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Congratulations! He's a beauty, and looks so kind.

@HollowOfWisps Holy Toledo, how gorgeous! How old and how tall was he when you bought him, compared to today? What breed?

Good for you, you obviously have a talent in the horse industry, so you should continue to pursue what you love and find the right trainers to help you develop your horse talents into a life's work. I'm sure you often hear things from different people like, "OMG, majoring in Humanities...

Porkchop is beautiful! And your picture shows such a lovely bond between you and him. I really hope you find a nice horse to lease or buy nearby, for you and your youngster. When I used to teach and be a judge for Pony Club, my favorites were the kids who were around 11! They were ideal...

Uggh! I so feel you, with her feet! TBs have notoriously complicated feet, and t's so hard to find good farriers, you try not to make judgements about what they do, because it's a challenge to even get them to show up. Especially harder for you, since you don't officially own Ginger, so you...

TBs only have to be tattooed if they're entered in a race or train at an actual official racetrack. Lots of breeding and training facilities have training tracks, it's likely Ginger trained on one of those in her youth. I'm so jealous you moved to such a nice facility to ride in, with such...

Oh, I'm so sorry. Sometimes there's no obvious illness, the oldsters just know when they're ready to go. I'm sure she was grateful you were with her when it was her time.

So true! Laminitis, if it's caught early before the coffin bone has rotated, can be corrected with the right hoof care, and the rest of their life on a low-sugar diet, and limited grass-pasture.

Why did he move so you couldn't lease him any more? Was your lease temporary until someone bought him? That happened to me a couple times various many years ago, so heartbreaking. At least your cutie looks happy in his new home. I hope you can still ride.

Maybe Ginger recognizes it as a racehorse training facility and she's harking back to her youth as a racehorse? Thinking she might get to race and hoping she's still fast, or more likely, just enjoying the more open landscape at her new place. LOL, honestly every picture you post of Ginger she...

Lots of ground work! With praise and the occasional treat when they pay attention to you and make a good try to do what you ask. Start by leading through easy obstacles like pole mazes on the ground, progress to walking over poles, a tarp on the ground, more advanced trail obstacles if you...

Aw, your cutie couldn't look any less like a monster!

I don't really have mobility issues, except for the typical ones due to advanced age! Still, I can understand - I don't enjoy riding anyone over 16.2 any more - well, I totally enjoy the riding, but I'm worried about getting off. Even dismounting my 15.2 OTTB, I can't really spring down any...

That's a relief to hear your experience! Since I was kind of putting aside my fear of how scary it looked, because I have a lot of trust in my farrier, who's taken care of my horses hooves of various breeds, for close to 20 years. So far, her crack has not persisted above the weird horizontal...

Mine are both super fuzzy! In the cutest of ways. My farrier did an interesting job on my mare 3 weeks ago - she's had a slight hoof crack for several months, that normally should have grown out, especially since she is always shod so there's no stress on her hoof to make the crack bigger...

Wow! Look at all those new strong muscles in her hindquarters! Not that she looked bad in the old picture, just not very fit. I'm glad you resurrected this thread, I'm definitely a fan of Ginger.

The bit is too wide as well. A bit the right width for her mouth, and a noseband, would help your sister have more control without having to be cruel.

If you can find one. It seems like here, there are a lot of good riders and trainers compared to the number of decent untrained horses.

You posting these videos means I get to offer my inexperienced, unsolicited opinion, right? :idunno I'm so far from a dressage expert, only ever done Eventing dressage, where my level of counter-canters are on a 20m circle, you only ever do one flying change in each direction, and pirouettes are...

Totally agree! Besides the issue of falling, how could a child learn the leg aids and get the proper results on a horse that's too big for them?