PHOTOS: Beautiful Day With My Horses

Hey horsie fans. It is a beautiful day in my neck of the woods, about 82 degrees, sunny, breezy with little humidity. I spent the morning riding my big grey horse Regal Bull, and giving him a bath. I then went out in the field and played with a couple of the fillies, one three months old and the other about three and a half. Thought I would put up some photos for you all to enjoy. My little Dutch Warmblood baby with the blaze is Ami; the Standardbred filly is called Early Shirley.

Here's me and the girls:


Here's Ami showing she has watched too much MTV and thinks she ain't no Holloback Girl:


Here's me and Regal Bull, after a long training session and a nice bath:



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animals. Nice website too.

I thought about baths today for the 5 I have at home but it is 103 and just too hot for me. So they have an open barn with fans going and a mister outside the doors, they are much happier than they would be doing beauty school today but I HAVE to get those tails done pretty soon!

You pictures and horses are lovely. I am going to go check your site out now.

Ours is a hunter barn, primarily, although the owners also race Standardbreds.

since I started my farm. Way too much work so I don't ride nearly as much as I would like to. Hopefully when the house is built and I can just walk to the barn I can get back to it. Now I have to drive out there twice a day, it is only 10 miles but still, it cuts into the fun time.

Mostly ranch and cattle work. My horses are Quarters, bred for cutting cattle. Big, good, solid foundation stock and spoiled rotten.

My grey gelding Regal Bull is just beyond spoiled. He follows me around the barn like a puppy dog, gets into everything. He's very curious and extremely good at opening stuff... stall doors, trunks, anything that might have treats. He has figured out how to manipulate snaps and many latches. It is kind of annoying to come to the barn in the morning and find that he has let himself out and gone "visiting".

He also really likes to play with me, which is fun, but sometimes a bit scary. He can't be turned out with other horses because he really doesn't LIKE other horses, and gets kind of rough when he plays. So I become surrogate horse. When I go out into the field with him, he will play gelding games... run up to me with the head nodding, nostrils flaring, rattling and blowing. He likes to "herd me" which can be quite annoying, but I'm in HIS field, so I let him. He and I often run together in the morning, which is fun, but he doesn't always respect my space and will show off and as he blows by me, kick his rear legs up in the air coming uncomfortably close to my head.

He is also a big attention hog. When we are one on one, it is bad enough, but if there are a lot of people in the barn, he has this whole routine he goes through to get attention. He "smiles", he kisses, and just goofs off to get a rise out of everyone. Love that horse.

Here's a video of how spoiled he is: Spoiled Rotten Horse. You need QuickTime to look at this, and high speed internet.

my quick time is not working but I have bookmarked your site to go to when I figure it out.

OK, I know it is impossible but Bull sounds just like one of mine. He gets along with the others just fine but he is the smartest animal I have ever seen. Like Bull, no latch is safe. Here was his latest, greatest trick.

I put vinyl fencing around my dry lot. Electric on top of course. Well Jones (My big bully of a horse) figured out that he could pop out the slats and get out. Fortunately the others did not follow him out and he likes to be caught. This happened day after day until I secured it better with T posts. Then I would come in and find only the middle slat out but all the horses in. That went on until one day it was just getting cold and had rained. When I came in I found him in a stall but he was steaming and slightly out of breath. I looked at the fence and since it had rained I was able to see hoof prints in the dirt outside the fence. I followed them all over the outer pastures until at one point they became deeper and longer like he had been running. Well, I did not have a muffler on my big truck and he must have been all these weeks listening for me and running back, skinnying between the slats and positioning himself in a stall like a good boy. I fixed him with another run of electric fence. All my stall doors have "locks" on them because of him. He smiles on cue, answers questions by nodding or shaking his head. If you ask him if he wants broccoli he will stick out his tongue. He will also lick your face until it is raw if you let him. I am convinced with enough time I could teach him to do just about anything if he wasn't such a huge horse and such a bully. Still, I am going to try if I can ever teach him that my feet are not for walking on.

Isn't it fun to run with them? In the spring especially when mine are all feeling frisky I like to go out and jump around. That gets them bucking and snorting and then we run together. Incredible feeling if a little scary as they blow by. Watch your head. Bull sounds like a wonderful pal. I love my horses, just love them. Nothing like their huge love and the way they care for you when you are working together. What a wonderful connection. The babies are loads of fun aren't they? I have had two and will most likely have no more, too expensive and the market is glutted right now. Still, it was so wonderful to be there for their birth and watch them grow.

i clicked on 'riley's first bath' at random. tooo cute!

is some buckets of water. NICE fillies, nice Reagal Bull! We have an Barb-Arab and a Trakehner. 20 and 22 years old.

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