Two more precious new arrivals!

March 19th, 2008, Ana-Alisia and *Sandman presented us with a gorgeous Curly half Arabian colt. http://www.curlystandardplace.com/index.php?display=98 His name is *Sand Runner - hopefully he will live up to his name and be an endurance contender!

Then, on March 20th, 2008 we had a bright red filly born to the Shetland pony Stormy and the Curly pony sire is *VJB Man in the Moon. Wow is this little girl CUTE!

2008 New Arrivals!!

Three, yes three new foals so far this year - all sired by Sandman!

Two were born on the same day - March 10th, 2008.

First was *Sum R Son, his dam is our Canadian/Percheron mare Sum R Canadian - he is very well put together and a handsome dark bay colt.

Next was a lovely coal black filly from our fullbred mare *DSF Cassandra. We are calling this one *Spiffy Curl - she is just precious!

March 13th, our racing bred Appaloosa mare, Cordova True Colours, presented us with a loudly coloured, huge, Curly colt - we are calling him *Sandman's True Colours.

Fuzzy Horse Show

Anastasia is 18 now - and she is more than happy to be showing Sandman this year. March 9th was their first time out together and they did just great!

I also took *Spar's Barefoot Contessa, it was her very first horse show and I rode her in walk/trot classes. I was so happy with how she went and the judge was quite impressed with her too.

Amazing Grace

You know some days terrible things happen - things that make you want to wish that that day could just somehow undo it, so that you could re-live it so that it could be replayed differently.

A couple of weeks ago I had one such day. I went out to feed my horses and found my horse gravely ill. This was my friend, my pal, my riding buddy, Amazing Grace, or Gracie as she was affectionately known by me and most people.

Gracie appeared to be waiting for me and within about 1/2 an hour of me finding her that morning, she died, with myself and my daughter Anastasia by her side.

Gracie was so special to me and I miss her terribly. Give your special pets an extra pat today and every day - you never know when it is time for them to go - Gracie was just 9 years old.

CC and the Horse Show

Well, it is that time of year again - our favorite fun show of the whole year!! The Halloween Show! Unfortunately, we were so busy this year we did not get a chance to put together cool costumes as we do most years, but Danielle and I DID attend on our ponies. Danielle brought *Cinnamon and I brought *CC. Danielle did great on her pony and she and I rode a couple of pairs classes together which was a whole lot of fun.

I was "forced" to ride *CC in the Jack Benny class - I kept insisting that I wasn't old enough.....but my horse show friends just laughed at me LOL. So *CC did really awesome and the judge kept saying how much she liked her - liked how she moved, how she behaved - she even said that she was a perfect size for me - to which I laughed a lot! Still, I know that *CC looks fine with me on her and I'm nearly 5'3" tall so she would be very suitable for a small adult or a child. This was *CC's first experience with a horse show and she was just wonderful - she gave pony rides to "tiny" children for hours. It will be a sad day when we find that perfect home for this pony, she is one in a million!

So we didn't get any pictures, but if I do get some others that were in attendance I will be sure to post them here - in the meantime, happy trails!

*Serenade goes to her first show!

Well, it was a fun/training Arabian show and I took Mirage and her filly *Sandman's Serenade to show them in the halter classes. The judge's comments were very encouraging - she told me what a lovely mare she thought Mirage was and she also commented on *Serenade's suspension so I was pleased! Here is a picture of proud Mom and daughter - since I was on my own at the show I took this picture when we got home.

*DSF Cassandra and Danielle

Well, *DSF Cassandra (aka CC) is doing SO well that at the urging of some friends I decided that my daughter Danielle (10) could safely ride this pony - and so I put her on and here is the result!

I also took a bit of video - you can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk2t4g_1Vgw

*CC is reluctantly offered for sale - someone is going to get an incredible riding pony!

Super Summertime....

*Sandman and I attended another show in July - it went well, we showed First Level, Tests One and Two - he is such a good boy and I was very happy with him. Here is a picture of us from that day - the photographer said it was the best halt she captured all day!

*DSF Cassandra (aka CC) is now under saddle and I'm calling her *CC the Wonder pony. This pony has just been the BEST horse to saddle train. She is easy, forward, obedient, willing, non spooky and fun on the trails - just amazing! Here is a picture of us from the trail the other day. Not sure if you can tell from this picture, but we are on a rather steep trail and Anastasia is taking the picture from up above us...