Gratuitous pictures of my horse

[skygazer]

Post pics of your pets. :)

[glinda]

1. Very lovely!

[one_voice]

2. Beautiful...

I love horses. My grandparents had horses when I was little, they're magnificent animals.

I always say, if I ever have the money, I'd love to own horses. Preferably rescues.

[skygazer]

5. She could be considered a rescue

She's an off-the-track Thoroughbred. Had one of the girls at the track not taken her to find her a good home (me), she may well have ended up on a kill truck.

Thanks - she is beautiful and she's the light of my life.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Those pictures weren't taken today.....grumble grumble.

Pretty horse.

[skygazer]

4. The top 3 were taken yesterday

And it looked exactly like that at the barn in Saratoga today when I went. It was pouring buckets at my house in Los Gatos though.

Damn micro-climates!

[Gormy Cuss]

6. The clouds in the first shots looked like yesterday here too..

but today we had exactly ten minutes of sunshine.

[Flaxbee]

7. what a beautiful girl!

I learned to ride in California; my trainer would as frequently as possible rescue thoroughbreds from local tracks and train them to the trail. Haven't ridden in over 20 years; I really miss it.

Have you seen Cowgirl magazine? Good friends of one of my sister's founded it; they're only on their fourth issue. Always like to see horse-centric magazines :)

http://cowgirlmagazine.com/

[skygazer]

9. That's one I haven't seen

I mostly ride English though I originally learned Western (about 300 years ago). I have subscriptions to Equus, Horse Illustrated and Horse and Rider and I regularly read Dressage Today and Trail Rider. Love horse magazines but I can't throw any away because they have so much good info in them.

Good on your former trainer for rescuing TB's. They are a lot of work to rehab but so worth it!

[Flaxbee]

10. I rode Enlglish as well...

DAMN I miss it! I remember one horse my trainer nicknamed Magnum; he was HUGE and just a beautiful creature who really did like to run. After he was a good boy in the ring (or even after he was ornery & bucked me off multiple times in a row), we'd take him to the dry river bed and let him run -- really was an incredible feeling riding him when he opened up and went at full speed. Hard to believe he never won a race; makes me wonder how it would have felt to be on Secretariat when he really opened up and ran like the wind.

Cowgirl strikes me as more of a lifestyle magazine, featuring western fashions as well. But interesting horse history, etc...

[guitar man]

8. Beautiful horse!

I really miss riding but I don't have a big enough place to keep a horse anymore.

This is my angry, man-eating pit bulldog Birdie with my daughter :D

[gratuitous]

11. I did NOT take any of those pictures

Though "some say" I am prominently featured in the third one.

[hippywife]

12. She's very beautiful.

And obviously well cared for. :hi:

[Demoiselle]

13. Thank you, thank you!

I'll be happy to look at gratuitous pictures of your beautiful horse anytime.
I particularly love the bucking picture. What lovely playful freedom.
I love horses.

[Haole Girl]

14. Great pics!

It looks like you are on top of the world in a couple of those shots. :-) :hi:

[david13]

15. Beautiful. Beautiful. I do like the horses. Almost as much as I like the cats. dc

[seabeyond]

16. pretty horse. i love your pictures

thank you for sharing. i love the area you live in. shhhhh, what part of ca. i am from there but have been away so long. we drove back this spring vacation and came thru shasta and down the coast to SF. i had never been so far north. loved the area. reminded me of ireland, lol.

on edit.... i saw your post above. googled it. i lived in carmel. thought i recognized the landscape.

well, lucky you