red headband with devil ears on it in his grooming bucket, and my friend and I would take it and stick it on his head. He couldn't have cared less! He is such a troublemaker, too! I took off my helmet next to his stall one day and he was very interested. I let him sniff it and all of a sudden he grabbed it with his teeth and shook it around in the air! Thumper is my senior rider horse- I love him so much.
(Thumper's on the right)





 
#13 ·
Here is the whole heard in one action shot:


First one in the lead is Toby (registered Motley RR) - haflinger, 8 years old. 2nd one is JJ the donkey, 7 or 8 years old. 3rd one is Willie a grade haflinger, 5 years old. The bay is Drifter (Dlux Color Edition) - APHA solid-bred gelding, 4 years old. The last one is Apache - a tobiano gray draft cross, 4 years old.
 
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Here's my 15.3hh, 10 year old TB, Victor. I use him for hunt seat, trails, and jumping.



And my 17hh American Cream, Norman. :) We trail ride and just putz around on him, mostly. I'm waiting another year to start jumping with him, since he's only five. Plus he needs a lot more flat work first.

 
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