Molly is my 7yr. old mare. Trail riding right now but hope to get to doing more later on. She's eager to do whatever you want, but has alot to learn. She was a halter horse, owned by a farm in iowa.
Merlin is my 18h Registered Irish Sport Horse, that is a cross between a Registered Irish Draft & Registered Thoroughbred. I fox hunted him in Ireland and he was so bombproof I brought him back with us last summer. He is 13 years old and should be able to hunt up until about 20 years old.
Monty is my 10 yr old daughters Conamara/Welch cross. He is 5 and she has been riding/jumping him since he was 3. She has competed at wills park and chateu elan. He was fox hunted in Ireland by a 15 year old friend of my daughter.
We will begin conditioning this week in prep for the start of fox hunting season in September.
1st pic is from Ireland when I bought Merlin, my daughter was 7 at the time and was riding/jumping him so you can see he is bomb proof.
2nd pic is Merlin standing in the livery yard in Ireland "saddled up" before heading to the hunt.
3rd pic is Monty the Conamara grazing near the first cross country pole jump I installed on our farm here in the states. I'll have to get better pic's of him, thought I had some handy but will have to track them down.
4th pic is Merlin at the fence, Monty behind and the pole jump behind him.
I am getting ready to build a whole x-country course so I'll cronicle it in the hobbies section with pics through out the construction....
Here is some more of the foxhunting in Ireland. 1st 2 pics are of me on Merlin jumping some big open ditches. You can't get an appreciation of the size of the ditches so I posted a 3rd pic where the cameraman got down in a ditch that wasn't has grown up with grass/weeds. Unfortunately his memory card got full as I was about 2 horses behind the lady on the paint horse. I thought that shot gives you a much better appreciation for the size of those open ditches. Crazy huh?
Looks fun to me... I love to ride. Here is Bandit my 20yr. old Buckskin appaloosa.
1st pic is at 8yr. old stud I'll try and find another pic. i had to resize the one i had. It was the best i could do right now.
2nd is at 20yr. old
He has been shown as western pleasure.
I use to team pen on him untill all the guys i know just stopped.
He will really run the heck out of a cow, It's a blast...
Hope to get back started into something soon...
First Picture: Boss, 7 year old Quarter Horse Gelding
Second Picture: Amigo, 8 year old Quarter Horse Gelding
Third Picture: Toi, 24 year old Arabian Mare (picture was taken just a few weeks ago. The old gal still got it).
Fourth Picture: Outlaw, 4 year old Quarter Horse Gelding
Boss, Amigo, and Outlaw are all Cowboy Mounted Shooting horses. Toi is pretty much retired. When we're not on the road doing the Cowboy Mounted Shooting thing we do a lot of trail riding.
This is Murphy, 8 year old John Mule. He's not "mine" but I had to get some mule love in this thread, haha! He rides western and drives single or double.
I could post more of the horses and MULES! I have the pleasure of working with, but they're not "mine." I just have access to play and ride when I want, but I don't have the time and I'm working on my nerves.
My girlfriend on my 4 yo Quarter Horse "fly". No, not because when she runs she 'flies', but because she's annoying as a 'fly'! Those kind of 'in your back pocket' horses don't come easy though, so i'm guess im lucky. We've done everything from trail riding with her to rodeos, even a little shooting with a .22 rifle off her back.
I thought I'd throw some more mule pictures in...we've got 2 gaited, riding mules. The first is Solomon, we raised him out of a reg. App. mare, he's 10. The second is Maude, out of a reg. QH mare, she's 15...got her when she was a yearling from David Lingerfelt in Canton. Both are 16hds. and excellent on trails. We also show Solomon all over the Southeast...Columbia Mule Day, Great Celebration in Shelbyville, Ider, AL., Guysie, GA, Perry...He wins every color class and most halter and conformation classes. He does pretty good in Western Pleasure and timed events, too. We also have 2 Haflinger mares for pulling our wagon...Dolly and Minnie. Minnie has a 5 month old mule filly, Cha-Cha. I hope to have her for my riding mule and to work to the wagon. The last picture is of our youngest son, Jordan and Solomon during the Celebration in Shelbyville.
Sharon - I Love the spots on Solomon. He's a good lookin' mule.
Mac12 - I don't mean to tell a man his business, but that flank cinch/back cinch shouldn't be loose and hanging down like that. It should be up against their belly [but not tight.]
Ok here are my 2 hay burners and my daughters.The first one is called My Doc Holiday Two, He is a PMU baby that I adopted at 4 1/2 months from Canada He is aMorgan /Belgian cross and is almost 5 yrs old still a stud till this winter.
The second one is called Obvious Bailey (Buddy) He is a 7 yr old reg quarter Horse that I got for free, He came with the 4 horse gooseneck trailer. One of the best horses I ever been around really sweet ride Trying to teach him( and me) barrels right now.
The third one is Daniel he is my daughters 17.2 hand thoroughbred/belgian cross, they call him a warmblood but he has no papers. he is 9yrs old and leaving for my daughters house soon (yeah)
There is also a mustang across the road that is part of the family he's called renegade and is the best trail horse you could ask for have to get a pic of him too.
We had a Jenny and she was really cool I traded her to a man for hay 2 yrs ago no digital pics but we are mule people two
Would any of you horse riders be interested in a free horse? She is getting some age on her (23 I think) but she is still in good shape. She is a registered Quarter Horse and my 8 year old daughter rides her by herself.
She belongs to my father-in-law and is located in the Cumming/Gainesville area. Come ride her. PM me if interested.