The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

Those are some very lovely horses I like the Morgans best.
But here's a chicken

Because I don't know a thing about horses

Ooh thats a pretty roo.... What breed? Andd..... Anddd is that a canvas roof I see...

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

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I love all that hair.... But would never have it.... Oh the washing and the cleaning and the tail bag and the braiding.... I am TOO lazy... Sigh.

deb

 

[Cynthia12]

Loving the horse photos..this is my fav. so far.

 

[Cynthia12]

Here's what we a lot of around here..the Quarter Horse.

I personally like the Palomino in color, and the Buckskin..there are different colorings of Buckskin.

Known for their short run..the quarter of a mile..they are quick.

 

[Cynthia12]

We also see quite a few Arabians. I rode an Arabian mix when I was young, didn't like her gait. Loved, the Quarter horses that I rode though!
Now these horses have the endurance, lacking the rib, the heart has more room to pump!

 

[drumstick diva]

HENNIBLE, I do LOVE your new avatar. You are doing just fine here.

 

[drumstick diva]

PERCHIE LOVE the horse pictures, I don't care what breed they are - tho I do have favorites. I used to watch FURY on tv and My Friend Flicka , and John Sheldon (Smiley Burnett) with Rex the Wonder Horse, and the "Spin & Marty" segment of Mickey Mouse club. Those were the days!! I had quite a set of plastic horses, little but, could rear on their hind legs etc.


Horse Lovers please check out Sanna's "Arabian Horse Enthusiasts (photo thread) - gorgeous photos and info about some of the greats etc.

 

[perchie.girl]

@Cynthia12 I used to ride games on my horse back when I was a kid... I was sixteen or seventeen at the time. My mare was a doofus... Standardbred she could run but the quick turns not so good. She was built for trotting. Well she was laid up with a stone bruise. We had been slated to ride five miles to another boarding facility for a Gymkhana. My trainers daughter offered me her Quarter horse mare for the games... I jumped on it.

OH MY GAWD.... Her name was Playmate. Sweet horse but not a looker. She had a Roman Nose with a blaze that just accentuated it. But she was what we called at the time a Bull dog Quarter. I believed she had worked cattle in a past life....

I gave her a nudge with my heels just before the timer and her leap forward set me almost behind the saddle..... I spent the next three strides pulling myself back into the saddle. we were only doing the single pole.... Run down go around the pole and come back.... Best time won.... We won big time.

I rode her in Pole bending, Pick up and ride, Barrels and Keyhole. it was a blast and after that first oopsie I was able to keep my behind in the saddle.

Funny thing when I took Katee to the Draft Horse and mule show at Del Mar fair. My trainer offered to ride her in the Games.... Katee and Julie did the Keyhole and Barrels.... What a hoot. Soon as Katee figured out Yes.... Julie does want her to run FAST she Kicked it. Not as fast as a light horse.... But she thought she was running fast....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

We also see quite a few Arabians. I rode an Arabian mix when I was young, didn't like her gait. Loved, the Quarter horses that I rode though!
Now these horses have the endurance, lacking the rib, that heart has more room to pump!

My last horse was half Arab and Half Standardbred.... A bay like the one above but a lighter hue... I love bays too. I trained Marc to harness and was hooked. WE did everything together for fifteen years... I called him my leisure suit Larry. He would leannn over the fence if you even hinted at having a carrot.... and give you this pleading soulful look... you just had to give him one. He would also open his corral gate then go down two corrals to his best buddy and let him out too..... They would always be found at the Hay stack.

Every once and a while he would get excited for the canter and run like Peppi Le Pew.... I would giggle so hard....
sigh... Lost him to cancer. He would be close to 40 now.
deb

 

[Cynthia12]

lol Deb, yes, those quarter horsed are quick. They are the ones you see in the rodeos..doing those barrels..although some of the girls like using the Arabians for barrels too.

I didn't do barrels, I ran through the corn fields though, and, up and down sand hills, and through the streams, and yes, jumped a few ditch/streams too. Oh those were the good ol days! I wish I could still sit a horse. My hips just say no. :/

I used to ride a Palimino..the color of the one above, up and around the foothills of these mountains..always bareback..loved that old gal.