Any Lipizzaner Owners here?

texenstar said:
I think I can cope with a dirty horse :D in the photo you will notice how brown his tail is! poor horsey is gonna have to wait until it's warmer before he gets a bath :D But unfortunatley in my case I'm not fantastic at cleaning so even at shows I'm afraid he is going to look a state, my only hope is to dazzle them with talent! :D
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Im not good a cleaning either, i hadn't noticed his tail until you said. Im sure people will be too bowled over by his talent, charm and good looks to worry about how clean he is. :D
 
I had seventeen wonderful years with a pretend Lippizaner! She didn't have any papers and of unknown origin despite being bought from an extremely prestigeous yard containing two standing stallions - stood together all three looked like peas in a pod apart from my mare being more feathery in winter.

Sharrock Stud's Neopolitano Fantasia was my mare's never to be husband ( I'm pretty sure she had bred at least one foal and would have made a lovely mother but since being principle assistant foaling Mrs FirstClass with second daughter - I couldn't face up to the responisbility of putting any woman through that!) - I still have his standing publicity photo together with hers - it was another sad day when I learned that he to had gone to the Happy Paddock.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1stclassalan/8424564392/ Some piccies here.
 
LOL re cleaning grey horses - yes I forgot to mention that Luke is the filthiest horse I have ever known - my father admits to riding past people so they only see Luke's cleaner side! yes he was iron grey at 5, dappled at 6, and plain grey with flea bites by 8. He has just a few dark hairs still in his mane and tail at 17. Despite growing until he was 7 he didn't go through saddles in the time I had him. he has had it reflocked and checked every year but has never needed a change since he had it fitted at 6 - it was second hand then and is now lovely and old - like an old friend. Luke's father was I think the previous posters mare's fantasy husband. the people I bought him from lost his papers but I visited the stud where he was said to have been bred and looking at pics they thought it was him - also his father has a face just like his and his full brother is the complete spitting image of him in every way. But given as I never had him DNA checked he could be a fake - but in the end he is such a nice horse I don't care.
 
Blythe Spirit said:
LOL re cleaning grey horses - yes I forgot to mention that Luke is the filthiest horse I have ever known - my father admits to riding past people so they only see Luke's cleaner side! yes he was iron grey at 5, dappled at 6, and plain grey with flea bites by 8. He has just a few dark hairs still in his mane and tail at 17. Despite growing until he was 7 he didn't go through saddles in the time I had him. he has had it reflocked and checked every year but has never needed a change since he had it fitted at 6 - it was second hand then and is now lovely and old - like an old friend. Luke's father was I think the previous posters mare's fantasy husband. the people I bought him from lost his papers but I visited the stud where he was said to have been bred and looking at pics they thought it was him - also his father has a face just like his and his full brother is the complete spitting image of him in every way. But given as I never had him DNA checked he could be a fake - but in the end he is such a nice horse I don't care.
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She does seem to be greying out quite quickly - her face from a distance is almost white already, yet her brother is still much darker. Nice to hear your still using the same saddle for him, i had visions of going through lots of saddles between 4 and 7 until she had finished growing.

LOL at your dad riding past on the clean side, thats the sort of thing i would do.
 
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