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| Topic Started: Aug 17 2007, 10:35 AM (2,836 Views) | |
| europa | Aug 17 2007, 10:35 AM Post #1 |
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Weanling
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I will start a nice new thread  Love your smileys!!! Anyways, I will introduce myself and would like you guys to tell me a bit about yourselves. I am in Tennessee (Nascar capital of the world)  Anways, I have been breeding for about 7 years now and I have 6 1/2 horses. I started with Hanoverians but mainly breed Oldenburgs now. I was a Big Eq rider in my day and moved to Europe and rode jumpers (is there anything else?) Now I ride HJ and Dressage...........hoping to eventually get back into jumpers. I am really excited to have an Escudo II baby on the way. I have a 2 year old out of Anhaltiner E and a yearling out of Pablo. SO TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELVES AND YOUR ASPIRATIONS DAMMIT 
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| Quinn | Aug 17 2007, 10:47 AM Post #2 |
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We're on a bridge, Chaaaaaaaaarlie!
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I think I have run out of aspirations. I have 11 horses many of whom are retired. I am a weenie adult amateur with a lovely 8 year old Rio Grande mare, a 3 year old "A Fine Romance" filly, a 2 year old "A Fine Romance" filly and a yearling "Rio Grande" filly. Hey, what's up with all the fillies!!!!  Could be why I AM a weenie adult ammy. Not a ballsy rider by any stretch of the imagination. At one time did the 3'6" hunters and tried my hand at 3' Jumper Eq but am now quite happy doing the 2'9" stuff on a "confident" day.  http://community.webshots.com/user/ballyduff |
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| quicksilverponies | Aug 17 2007, 10:49 AM Post #3 |
Schooling
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Well, OK I will jump in too. I used to live in TN (Kingsport) and own a winter farm in Jonesborough. Where in TN are you located? We live in the snowy east side of Cleveland, OH at the moment. I breed Section B Welsh ponies and an occasional half-Welsh for the hunter ring. I currently have 3 stallions, 10 broodmares and various other youngsters. I'm always open to visitors at the farm and the website (which needs to be updated). |
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| mpetrecz | Aug 17 2007, 10:51 AM Post #4 |
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Thomas H. Cruise!
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Hi!!! I love Tenn, especially Nashville! I've closed a few bars there!!!! And house toured the first TB race stable in the USA!! Talk about impressive!!! I love Pablo!!! Good luck with him and brag away!!! I'm a new transplant to central Pa and am from the Phila area. I've been riding hunters since I was 40.....started late, but love it. I rode western, studied dressage for a few yrs, fox hunted....then hunters. I love starting the youngsters and have had a few nice ones. As I got older, wanted to try this breeding thing and am totally hooked. I have 2 babies......one is a pony welsh/tb filly 4/8/07....and is my rascal, the other is a TB filly 5/9/07 and is by Canadian Kid out of a Viscount mare who's by Grand Prospect (ray Francis's stallion). The TB is a bucky and huge and soo sweet and easy. I plan on keeping them and getting them under saddle before going up for sale. I'd like to try the HB!!! I want to breed evey other yr, that way I won't get over my head...I have some health issues slowing me down right now. If I find I have more time and energy,I will take on project horses. My love is getting solid respectable hunters into the show ring and into great show homes. I have a few kids (people one all grown up) and am the proud grand mother of 3 lesson taking, horse lovin, little girls. I feel like I'm living the dream. Mary |
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| europa | Aug 17 2007, 11:21 AM Post #5 |
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I am in Blountville which is just outside of the thriving Metropolis of Bristol....home of the Bristol Motor Speedway and country music. YEEHAW Anyways, the breeding bug in my case has hit hard. I never thought I would enjoy it like I do riding but I have to admit I am now a breeding junkie......although I don't think I ever want to try the cruise/vanner cross. |
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| cindeye | Aug 17 2007, 11:26 AM Post #6 |
Off visiting Candy Cave, be right back.
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I've pinned this topic so y'all can introduce yourselves. A LOT of new members in the past several days! I'm pretty sure y'all know each other anyway. Have fun. |
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| La Gringa | Aug 17 2007, 11:32 AM Post #7 |
Starving Artist
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Hi, I'm La Gringa (Kindra).. I came over here also after some run in's on TOB, and I have been glad I did! This is the best board ever!! I have a filly Zuni this year by Albarez. My first foal, she's a total sweetheart. Here she is : at 4 months  Welcome everybody!! |
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| europa | Aug 17 2007, 11:45 AM Post #8 |
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Weanling
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LOVELY I almost went with Alcatraz but decided against the frozen on an older mare!! I love Albarez also!! WHOOO....you go. Here is one of mine...Phoebe Pablo/Nebelwerfer http://www.photoreflect.com/scripts/prsm.d...=05XF004S010028 |
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| Hillside H Ranch | Aug 17 2007, 11:57 AM Post #9 |
I Visited Candy Mountain and All I Got Was This Lousy Incision
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I'm a new member; just came here from when TOB imploded! Seems pretty cool and laid back here and I can' believe I had lived without Charlie the Unicorn this long! Anyway, I'm a small time breeder, starting to turn my focus to producing just jumpers. Also hoping I will be able to regain my courage to jump anything over 3' again  . Amazing what having a child and being out of the saddle for a little while can do to your riding ability!
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| RBEfarm | Aug 17 2007, 12:02 PM Post #10 |
Schooling
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My turn I guess. I am in SE Virginia just a stone's throw from NC and a mile from the Great Dismal Swamp. As unlikely as that sounds, we have a nice little farm of 26 acres where we raise Colonial Spanish Horses. We have about 30 now and are the largest breeder in the East. We spend as much time as we can promoting and educating folks about our breed and have been as far as Wyoming and back this summer hauling horses. We also run a boarding/breeding operation. I board and foal out mares and then their foals for young as well as young horses. We foaled out 14 mares this spring and I have at least 10 for next season...and it's early yet to be counting....  When I'm not doing that, I'm trimming feet. I do a barefoot style trim and keep seeming to acquire more and more clients and recently spent a day with Paige Poss in Northern Virginia (www.ironfreehoof.com) and really had a great time and learned a lot from her. I trim about 60 horses now to include my own. When I'm not doing the other two/three activities, I work a couple days a week in my old full time office job as a financial analyst for a coffee manufacturer. To say the least...life is rarely boring...dodging broodmares and trying to find time to bring along a couple of young horses and get them sold. I think I need a clone honestly.  LaGringa...what a lovely foal! |
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| Fred | Aug 17 2007, 12:32 PM Post #11 |
Thomas H. Cruise!
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I'm Fred, and like Quinn, I live in southwestern Ontario. I'm a long time COTH poster and one of the originals on this BB too. I used to event and then switched to hunters - but when my career and marriage took up too much of my time, I switched to breeding racehorses. uh huh, that makes sense, doesn't it? [/SIZE] My riding horses continued to be Thoroughbreds, except these were ones I had bred myself and raced. At any rate, I quickly became obsessed with horse breeding and gradually over time have switched from racehorses to sport horses. (although in my opinion, race horses ARE sport horses!!). Thoroughbreds were my first love and they have continued to be my focus, believing as I do in their importance as sporthorses and in sporthorse breeding. I have (I think) 13 horses right now, including my homebred (and product of my race horse breeding program) stallion A Fine Romance. That's him in my avatar.  In addition to Fred I have one suckling, one gorgeous 2 yr old colt, one beautiful filly in training, and 7  lovely broodmares. Two of them are bred to AFR and in foal for 2008.I am determined to get down to 5 horses before winter. This winter.  I am married to a most wonderful man and we have a farm. Welcome to the new BB. As others have already said, the rules here are simple, play nice, and leave your baggage at home. It's a lot more fun that way. 
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| avery | Aug 17 2007, 12:58 PM Post #12 |
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We're on a bridge, Chaaaaaaaaarlie!
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Hi! I'm Avery. I'm in school in NYC. I have a 2 year old Trakehner orphan who lives a train ride away in NJ. I'm a sucker for an elegant dark sporthorse. Here he is (Happy Hour x Heavenly Rose by Donauschimmer out of Helena *E*). I posted a picture of his dam and I in the Hayloft. My father's family has been ranching in Texas for over a century. I have a herd of QHs down there too, but I don't breed them. I can find plenty of ridable ranch horses for under 1k, so what would be the point? I started off riding Western (in Texas), then I rode hunter ponies. I dabbled in Saddlebreds, eventing and dressage. I did hunter equitation in college. I'm not a competitor or a professional. I'm really interested in having a close partnership with one horse, over all its years, and following the horse's ambitions and talents wherever they may lead me. For example, I got into breeding when my mare (who was heading toward becoming a hunter) fractured her navicular. Breeding has become a passion of mine because not only to you get to follow the horse through every stage of it's life, you get to follow that development over generations. Raising an orphan has been an intense experience, I've learned a lot. I can't wait to see what my guy shows me he wants to be when he grows up. I'm going to start him by the German method. My goal is to do an event at training level by the time he's six. Hopefully that will tell me whether he wants to do it all, dressage, endurance, jumping, or hunters. |
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| dorthyinoz | Aug 17 2007, 02:13 PM Post #13 |
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Hello All. I'm 21 and from Southern Ontario, where I also attend University. I don't know if I can be called a "Breeder" as I've only bred and raised one foal (who is now 2). I do have one foal coming next year (and hopefully another). I'm five foot 9 and raise ponies....I tend to get laughed at where I board due to this fact. I got into breeding by default as my show pony decided showing was no longer on her "to-do" list. All things happen for a reason, don't they? I have a mare, 2 year old and a yearling up here in Canada right now. I have a weanling and her mother down in Virginia. With all these ponies, I need to move to a farm soon. I learned alot on COTH and was glad when Avery PM'd me the link to this place. Hopefully it will be a great learning place, and I look forward to "meeting" old and new friends here. |
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| railmom | Aug 17 2007, 03:33 PM Post #14 |
We're on a bridge, Chaaaaaaaaarlie!
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Hi, I am new here! I am from Michigan and a fairly new and very small time breeder. I rode hunters and trained ponies as a kid, got into dressage when my daughter began to ride. She quickly surpassed my ability so I spent a few years as a "railmom" I am an excellent groom (lots of practice) and a equine massage therapist. When my daughter left for school I traded the last FEI dressage horse for an imported Hanoverian mare in foal  Bel Etrice (Bella) is the best mom and the perfect first broodmare. I took Kathy and Jos' class and glad I did!!! So I now have in the backyard momma Bella, her first foal born here (her 3rd) 2 year old Donnabella by Donnerschlag. They are going to have to pry Donnabella's leadrope from my cold dead hands, not for sale. I also currently have Bella's yearling colt Patronus by Pablo (very handsome) and this years filly Ragon by Rascalino (the princess) at home. Bella is in foal to Quaterback for '08, hoping for a chestnut with bling!
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| CrossWinds81 | Aug 17 2007, 03:35 PM Post #15 |
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Hi! I decided to come on over since the COtH board is closed :(...but it 's great to see the familiar names. I live in Lexington, KY and am originally from S. CA. Most of my experience is with hunters/jumpers, never had the chance to campaign on the circuit much due to funds, but was the barn slave for many years for various trainers (still am!). I've been in KY for 8 years now, and if you're involved w/ horses at all, you somehow get involved with the TB's in one way or another, and I ended up breaking yearlings, exercise riding, and working as a vet tech with various other titles inbetween. Now, I'm back in college...eeps!...while finally pursuing one of my biggest dreams...breeding top sporthorses. My Galoubet mare o/o a full sister to the former grand prix star Chase the Clouds will be bred next year and hoping to lease a top mare for next year as well. Almost forgot, I have a small pony project coming along and crossing fingers and toes to sell her very soon. Think that just about covers it all in a nutshell!
 I'm doing crazy long hours of research on bloodlines and would LOVE any and all insight!
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