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http://www.curlystandardplace.comShellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-65393843263072541552013-07-30T14:35:00.001-07:002013-07-30T14:35:33.476-07:00My special guests from far away - I mean REALLY far!This past weekend I had some really awesome guests from MONGOLIA. One of my guests was my best friend, Julie Veloo, she lives in Mongolia with her husband (they are there for work) and the other two guests were a couple that Julie and her husband have become friends with over the years that they have lived there. These visitors from Mongolia have never been on a holiday, never been on a plane, never left Mongolia and now here they are in Canada having an amazing holiday!..... What I can say though is that they CAN really ride horses! <br /><br />I have to admit that I was a bit apprehensive about taking out these people who don't really speak any English (thankfully my friend speaks Mongolian) and I was also quite proud to be able to put 5 out of 7 riders on Curlies! The two exceptions were my partner Warren (he was on his NSH) and my other local friend who was taking the picture for us (she was on her own horse).<br /><br />The pictured riders and horses are (from left to right):<br />
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Warren on his NSH<br />
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Baagii (he is a REAL horseman!) on *Charm </div>
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Saraa (Baagii's wife) on *Serenade </div>
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Anastasia on *Joe</div>
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The highlight of the day though, was Baagii asked if he could gallop *Charm and I said sure, so we went to the top of a hill and he came galloping up after us - he was standing up to gallop! (Mongolian style!) on my beautiful Curly horse *Charm! It was amazing and I sure wish that I had managed to get a photo of this, but I will forever have the memory of it!</div>
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Here are a few more photos from the ride - it was a special and exceptional experience for me to play host to these really neat people.</div>
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Finally, Saraa insisted that Warren and I try on their Dells (sorry for the likely mis-spell on this!), so Warren and I played dress-up. Warren got to also try on Baagii's "very' cool hat - wow was that a neat hat! Left to right are: Julie, Saraa, me, Warren, Baagii.</div>
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Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-52796039882235607012013-06-27T09:55:00.000-07:002013-06-27T09:55:03.583-07:00Endurance!It has been a "very" busy couple of weeks, beginning with our first endurance ride of the season, held here in Summerland on Saturday, June 15th. It all stated out SO well, we arrived Friday evening and vetted our horses in, Warren made me a wonderful camp spaghetti dinner and we bedded down the horses, they were content!<br />
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By the way, if anyone notices that *Serenade's tail this year is a bit short.... it is :( The orphan colt that I rescued last year ate the tails off of several of my horses, *Serenade's, he ate at least a foot of it in one night!<br />Anyhow, a good night's sleep and we were up and saddled and ready to go at 7:20 for a 7:30 start time. Unfortunately, at 7:20, Warren's horse Dakota could no longer stand the suspense of the pre-ride and he took off on his own! He galloped out of there like the devil was on his tail! I got on Serenade and went after him of course, thinking that he would run a mile or two and then stop and eat the plentiful grass, but NO, he was on a race (or so he thought) and I followed him out for about 5 miles, finally catching up to him and then I ponied him back to the campground! We did about 10 miles in about 1 hour and 20 minutes! So when we got back we decided to go out on the ride anyway even though we were at the far end of the riders... To Finish Is To Win.... so off we went on our first loop. The first loop went well and we had our break - here are some pictures of the vet check. These pictures also show a bit better view of our Curly horse shirts :)<br />
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So after our 45 minute hold we went out again on our second (my third!) loop but unfortunately, we made a wrong turn and followed the wrong set of flagging and even though we did the right number of miles, (actually about 10 more!) we didn't get a completion on this ride! It was disappointing, but still, *Serenade did well over 30 miles that day and did a great job for us.<br />Here are a couple of photos of us coming back from the second loop.<br />
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So it was a lot of riding, exhausting and yet it all turned out okay - it is always very scary when a horse takes off fully tacked in the middle of nowhere.... so we were very grateful to get him back!<br /><br />So this past weekend we did a 12 hour drive from our home to the ridesite in Devon, AB (near Edmonton) to do a 25 mile endurance ride. *Serenade was a bit tired after the drive (we took 2 days to get there).</div>
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We had a great time at Devon, the people in Alberta are the best! The weather was great, the food and company was awesome! There was no one taking pictures though, so I thought I would share with you our completion certificate and also our vet score card, front and back. As you can see, we were in the top ten, placing 7th, which put us in the running for BC or Best Condition - we didn't get that prestigious award, but I was happy to be considered for it! </div>
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Okay, well, we are pretty tired now! Resting up for the upcoming Calgary Stampede, we are going to be part of the Light Horse Display again this year, July 5, 6, 7, 8, 9th, so stay tuned for our blog about that!</div>
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Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-44793233363033051012013-05-13T10:07:00.001-07:002013-05-13T10:07:40.176-07:00New ArrivalI am a week behind, but please welcome our newest addition to the farm - this is a colt from *BCF Icon and DKH Lacey. We are working on a name for him, nothing firm as of yet. Lacey is known to throw big foals and he is no exception, he was a big boy right from, measuring just about 11hh.<br />
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Shelly in Summerland, BC <br />
<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/" target="_blank">Curly Standard Place</a>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-67504706986079776642013-02-28T16:03:00.000-08:002013-02-28T16:03:00.938-08:00Where has the time gone?I can't believe that my last post on here was almost a year ago! I always have good intentions and then forget or time gets away from me or whathaveyou lol<br />
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Well, we have had foals born, horses trained, attended shows and endurance rides - there you are caught up on the past year now LOL<br />
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Some highlights - three lovely foals born - two sired by *BCF Icon and one sired by the lovely Arabian stallion Aur Mystique - all three are really spectacular - so pleased with them. Here are links to their pages on my website: <br />
<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/index.php?display=132" target="_blank">*Izzabella</a><br />
<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/index.php?display=133" target="_blank">*Indiana Jones</a><br />
<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/index.php?display=134" target="_blank">*Baron Rouge</a><br />
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*Icon was started under saddle - did fabulous! Had the winter off and will be back ridden soon - we intend to show him in dressage this year!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Most recently, this past weekend I was lucky enough to acquire one of
the smallest Curly Miniature mares in the world! Her name is *Patty Cake and
while she does not belong to me (still owned by Mary Stewart of <a href="mhtml:{0BB79D28-9EBB-4534-A0E4-A6F59321E8AD}mid://00000865/!x-usc:http://www.firesideminiaturecurlyhorses.com/" target="_blank">http://www.firesideminiaturecurlyhorses.com/</a>) I will have
*Patty here at my farm over the next couple of years for promotions for Mary's
mini breeding program and also for my full sized program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">These Curly Miniatures are perfect for an aging horse
community that still wants to have horses and would like them for driving or for
a pet or for grand-kids!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I plan to take *Patty to as many horse events (and non
horse events too!) as I can manage and think of. She is so tiny she won't be
intimidating and she is so Curly it is pretty obvious she is a a horse with a
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Have a look at the slideshow I put together of her - at
one point there were 13 horses lining the other side of the fence all google
eyeing her LOL. <a href="http://photopeach.com/album/5bmo6j" target="_blank">http://photopeach.com/album/5bmo6j</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Okay - I will try to be good an update this more often!</span></div>
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Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-52940752090610993182012-03-06T08:18:00.000-08:002012-03-06T08:18:00.569-08:00*JoeWell, our Curly/Arabian gelding has been ridden all winter and he is really coming along extremely well! I am so pleased with him.....<br />
In December he was ridden for a month by <a href="http://horsesthatwork.ca/" target="_blank">Trevor Mertes</a> of Horses That Work, *Joe and Trevor did some ring work, but mostly rode out on the trails. <br />
As soon as *Joe came home from there, my eventer friend Carolin Sherman began riding him - lots of work in the arena and a bit of trails. We have been lucky with the weather and I have managed to get some great photos of them together. The first one is with Trevor on the trail... the rest are of Carolin and *Joe working together. Once Spring is officially here (and my ring clears up more!) there will be a whole lot more to blog about!<br />
Shelly<br />
<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/" target="_blank">Curly Standard Place</a><br />
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So, too back up a bit.<br />
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I recognize that people really do like the pinto colour on their horses and now, since I have *Icon and since HE has colour, it occurred to me to be on the look out for a nice (hopefully homozygous) pinto coloured mare. So when Jazzmyn's ad came to me I was intrigued and I decided to go and have a look. I was happy to find a mare with decent size (she is 15.3hh) excellent conformation, known Paint horse pedigree (including some TB!), and that lovely black and white colour, but what "really" sold her to me was her amazing, kind and friendly disposition...... a person would have thought she was a Curly! LOL She will fit right in with my kind and friendly people orientated Curlies and that is just super.<br />
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Jazzmyn is a 2003 fullbred Paint mare, no papers (yet) but I am working on that! She is trained to ride, apparently likes to jump! So she will be put back under saddle this spring and she will also be bred to either *Sandman or *Icon - I just can't decide! If anyone were interested in a pre-purchased foal from Jazzy and either of my stallions, now is the time to speak up as you can choose the sire for her foal at this time!<br />
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Oh ya, in my search for her pedigree information, it was pointed out to me that she is actually a "tovero" (I am learning) and what that means is that she carries both the overo and tobiano genetics and will have around a 75% chance to throw colour to her offspring, no matter what stallion she is bred to - so not quite homozygous - but still a good bet! So with either of my two stallions she should cross very well!<br />
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Below are some photos of her and here is a link to a slideshow of some more - of course, as spring comes and we get new ones this will be updated: <br />
<a href="http://photopeach.com/album/i4vie1?ref=more" target="_blank">Jazzmyn slideshow</a><br />
here is a link to her page on my website: <br />
<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/index.php?display=130" target="_blank">Jazzmyn</a><br />
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Shelly<br />
<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/" target="_blank">Curly Standard Place</a>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-53888573650254662712012-01-27T15:49:00.001-08:002012-02-16T09:07:18.353-08:00Sharing *SerenadeWell, it has been almost two weeks since we said good-bye to Cap. He was a good friend and constant companion to my dear friend Maryan - who is understandably heartsick about losing him.<br />
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So, I did quite a bit of soul searching and finally convinced myself that I can share *Serenade with Maryan. The truth is that I am absolutely loving riding *Serenade and she has been so important in the healing of my chronic neck injury, but even before any of this happened I had already talked to Maryan about her grand-daughter coming to ride Serenade this summer and Maryan already tried her Serenade out. And, the fact is I won't have the time to ride Serenade as much as she should be ridden and she will really blossom with Maryan!!<br />
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Now, I know down the road that Maryan will be looking to get herself another horse and that is fine. I know my friend and I know she loves having her own horse! And, like I told her once we put this other sadness aside horse shopping can actually be fun. But in the meantime, she can lean on *Serenade, spend time with her, dote on her and it will only be very good for both of them.<br />
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So here I am lifting my glass to both *Serenade and Maryan - I hope they can enjoy each others company for the time being and we will see what the future holds for us all..... Maryan says she can ride *Serenade in endurance for me this year - that would be awesome!<br />
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adendum - I got a few photos of Maryan and *Serenade the other day - along with *Serenade's dam Mirage. Maryan is going to be helping me out with both of these girls, she used to ride Mirage years ago - before she even had Cap: <br />
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<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/">Curly Standard Place</a>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-2701282086005971452012-01-14T14:37:00.000-08:002012-01-14T14:37:32.813-08:00Good-bye to a friendLast week our older Arabian gelding Captiwijon (affectionaely known as Cap) slipped on the ice after a night of freezing rain. At the time he seemed to be okay, maybe a little tender on his back end, but really seemed okay. We moved him anyway from the icy area to somewhere with good footing. So a couple of days ago I went out to feed them in the a.m and he was on three legs - his right hind leg was just dangling, looked broken to me. The vet was called, x-rays were taken and they were inconclusive but it was decided that we would give him a couple of days to see if he could recover from it. That night he laid down in the deeply bedded stall and in the morning it was clear that he wanted up but couldn't do it on his own. We have a lot of wonderful neighbours and friends and with about 8 of us assisting him he was able to get up. He had a pretty good day, lots of drugs to keep him comfortable and his owner (she boards him here) spent the whole day with him and then stayed over night last night with him.<br />
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This morning it was pretty clear that his three good legs were just not going to be able to hold him up much longer. The decision to call the vet back was made and he came out right away and kindly, humanely put the old fellow down. What a sad sad day for us and especially my dear friend Maryan - she truly and sincerely loved that horse.<br />
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Now a bit of celebration of his life. <br />
We were introduced to Cap 6 years ago when he was an 18 year old stallion.<br />
He was originally purchased out of California by his then owner for quite a bit of $$ - this was during the hey day of Arabian breeding, before the horse market fell apart. At the same time a lovely little bay mare was purchased, Calika, she and Cap have been together their whole lives.<br />
When he was 18, Maryan and I purchased him as a stallion - we were very impressed with him and his very good manners - but he was not trained to ride and we soon fixed that and had him under saddle before long. <br />
In the Spring we bred him to *Bijou and ever after that he had a special place in his heart for her - he loved her!<br />
We then decided that he was going to be the perfect riding partner for Maryan so we had him gelded and then they really became fast and close partners.<br />
Not long after that, Calika's owner brought here to board as well - they were reunited!<br />
Maryan rode him all year round - she doted on him, cared for him, just adored this funny old horse and it was mutual - he adored her right back.<br />
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Today we said good-bye to him - he fought to overcome this for two and a half long days, but it was pretty obvious this a.m. that there was only one final act of kindness for him.<br />
Good-bye Cap - you funny, silly, brave and very lovely boy.<br />
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<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/">Curly Standard Placw</a>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-17835455083772860262012-01-04T08:56:00.000-08:002012-01-04T08:56:31.319-08:00I forgot about *Tessa!How could I forget about my main riding partner?! I have been trying to keep up my training and fitness level on *Tessa, along with riding/training all the other horses that I am currently working with, it has been fun, but also a lot of work!<br />
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*Tessa is like my crown jewel - I simply adore her, she is a daughter of my deceased mare *Chip's Barefoot Babe (Babe was a piece of my heart!) and her sire is *Spartacus, so she has really excellent breeding and obviously the ability to go in lots of directions. <br />
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I have shown her in dressage and endurance and done some jumping with her and lots of trail miles. She has had two wonderful foals for us, both sired by *Sandman, a lovely grulla pinto filly 5 years ago and in 2010 she had a gorgeous black filly.<br />
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So, *Tessa has always been a horse with quite a bit of "go" and she has a spook serious enough in her that I would never consider her a beginner's horse! But a year ago when I put her back to work (after weaning her foal) she was just SO much worse than she has ever been - she has been a bundle of nerves that at times has been at best unpleasant to ride and sometimes even seemed to be a bit dangerous, both to me and to herself!<br />
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Most cases of horses changing their behaviour so drastically can be pinpointed to being pain related, so I have begun a quest to find out what element has changed for *Tessa - I want my horse back! I started with treating her for ulcers, and this month I will have the chiropractor look at her, but in the meantime I read something about minerals that sounded like it could be her problem. You see, when my mares are pregnant and lactating they get a loose mineral fed to them every day to make sure that their foals are getting enough minerals to grow properly. Once weaned they foal then gets the minerals fed daily until they are about 2 or 3 years old. Of course *Tessa was no exception, she was fed the minerals until she was 3 and she was bred at that age and continued to get them through her pregnancy and beyond. Anyhow, when I did all the math, it has been this last year when she has NOT received the minerals that her behaviour became over the top. So I have put her back on the loose mineral and also on a daily dose of magnesium, she has been on this for about a month now and I think I DO see a difference. Yesterday I took her out for a VERY pleasant trail ride, best I have had with her in a long long time - I am SO happy to have my horse back!<br />
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So the lesson here is that if a horse suddenly changes - there is a reason for it and we need to track it down and "make it better!".<br />
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I don't have any current pictures of *Tess as we have been riding mostly solo - but here are a couple from last year - she is like a fairy tale horse LOL. Well, the first photo is fairly recent :)<br />
Shelly<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JapY8ZsqOEI/TwSEdrisRaI/AAAAAAAAAtE/Nmjon7IcBgc/s1600/tessabijouandme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JapY8ZsqOEI/TwSEdrisRaI/AAAAAAAAAtE/Nmjon7IcBgc/s320/tessabijouandme.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-80924247253274484972012-01-03T08:35:00.000-08:002012-01-03T08:35:38.667-08:00Its a whole new year!Yes, 2012 is upon us and if the beginning of this year (weather-wise) is anything like the end of 2011, we are in for a lot of riding! We have had such a great Fall/early Winter riding season already that I have made a lot of progress with several of the horses that I am currently riding.....<br />
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*Spiffy (in my last blog) has gone on to her new home with a wonderful family, they are new to horses but really doing a lot to learn and *Spiff is helping them all she can :) - in their own words "we are having both a lot of fun and some challenges with *Spiffy), well, isn't that the way it always is with horses?!<br />
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*Serenade continues to be a wonder to ride and she is getting fitter and happier to go out each day I ride her - and that is 3 - 4 times a week. She seems to be completely sound now as well, which we are all thrilled about!<br />
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Shelly<br />
<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/">Curly Standard Place Website</a>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-67122726479632343342011-11-14T22:42:00.000-08:002011-11-14T22:42:54.309-08:00Three *Sandman girlsWell, I looked at my blog to see when the last post was and I was kind of surprised to see it was August! I guess I have had a pretty busy Fall and while this is a good thing for the progress of my horses in training obviously other areas got neglected.... :)<br />
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I was really lucky this year to be riding and training THREE young mares from *Sandman, all at the same time.<br />
*Spiffy Curl is a 2008 Curly pony mare that I trained to ride and then she went on to her new home with a family that has allergies - they came to meet her, tested her and decided that she would be a welcome addition to their family. I got the fun job of training her for them and she was really wonderful - accepting of all that we did and I really got to enjoy her for the time she was under saddle with me. Here we are out on the trail - not too long before she went to her new home:<br />
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The second one is *Sandman's Serenade - she is a 2007 Curly/Arabian mare that had a really bad injury to her shoulder muscle as a weanling and it has taken her literally years to heal. She is nearly sound now and as part of her rehab I have been riding her 4 - 5 times per week. An unexpected, wonderful side benefit of this riding is that "my" chronic neck injury seems to be benefiting from *Serenade's smooth stride and her calm and easy going nature. We are getting sound together!<br />
Here I am with her on the trail the other day:<br />
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The third mare is our lovely copper dun 2005 mare *Shesa Magic Charm. After about 18 months off to have her filly Ballet Dancer, it is like *Charm had no time off from riding at all - after a short lunging session I hopped right on and she was just super!<br />
*Charm is offered for sale - she can be rebred to our new young Curly stallion *BCF Icon for a really wonderful sporty foal! Here is *Charm with Anastasia the other day:<br />
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Well that is it for now! I hope I can post more updates more often now that Winter is just around the corner.... but I have sure been enjoying all my time in the saddle this Fall!<br />
Shelly<br />
<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/">http://www.curlystandardplace.com</a>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-89394660666942364462011-08-07T08:56:00.000-07:002011-08-07T08:56:02.822-07:00Endurance Rides Again!July 31st was the date for our second endurance ride of this season. This ride was less than half an hour from our house so we took the horses up the night before to have them vetted and then we took them home and turned them out. We loaded up early on Sunday a.m. and went to the ride. I think this was a very good decision on our part as our horses were calm and relaxed - obviously had had a good rest at home before the ride.<br />
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I was especially pleased with Tessa - she has had some issues this year for sure and yet at this ride she was wonderfully calm and had a great attitude. As soon as I got on her I could tell we were going to have a great ride - and we did! She paced herself very well and reached 60 bpm easily when we returned to camp for our mid ride vet check. She also pulsed down at the end of the ride pretty much right away - this is a big improvement from the last ride and I was very pleased!<br />
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Tessa and I placed 11th, WSL placed 12th and Anastasia and Bijou placed 13th - this was out of 48 horse/rider teams so that was a great placing IMO!<br />
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Here are a few pictures that someone took of us at the ride - there are more somewhere, I will find them eventually! This first one is WSL, me and Anastasia heading out on our first loop. <br />
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<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/">www.curlystandardplace.com</a>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-29305375160564999322011-06-30T10:06:00.000-07:002011-06-30T10:06:49.740-07:00Newest additionHere at the Curly Standard Place we are continually striving to improve on breeding outcomes and in order to do this we are always on the look out for outstanding horses to add to our riding and breeding programs.<br />
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We were lucky to be offered the truly lovely young purebred Arabian mare Soledad. She is a 2009 registered Arabian and we are really looking forward to seeing how she grows up! She is to be used for riding, of course, but she will also likely be contributing to our breeding program eventually as well.<br />
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Please welcome Soledad!<br />
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She is a first foal for our homebred mare *Shesa Magic Charm (aka *Charm)<br />
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She is a first foal for our homebred pony stallion *Bobble Head<br />
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She is the first foal to be one of three generations here on our farm - very cool! So, without further adieu, here is the beautiful red dun filly foal from *Charm and *Bobble!<br />
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Here is Abby: <br />
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<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/">Curly Standard Place</a>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-10440378205799496922011-04-26T21:08:00.000-07:002011-04-26T21:08:41.701-07:00Easter Delivery!Easter Sunday - at the lovely hour of 8:30 in the morning, our beautiful snowcap Appaloosa mare Poplar's Sea Pearl gave birth to an Easter baby :) yet, another filly - this has been a year of fillies for us so far! So far this filly has minimal appaloosa colour in her coat - but she has all the characteristics markings of an appy, which mostly likely means she will get more colour as she matures. Here is a picture of her dam:<br />
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<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/">http://www.curlystandardplace.com</a>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-83753993526089476632011-04-11T22:17:00.000-07:002011-04-11T22:17:27.828-07:00Curly Standard Place happenings*Icon and Divinity are settling in - Anastasia lunged D yesterday and they did great :) I gave *Icon a bath yesterday and he was such a good boy! He will have to be good for baths, with all that white on him! Here are a couple of pictures of him stretching his legs:<br />
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We went for a trail ride this weekend and got this photo of WSL and I - it was a great ride!<br />
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Shelly<br />
<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/">http://www.curlystandardplace.com</a>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-81478665124790814222011-04-03T11:10:00.000-07:002011-04-03T11:10:40.589-07:00We have been afforded the privilege of adding to our herd an incredible quality black pinto Curly stallion *BCF Icon.<br />
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We are incredibly thrilled to have this horse here now and we will promote, show, breed him to the best of our ability. He will be and exceptional cross with our *Sandman daughters and he will also be available to outside mares for breeding.<br />
Shelly in Summerland, BC Canada<br />
<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/">Curly Standard Place</a>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-11392545320362507592011-03-28T21:48:00.000-07:002011-03-28T21:48:31.617-07:00DKH Lacey has a girl!In the early hours of today (March 28th, 2011) DKH Lacey, our s/c Curly mare gave birth to a HUGE Curly filly! Lacey was a very good girl and event though she is still hesitant around people she was very tolerant of us being in attendance of her giving birth. The filly is huge, healthy happy and vigorous! I am going to regretfully offer her for sale - these big Curlies are hard to come by though - so someone will get a really special horse!<br />
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Anyhow, our foaling season is going well - two safely on the ground, two to go! We couldn't be happier!<br />
Shelly<br />
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She is perky, athletic, healthy and very very friendly - typical Arabian! These are just some of the reasons that I love to cross our Curlies with Arabians. This filly will be an eventual replacement for our mare Mirage, but we have plans to rebreed Mirage to <a href="http://curlystandardplace.com/index.php?display=122">*Icon</a> for a 2012 foal. Wow, that will be another exceptional cross!<br />
Here is one more of the little sweetie.<br />
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<span class="text"><b><i><span style="color: #2c1959; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">2004 Curly Sporthorse Mare - Infinite Potential </span></span></i></b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4tvjl7zd1U&feature=channel_page"><b><i><span style="color: #ff3366; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;"><br />
</span></span></i></b></a><b><i><span style="color: #2c1959; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"> If you want to take a curly Grand Prix competitively - This is the horse for you.<br />
The experts say this one has what it takes to go ALL THE WAY !! </span></span></i></b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="text"><span style="color: #2c1959; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black;">We are incredibly excited to have this mare at our farm. Anastasia in particular as she intends to ride and show Divinity!</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="text"><span style="color: #2c1959; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black;">Stay tuned on how she does for us :)</span></span></span></span></div><span class="text"><b><span style="color: #2c1959; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black;">Shelly</span></span></span></b></span><br />
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She is an absolutely gorgeous, loud, snowcap, registered Appaloosa mare. Snowcaps are known to be 100% colour producers! Pearl came to me from the excellent breeding program of Joan Collins in Oregon. Joan has been a huge help to me for all the time I have been breeding Curlies - including helping me to find my *Sandman originally! At one time she even owned *Sandman's sire, *Juper's Magic Carpet. As a segway - here is a photo of *Juper's Magic Carpet, aka *Cooper:<br />
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Pearl is so lovely - but she is more than that, she has the most calm, wonderful, gentle temperament and I just know she will pass this on to her foals. She is bred to *Sandman for a guaranteed colorful, Curly foal, she is due in March/April, so pretty soon! This first foal goes back to Joan - she no longer has any Curlies, so I guess she wanted to have one and why not have the whole package?! With Pearl and *Sandman, this foal is sure to be outstanding.<br />
Pearl is also a very well bred Appaloosa - here is a link to her <a href="http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/poplars+sea+pearl">pedigree</a>.<br />
Here are a few more photos of her. She has not been offered for sale, but she will be bred back to *Sandman for a 2012 foal and I would consider selling or leasing her to a really great home.<br />
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Shelly in Summerland, BC Canada<br />
<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/">http://www.curlystandardplace.com</a>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-29922967808799790042011-02-11T22:44:00.000-08:002011-02-11T22:44:08.733-08:00All the horses of the Curly Standard PlaceI have quite a few horses - some of them I rarely talk about as they are keepers an I have no plans to sell them. I thought it would be a good idea to talk about each of them - I will try to o one a week :)<br />
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So last week I said a few words about Mirage - she is my oh-so-fun Arabian mare. This week I will talk about her daughter <a href="http://curlystandardplace.com/index.php?display=84">*Sandman's Serenade</a> *Serenade is sired by our stallion *Sandman's Magic and she was born in 2007, which means she is rising 4 this year and we are starting her under saddle. She has the most delightful, sweet temperament of any horse that you might hope to meet- absolutely wonderful. She has a good work ethic and we are really looking forward to riding her this year. Myself, I am really hoping that she is as competitive as her dam - if she is then she will be just amazing and perhaps a horse that we can do 50 or even 100 mile endurance rides on eventually! *Serenade is no very big, but she is already a bit bigger than her dam - I measured her the other day, she was 14.3hh, this surprised me as I didn't think she was quite that tall, but there you go!<br />
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Here are a few photos of her working on the lunge line and one of her with my allergic daughter Anastasia.<br />
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Shelly<br />
<a href="http://www.curlystandardplace.com/">http://www.curlystandardplace.com</a>Shellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243419169844972876noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210790.post-21014117935936768272011-02-07T21:45:00.000-08:002011-02-07T21:45:42.437-08:00RJ Light Serenade (aka Mirage)This post is not about Curlies - it is about my purebred Arabian mare RJ Light Serenade, aka Mirage. Mirage is on of my all time favorite riding horses, she is full of GO and yet fun and easy to ride for an experienced rider.<br />
Here is a picture of us on one of our endurance rides together, she is preggers in this photo! <br />
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So Mirage is due to have her second foal for us next month - she is quite gigantic! I spent quite a bit of time today grooming her- she is shedding like crazy and she loved the attention!<br />
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Here re a couple of pictures of purebred Arabian stallion that she is bred to:<br />
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The first foal that we had from Mirage was almost 4 years ago now - she was a *Sandman baby - ooops! This IS about Curlies too! Anyhow, here is Mirages 2007 filly *Sandman' Serenade - a real chip off of both mom and dad.<br />
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Until next time! <br />
Shelly<br />
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