Pictures of your trailhorse!

Well here is my one and only boy... and such a sweet boy he is lol

I had bugged my parents for years about wanting a horse and final I decided to take matters into my own hands and i got online looking for horses. Came across a well broke paint gelding that I decided to look at and told my parents I would pay them back if they bought him. (they decided since i was being so responsible I didnt have to pay them...plus I was christmas time! lol)

We talked to the owner but she said she wasnt sure if she could sell the paint because her kids were upset about it but that I caould also look at her little black gelding. Well the day we went out she said the paint was a no go so I looked at Romeo Instead! He didnt even have a name at the time lol an was so green it was rediculous...

Well I didnt really care...I could handle a green horse...had been riding for years on my friends horses and so we got him...

Its been almost two years now and we have a bond like no other...he trusts me to take him anywhere on the belief i wont get him hurt lol and i trust him not to act a fool over anything...so far so good! lol He is a darn near bomb proof trail mount and the closest he comes to spooking is eyeing a rock or mailbox funny lol

Anyway here is the best most recent pic i have of him tacked up...it was from back in aug. My aunt kelly is riding him:

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This is Honey, my ex horse, on our biggest(public/holiday)trail ride,in the second pic the orange shirt is my sister, in the third the pink shirt is my mom. On this ride a tree fell on Honey's large booty and she didnt even notice(it wasnt very big, we were sitting at a rest stop and someone knocked a sapling over on her and i didnt even notice till someone said"hey you notice theres a tree on your horse right?" and i was all like lol) then my sisters girth somehow came undone and Austin ran into a bunch of people. Then Honey decided it would be fun to try to tear me to bits by going through a briar patch just to avoid having to walk behind a TWH that she didnt like then thought when that didnt work that shed just scrape me off on a tree!
It was such a fun ride scrapes, bruises, and all.

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Here’s my two trail horses... my mare Gypsie and my gelding Dakota.

I’ve owned Gypsie for about seven or eight years now (I’ve lost track, lol... I think I got her when I was twelve, though, and I’m nineteen now...). Anyway, when I got her she was between six and eight years old and was barely greenbroke. She’d learned that she could intimidate her owners and get out of work and had a major bucking habit, hated men so much that she would try to hurt them, and was, in my cousins words’ crazy’. I was the only person ‘stupid’ enough to mess with her, and I’m glad that I did, because after about three years she was given to me by her owners for free, after they saw how well we got along. Now Gypsie’s one of the safest horses we have and she loves little kids. She still bucks, but she doesn’t do it to get people off anymore, it’s just a habit. She’s ok with men and will actually let them ride her now without freaking out and flipping herself over and she loves trails and loves to race. She’s fifteen years old now. I did all of her training.





Dakota is my baby... my favorite uncle lost his gelding a few years ago and decided to breed Gypsie for me the next year to, in his words, get a foal and be able to see a young’un running around the pasture again. He never said anything, but his real reason for breeding Gypsie was to get me a foal for my sixteenth birthday... instead of a car. He had Gypsie bred so that Dakota would be born within a week of my own birthday.

Dakota has a forever home with me, too, because he was the last ‘present’ that my uncle ever got me... my uncle died a year later exactly a day before Dakota’s first birthday and exactly six days before my seventeenth birthday. I’ve done all of Dakota’s training from the start and he’s come along just great. He loves to ride and will walk, trot, canter, and gallop and can be brought down from a fast gait to a slow gait and can be ridden on a loose rein. He’s still learning how to move off leg pressure, but he’s doing really well... he lunges really well and knows the voice command for ‘whoa’ (which is surprising, because I don’t really say it a lot when working with him...) and I found out the other day that he can be ridden with nothing but a rope around his neck... he can also be ridden with just a halter. I haven’t ridden him much in/over the mountains and stuff, but next year we’ll start going over more and more dangerous obstacles. My younger cousins love to ride him and my twelve year old cousin wants me to teach him barrels so she can ride him in a few local rodeos... I would like to teach him to jump a little as well, just for fun.

This is paul all saddled up and ready to go. i actually bought a circle Y cutting saddle about 2 weeks after this pic but haven't taken any of him with that one yet. it fits much better and he looks really great in it.
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these are my friends at the barn:
Connie and Sal- this is her property. she lives about 5 minutes from the barn and has 17 acres of wooded trails. we load up the horses and go over there.
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this is Karen and Red. he is in a pretty high level of pararelli and i love to watch them work together
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this is Carrie and her Morgan, Indy and behind her is our B.O. and Tino the QH. he is 28 years old but still acts like a colt.
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after riding in the woods, we had permission from the lady next door to ride in the corn field. it was a great day.
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all of us together at the end of the ride. this was my first trail ride with paul. i had just bought him two days before. he was the perfect gentleman.
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Hollywood and I just getting back from one of our first trail rides together (2 weeks ago).

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Waiting to go riding again

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Okay, that's it, I am sneaking to SC to steal Hollywood. He is absolutely stunning!!!

Lovely horses, stories and pictures!

Gonna show a few new ones of Crow from the bareback ride today :)
I can't imagine anything as wonderful as gaiting and cantering bareback through the woods a cold, frostbit morning on my lovely horse..

It wasn't supposed to be a bareback ride but I forgot the girth at my apartment (by some reason moved it there yesterday) and was too lazy to go back and get it, so I just put a regular pad on Crow instead. And some reflective stuff, it's hunting season and those hunters never know what they're aimig at..Crow's the perfect size and color for a moose.. (A few months ago a shetland pony was shot in its pasture by a hunter who thought it was a hog.. x__x) so I better be safe than sorry and use the reflective stuff at day too now..couldn't fasten the blanket without a saddle so a small one in the tail and a vest on me had to do..

aaanyway..of we went.. Crow was wonderful :) He got that smooth, excited and collected gait, especially after making a few ''leg yields'' across the road to get him back to reality instead of just running..xD And the canter was just wonderful, he didn't try to mix it as usual but kept the gait clean and took the canter cues instantly when asked The air was fresh and some frost was still hiding in the shadows where the sun couldn't melt it. The trees are getting all orange and yellow and the trails havn't become all slippery yet.

At one place of the trail there's these narrow paths with tiny logs across for jumping, both Crow and I love those (as long as they're not too high xD) and it's great taining for him to keep his rythm and balance on those paths as they're more S-shaped than straight, and not very even, and they split at a few places so he has to listen to me on which path to follow between the jumps, great training for me too. We met some hikers which were of course very dangerous with their huge backpacks..xD Silly horse, but I love him anyway :P And there were places where he had to walk on long reins, carefully settng his hooves down to not slip in the mud between rocks and so, a little creek to pass, some sand heaps to climb and canter up and so on.. I really love that trail. It's 10 miles but I always wished it was longer when I get home.. Perhaps I should just take another way someday and look for a new path up the ridge..xD

Here's one of my husband and the girls waiting patiently for me. I think I had to run to the house to pee We were going on normal home ride.
Its just at our hitching rails in our driveway. Everyone else has such interesting photos and stories. Mine is pretty boring
THe second photo is again riding around home, Vida taking a break

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Can some half time trail riders post here???

:)
This is my boy Romeo. I haven't really done trails with him because I was training for barrels, but I think this year we will go on some rides with some more horsey friends! He is basically un-spookable but he was the fast trot that sucks for trails... But I love him anyways!
(This was the first time I ever rode him.... It was at the sale barn. I was just testing him out. I was in a saddle that was too small for me, and he hadn't been ridden in a year+.)


^Being a jerk...


^Turning to go on another little trail.

This is my 2 3/4 year old gelding Bo, (not quite three yet).



This was last saturday, the evening before we rode on a trail ride in Wilburton. I have owned him several months now. He is the best horse I have ever owned! The man behind me is like my father, he took me and Bo under his wing, and is teaching us together =]



This is us actually on the trail.