Showing posts with label Reba. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reba. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
The Great Diversion and Reba
We acquired Amos, as The Great Division has been known, in November on a whim. He is a very nice horse but is definitely a Western pleasure kind of guy. Slow and steady should be his motto. T really enjoyed riding him but it was pretty obvious that he just wasn't the kind of horse that we would really use. We decided to advertise him locally with the hope that we would find him a home where someone would use him as a Western Pleasure horse and put some finish on him. A barnmate's daugher (who knows this horse from another boarding barn) is a riding instructor at a college in New York state and happens to show Western. She was the first one to look at him and ride him and he will be leaving for his new home in about a week and a half. He will be used in the Western riding program at the college as well as being her own personal riding horse. It's the best home that we could have hoped for and we are so happy that he will be part of their program! She is changing him name to Tres (as in the number 3 in Spanish) which I like so much better than Amos.
Reba belonged to a friend of ours who has Mexican Mustangs and, like us, keeps his eye out for them on the rare occassion that one shows up in the area. As a matter of fact, he was going to look at Dash but we got there first :) They had acquired Reba as a 6 month old filly from auction and they raised her and sent her off to Kenny Harlow for training. She has been at a mutual friend's barn for about a year as a lesson horse and was shown at local gymkhana shows last year. She's 8 years old. She has impeccable ground manners, is a total pocket pony and is quite the spitfire under saddle - a fun little horse to ride. She's some kind of QH cross and stands at a sturdy 14 hands. T has been working with her quite a bit to polish her skills and is very much enjoying having her around. She fits in really well with our little herd and she's quite photogenic.
Reba belonged to a friend of ours who has Mexican Mustangs and, like us, keeps his eye out for them on the rare occassion that one shows up in the area. As a matter of fact, he was going to look at Dash but we got there first :) They had acquired Reba as a 6 month old filly from auction and they raised her and sent her off to Kenny Harlow for training. She has been at a mutual friend's barn for about a year as a lesson horse and was shown at local gymkhana shows last year. She's 8 years old. She has impeccable ground manners, is a total pocket pony and is quite the spitfire under saddle - a fun little horse to ride. She's some kind of QH cross and stands at a sturdy 14 hands. T has been working with her quite a bit to polish her skills and is very much enjoying having her around. She fits in really well with our little herd and she's quite photogenic.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Goings On
Phew, time seems to be slipping away from me....the end of the year is always hectic at work and it seems that everything else is crazy too.
So...Tiger came to us with feet that weren't in very good condition. After working with the farrier and discussing with the vet, we all decided that he wasn't going to be the gaming pony we had hoped and we were going to try to find him a good home. Through the power of the Internet and Facebook, we found his former owner from about 10 years ago and we gave him to her. She was thrilled to get him back and we were happy since she already knows his personality and how he rides.
In the meantime, we decided to move back to a farm where we had boarded before that would allow us to work on a project or two and was much better set up for training and conditioning. We moved horses a week and a half ago. Craig and T did most of the packing up while I was at work and it was a pretty smooth transition. Everyone settled in well.
So...an opportunity came up for a quarter pony mare that a friend of ours got when she was 6 months old. Her name is Reba, she's 8 now, very sweet with impeccable ground manners and needs some more saddle time (she was broke by Kenny Harlow and has been in a lesson program recently). She came home on Friday. T has been riding her and she's really happy with her. She's also working with the QH gelding, The Great Diversion (we still haven't come up with a barn name for him). She's going to be busy riding all winter. In the meantime, the vet was at the barn and was checking teeth for me to see who needs to be done. A pleasant surprise - Dash is 8 years old, not the teenager we thought. He's the first horse that is younger than what we thought which is awesome. And T started him on some gaming stuff. That boy can move!!! And she's still working Zip to make sure he doesn't lose too much condition over the winter (show season will be here before you know it!). I've been riding Rooster in the ring and in the woods. We did a 3 hour trail ride on Saturday - beautiful scenery but a tougher ride than I anticipated. He was awesome but we were both pretty tired.
Got a bunch of pics to get through and will get some posted. The temps have dropped and it's been cold even in the sun during the day so I pretty much want to curl up in lots of blankets and stay inside :)
So...Tiger came to us with feet that weren't in very good condition. After working with the farrier and discussing with the vet, we all decided that he wasn't going to be the gaming pony we had hoped and we were going to try to find him a good home. Through the power of the Internet and Facebook, we found his former owner from about 10 years ago and we gave him to her. She was thrilled to get him back and we were happy since she already knows his personality and how he rides.
In the meantime, we decided to move back to a farm where we had boarded before that would allow us to work on a project or two and was much better set up for training and conditioning. We moved horses a week and a half ago. Craig and T did most of the packing up while I was at work and it was a pretty smooth transition. Everyone settled in well.
So...an opportunity came up for a quarter pony mare that a friend of ours got when she was 6 months old. Her name is Reba, she's 8 now, very sweet with impeccable ground manners and needs some more saddle time (she was broke by Kenny Harlow and has been in a lesson program recently). She came home on Friday. T has been riding her and she's really happy with her. She's also working with the QH gelding, The Great Diversion (we still haven't come up with a barn name for him). She's going to be busy riding all winter. In the meantime, the vet was at the barn and was checking teeth for me to see who needs to be done. A pleasant surprise - Dash is 8 years old, not the teenager we thought. He's the first horse that is younger than what we thought which is awesome. And T started him on some gaming stuff. That boy can move!!! And she's still working Zip to make sure he doesn't lose too much condition over the winter (show season will be here before you know it!). I've been riding Rooster in the ring and in the woods. We did a 3 hour trail ride on Saturday - beautiful scenery but a tougher ride than I anticipated. He was awesome but we were both pretty tired.
Got a bunch of pics to get through and will get some posted. The temps have dropped and it's been cold even in the sun during the day so I pretty much want to curl up in lots of blankets and stay inside :)
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