Here's Mystique... She's a five(and a half)-year-old Missouri Fox Trotter. I got her just after her third birthday. She's an amazing trail horse... She always surprises me. She never spooks at anything, and will go anywhere I point her head. When she was younger, I used to ride with old horses a lot. Whenever there would be somewhere that they didn't want to go, she would always lead them through it. I don't ride with other people that much anymore... It's usually just the two of us, and I almost always ride her bareback.
Here she is saddled up and ready to go as a three-year-old:
Here she is saddled up and ready to go as a four-year-old:
And here she is saddled up and ready to go as a five-year-old: (not the best picture of her)
Here she is as a four-year-old:
Here she is as a four-year-old, ready to go bareback:
And here she is as a three-year-old, already out on the trail bareback:
And this is Fendi... A sixteen-year-old Paso Fino. I've known him longer than I've known my mare, but he's technically owned by my friend. He's a pretty good little trail horse, but he's really spooky. All he does is jump though... he doesn't spin or bolt or buck or rear.