Breeding season!

Our next event is to go to the Okanagan Breeder's Group stallion showcasehttp://www.okbreedersgroup.com/Stallionshowcase.htm
to be held April 10th and 11th in Armstrong BC - hope to see you all there!  It will be our first time to attend this event, but everyone tells me it is worthwhile!

For those of you overseas - frozen semen from *Sandman's Magic is now available in Europe and Australia with three confirmed pregnancies in Australia!

Shelly
www.curlystandardplace.com

*Sandman and *Charm

Well, I got to ride two Curlies today - first up was *Charm - she was just a star!  I rode her in the ring and then she was so good that I thought I would take her up our long driveway and onto the road for a few minutes.  She was just about perfect - so I am thinking that we are getting well ready to go up the hills on our first trail ride - I'm hoping for this Thursday so that my daughter can come with me for company.

Next, I rode *Sandman for the first time this year - he has been ridden for the past three weeks or so by Luis, but I am taking him to our first stallion show this weekend and I need to ride him there so I thought I better get a couple of rides on him first.  He was pretty great - and I remembered why I like riding him so much - he is so well trained and such a powerhouse - he is marvelous to ride!  So I will ride him once more this week and then take him to the annual stallion show at Thunderbird in Langley, BC - it is always a great place to display the horses.

Shelly
www.curlystandardplace.com

*Charm's first show! She wins a first place ribbon!

 

Well, we have had an adventure!  I have been riding and preparing my Curly mare *Shesa Magic Charm for her first dressage show which was held yesterday on March 13th.  *Charm has been very going well in my arena, but I haven't had an opportunity to ride her in other areas very much and also, this "fuzzy horse dressage show" was to be held in an indoor arena about 2 hours from here.  Now my neighbour has a really nice coverall building and so on Friday March 12th when it was just pouring rain I thought this would be a good time to take her over there and ride her.  *Charm had been over to the indoor arena just once before late last summer - she had been pretty good in there, but it did seem like a good idea to go one more time before the show! 

 

So she was okay with being in the indoor arena, but she didn't like that there were no other horses in there, so she was somewhat nervous until my neighbour brought her horse in for some work and then *Charm settled down quite a bit.  I was happy to be riding inside that day - we don't get a lot of rain here, but when we do it just pours!

 

We had to leave quite early to get the the show grounds, and we took *Sandman and also my trainer's horse came along for the experience.  All the horses loaded and hauled just fine - we arrived in plenty of time for me to lead Charm around inside the arena before the show started.  She handled it all very well - and then I got her ready to ride and lunged and then warmed her up a bit - she was very very good and I was pretty impressed with her!

 

While waiting our turn to go into the arena a young girl asked me if *Charm was from *Sandman's Magic!  I thought that was very cool!  I know that *Charm does look like him, but we hadn't even brought him out of the trailer yet and so *Charm was the only Curly horse she had seen there!  She also went on to say that she had seen *Sandman two years ago at the fuzzy horse show when my daughter had ridden him.  There were lots of great comments about my horses - could hear people talking about the Curlies and it felt really great to be out there doing in again - as we took last year off from showing dressage.

 

So I rode *Charm in two walk/trot tests in the indoor arena, tests A and B - she was nervous in the arena by herself, but again I was very impressed and pleased with her effort - and her effort was enough to get her a first place ribbon and a second! 

 

It was a great day overall - *Sandman showed well also - it was only his second time ridden in First Level and he got a second and a fourth - so I was happy with all the results!

 

It was difficult to get photos in the indoor arena, but I did get a few off the video we took, all attach them here - hopefully better ones will be coming from the next show which will be outside.

Shelly
Standing Curly Sporthorse Stallion *Sandman's Magic
http://www.curlystandardplace.com

 

*Shesa Magic Charm

So we are back at it in full force - *Shesa Magic Charm is going extremely well under saddle this year - it will be her year to shine!  I have ridden her 5 times so far this year and she is just loving it.  I think I am enjoying her quite a bit as well - as you can see by my face.

Now this girl is offered for sale. She has a LOT of training into her, she does walk, trot, canter very well and she has been started over fences as well - she really loves that as she gets to go faster!  Here are a few photos of her from the other day.

 

Shelly

www.curlystandardplace.com

Miss Molly on the move

I had an inquiry for some video of my little red head - Miss Molly.  Molly is a 2008 Curly bred s/c filly, at this time she is rising two - so incredibly cute, but very confident and sure of herself too!  So here is a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1ygna-gnfc it is worth watching :)  Here is a still photo of her from the other day - she will make a really nice driving pony and eventually a children's pony - or would be very useful for a serious Curly pony breeding program - yep - she is for sale!

 

 

An early and busy spring so far!

I have a new trainer working with *Sandman this year - his name is Luis Rodriguez, he is a great rider and he is quite happy to be riding my boy for me!  So far he has ridden *Sandman for just under two weeks and already they are doing so well together!

So Luis will also be showing SM for me - watch here for updates on how it is going!