Besides WB - what do you ride

[Shirrine]

13hh Welsh B right now, wish he was 14.2hh but I love him anyway.
This is not me riding him but she is same height as me, as you can see he takes it well.



Shirrine

[demi]

13hh Welsh B right now, wish he was 14.2hh ...

He LOOKS 14.2! What a handsome boy.

[demi]

...SHIRE Cross mare. VERY nice gaits, good size for me (16hh), very pretty when she's clean...

She IS very pretty! and you look good on her. I have a soft spot for mares. Thanks for the picture.

Fireantranch I SO get that. We've recently had lots of rain and nothing brings out the fireants more that lots of rain.

[Hot4Spots]

See my user name! Current beastie is a 16.2 chestnut with snowflake blanket and some roaning, blaze, two hind socks....Araloosa. His Arabian sire was a USDF All Breeds winner at 1st and 2nd levels and a champion show hack. I bought him because he's an Appy, but I have to admit the quality of his movement is probably attributable to the Arabian cross. He's also a little more "sensitive" than my past Appaloosas have been!

[ironbessflint]

I have a Haflinger collection

[Hot4Spots]

Adding a bit to my prior post to give a little more detail on my Appy. Now, his dam was in the 90th percentile of Foundation breeding, and true foundation horses are considered "warmbloods" in the technical sense, more closely related to Spanish horses than the modern, heavily QH Appaloosas. Then his sire was a purebred, Trahkener-approved Arabian. So technically, he IS a warmblood - but not a European WB. LOL And lemme tell you - in actual use, he is a HOT blood!!! My prior horse, also an Appy, had a lot of TB in him (actually descended from Seabiscuit's half-brother), and he was dead calm. Go figure!

[ElaPe]

I used to ride a 14.2h Connemara mare up to 1st Level

[Baroque]

PREs and partbred Spanish here. <3

[Silverbridge]

A Lipizzan

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[scruffy the cat]

Oh thank God you chimed in. I've been waiting. Welcome.

[demi]

Pretty, pretty mare, Silverbridge. Thanks for sharing her.

[Snork]

Apparently I gravitate towards the lighter, more agile mind and compact bodies. Too bad because I'm hardly a compact type of creature but alas ...

I ride a lusitano right now. We had a rough start owing to a less than suitable trainer but we're slowly getting accustomed to each other. By all objective measures he is a very nice horse and I appreciate the chance of riding him. I don't love him yet but I appreciate him. Before him i had a warmblood mare and before her, a saddlebred. I loved both of them but riding wise preferred to sit on my saddlebred.

However, the creature that puts a smile on my face just thinking of her is, completely unexpectedly, my daughters haflinger pony. She is magical and if she were younger she'd be MY pony, all 13 hands of her. I get on her sometimes when i just want to feel complete, unfettered happiness. To think that just a few years ago I wouldn't have given her a second glance because she's "just a Haflinger." If i were shopping now, I'd buy myself one of her kind and live happily ever after.

[Josette]

Silverbridge - glad you posted!! Beautiful pics and your mare as always is gorgeous!

[Tuddy]

I am loving all the pics on this thread!

I have my daughter's QH, and my three Cheval Canadiens.

[kande50]

Doris, middle aged mule, came to us via the New Holland auction and Save Your Ass Rescue.

How anyone could send such a sweet mule to the auction is beyond me, but their loss is our gain:

So my riding string now consists of one WB and 2 mules.

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[Hot4Spots]

Hope this works. Trying to insert picture.....not a really good one, but kinda cute from a dressage show costume class during the 2014 World Series. You'll note that even my horse is wearing eyeblack.

[demi]

Doris, middle aged mule, came to us via the New Holland auction and Save Your Ass Rescue.

How anyone could send such a sweet mule to the auction is beyond me, but their loss is our gain:

So my riding string now consists of one WB and 2 mules.

Nice ass you have there, Kande! Seriously, she is a lucky girl that you rescued her.

[Astral]

ASB/draft cross.

[fireantranch]

Love, love, love mules! Our Rhoda mule has been gone a number of years and still miss her! 13hh hands of chestnut mare pissyness - but only to me and not the husband. She adored him . But if I got on her she'd be likely to take off at a dead run and then do the pony trick of dropping the inside shoulder - so she could somersault me and then laugh (I'll swear she would laugh).

[jeniferkey]

Marien is a Welsh Cob/TB cross. I admit I prefer them shorter and stouter, but he's almost 13 and we've had a lot of adventures together. Right now he's on a break. Hopefully this spring he'll come back to work and he'll feel ok.

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and Topper, the new guy, is a Morgan/Haflinger. We'll see what he thinks of dressage. Right now we're taking lessons, but focusing on getting him out in the hunt field. That tends to help them understand that forward is ok and I'm already seeing a better walk in my lessons from his time out and about.

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[kande50]

Love, love, love mules! Our Rhoda mule has been gone a number of years and still miss her! 13hh hands of chestnut mare pissyness - but only to me and not the husband. She adored him . But if I got on her she'd be likely to take off at a dead run and then do the pony trick of dropping the inside shoulder - so she could somersault me and then laugh (I'll swear she would laugh).

Mules can be very odd. Doris is more like a horse (or maybe a donkey) in that she doesn't seem to have the extreme bullheaded, run through anything reactions that our Halflinger mules have. Which is very much appreciated, as I'm no longer bullheaded enough to want to deal with all that mule drama.

[Josette]

Jeniferkey - I've always enjoyed your pics of your hunt and X-country excursions. You always looked to have so much fun with your horses and ponies! This new morgan/halfie cross looks very cute. Good luck with him.

[Watson]

I ride a palomino Paint, Watson, that used to be a kid's camp horse. I have a brain injury, so he's perfect for me as he's as bomb proof as they come and so eager to please. We showed this year, winning year end awards for walk/trot at our local and provincial level. Hoping to show Training level next year, if all goes well.

When I saw his ad I said to my friend, "Can I really buy a horse that looks like "My Little Pony"?", but she convinced me that no good horse was the wrong colour and the first time I got on him I knew he was "the one".

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[PNG_Pony]

Oh these photos are gorgeous!

I ride a 5 year old 14.2 grade PNG stock pony that definitely has Appaloosa blood (you can't see it in the photo, but she's a varnish strawberry roan/marble). We just hit our one-year anniversary of being under saddle and working on confirming 1st!

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[ironbessflint]

However, the creature that puts a smile on my face just thinking of her is, completely unexpectedly, my daughters haflinger pony. She is magical and if she were younger she'd be MY pony, all 13 hands of her. I get on her sometimes when i just want to feel complete, unfettered happiness. To think that just a few years ago I wouldn't have given her a second glance because she's "just a Haflinger." If i were shopping now, I'd buy myself one of her kind and live happily ever after.

As much as this makes me smile just because you're talking about a Haflinger (and I agree completely!), this whole paragraph is really what IT is also about, isn't it? We should all feel so happy with our horses.

[TeresaA]

I have a TB/QH cross who was lovely to ride and had some talent for lateral work until he developed some neurological problems.

My other horse is an Andalusian and I love this breed to bits.

[PaulaEdwina]

Percheron/Standardbred gelding.