Attention Horse & Pony Owners!

[Painted Calls]

Hey, you got one like this with a lead rope attached?

I've probably got the original somewhere. There was a lead and a human in that pic lol.

 

[littledog]

I’m a girl and I started out in 1973 w my first job only paying $150 a week as a professional groom, but the experience w that trainer was priceless and led to a lot of amazing adventures and a lifetime of learning something new everyday.

Same year 1973 for me, starting out in the "professional" horse world! For me is wasn't exactly a paid job, I was twelve and had been riding for a few years, so to work off the lease on my first horse, I mucked stalls, groomed and tacked up lesson horses, and moved many wheelbarrow loads back and forth to replace mud with gravel.
Definitely developed a work ethic, learned a lot, and later went on to a working student position with an Event trainer.

 

[littledog]

And only you can imagine an Appaloosa kicking all the fancy Warmblood’s butts in Dressage up and down the whole Eastern Seaboard. He also ran barrels, could jump well over 4 ft, did eventing, survived a bowel resection. He was quite a horse out of many diamonds in the rough I found.

I can imagine...in 1995 I bought an older Appy auction mare, intending her to be nothing more than a tool-around-the-trails horse, but mostly a pasture nanny for my Arab-Trakehner colt while he was growing up.
My Appy turned out to be the best horse ever - perfectly dependable on sketchy trails, and at low-level eventing, not too shabby in the dressage arena, had a lot of fun at our local hunt club.
She not only taught me to really ride (she started out as a dirty stopper over jumps, I learned to really use my leg, and stay balanced and focused during her various shenanigans) she went on to teach several Pony Club eventing kids who I leased her to after my colt grew up.
Appaloosas can do everything! But they make you work for it!

 

[addctd2plnts]

Hi everyone, would any of you be interested in participating in an Official BYC horse/pony contest? The only requirement is that you have access to a horse or pony and a camera.

Sure, I have 7 horses in different breeds (2 Paso Finos, a Missouri Foxtrotter, a Tennesse Walking Horse, An Appendix, a draft/Morgan mix, and a Saddlebred) My one Paso Fino is very photogenic. He's pinto with a big thick mane. Every time my son would ride him the little girls go crazy LOL

 

[589205]

Found an old photograph of my 1st Appaloosa pony - Carly:

 

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[Painted Calls]

I found a bunch of old show pics. I have jumped through 2 hoops so far to get them to my phone. I'll try for more hoops later.

 

[589205]

I found a bunch of old show pics. I have jumped through 2 hoops so far to get them to my phone. I'll try for more hoops later.

I feel you...I still got a bunch of old cellphones that I need to find some memory cards for to transfer files & pics over to new devices

 

[littledog]

Well, the first one is in a halter, this was 27 years ago when he was about 3 months old. Sorry it's sideways - scanned from an old paper photograph. The second one is at one of his first events, aged 5.

 

[NightTheSmolHen]

I don't show with my horse, but do these count?