Curly Standard Place News

Well, I haven't been riding much - I spent at least a couple of months working very very hard to get my farm ready for winter and I am very happy with the results, but now it is time to get back to horses!  I have ridden my wonderful girl *Tessa several times, she took this last year off to have a lovely big black filly, http://curlystandardplace.com/index.php?display=117
but now I want to get *Tessa back fitted up to take in some endurance rides next year - she is a real competitor and I am looking forward to it!

I have also been making slow progress with *Joe, my Curly/Arabian gelding....he is his own funny self, but definitely coming along. It is snowy and icy around here lately so I am taking advantage of my neighbor's lovely coverall arena and well, *Joe was quite alarmed the first time in there :) but yesterday he was very attentive and good, so next time I will get on him and see how that goes.

Anastasia has started our *Sandman/Arabian filly *Sandman's Serenade: http://curlystandardplace.com/index.php?display=84 done all the ground work, but now Anastasia is at university full time so I have taken over *Serenade's training for a bit.  Wow *Serenade is so calm, solid and easy going!  She is a delight to work with!  We have backed her a few times but not really ridden her much yet, but she should come along well.  She will still be too young in the spring for much endurance riding, but we will definitely ride her out to bring her training along.

So that is mostly my updates - I have sold several young horses
*Sand Runner went to TX
Miss Molly went to a super local family
*Chrystal Bloom and *Simon Says went to KY
*Sum R Son went to Alberta
and *Bobble went to IN on a long term lease

So, this will make my training workload more manageable now and these horses have gone to some really fabulous homes - I am very excited about this - I hope I can blog about some of their accomplishments eventually, that would be great.
Shelly
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