We currently have seven horses, including three arabians, two quarter horses, one paint, and one appaloosa. Grace has done all the training on her paint, our quarter horse gelding, and the groundwork on her arabian filly.
This was 'Harley', aka Slew's Nugget. We no longer have this thoroughbred, but he was a grandson of Seattle Slew and was 17.2 hands tall. Very gentle on the ground, but a little scary to ride. The kids now say they wish we hadn't have sold him, but they aren't little kids anymore!
Above is our Arabian stallion. His left shoulder was injured when he was 2 months old, however, he was born in 2005 and it has been slowly improving. He canters around and runs the show. His girlfriend, behind him and above right, is a blind Appaloosa mare. He functions as her guide dog. She is due to foal in spring of 2010. Because the blindness is the result of a doubling up of an Appaloosa gene, there is 0% chance of the baby inheriting it, as long as you cross the Appaloosa with any other breed (besides Pony of the America's or other breeds that were partly formed by the Appaloosa.) I will add his bloodlines to the website after I register him. His father is Bremervale Enforcer and his mother is OFW Arabaska. His name is going to be Halim Al Sahara or Hadi Al Sahara, whichever the registry accepts. He is not little, about 15 hands, but still growing. If you know Arabs, you know those are top current show lines.
Below is my daughter jumping Sassafras, sadly deceased from colic in 2008. The picture below that is Grace training Taz, her current horse, a Medicine Hat Paint named Redee to Impressu. He is just over 16 hands and may still grow a bit. He is a sweetheart of a horse, kind with the other horses and he even lets the donkeys steal a little food from him sometimes. My daughter does not like the picture because the horse's head isn't tucked down the way she likes, but he was born in 2005, so he isn't fully trained yet. She is working on his headset. My son was also into jumping, but like many boys, once he got his driver's license his interests changed! Below the paint is Grace showing her first horse, a smart Arab named Amuretto in 4H. He was her first love, and what she didn't know about riding, Amuretto did (like when to change leads). Sadly, he fell and broke his hip at age 22 years and had to be put down.
