Before and afters - Condition

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Pigeon

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Lets see your before and after shots of your horses :D

It's so rewarding to look back at photos of when I first got him, I hadn't really noticed how much he'd improved until I did :o

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On arrival last Aug. Good weight for the summer but god awful sweet itch

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During treatment with steroids in Sept, he looked so poor bless him

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After treatment in Oct

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Thanks :)

Vanner, I do have a pessoa (or whatever the cheap version is), and in theory I meant to lunge in it twice a week, but I completely forget a lot of the time :o So yes, occasionally lunged in a pessoa! Not more than once a week, probably less :o But mostly schooling on hacks, lots of hill work. He gets a bit bored in the arena so I get the best out of him on the roads :)
 
There's 18 months between the first two pics, a little longer between the second two, he's getting his winter coat there :)

Awwh, you definitely should! :D
 
Pigeon said:
Lets see your before and after shots of your horses :D

It's so rewarding to look back at photos of when I first got him, I hadn't really noticed how much he'd improved until I did :o

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I saw this on another thread and really looks like a completely different horse. All credit to you, he looks superb :D
I will have to resurrect this thread in a few months as mine is only just being backed but Im all for hacking & hillwork to build muscle and condition.
 
 
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Oh Kellybee he's gorgeous, I'm partial to a spotty and he looks just like my old boy!!

05troyd, what a massive difference in four months! What's his breeding?
 
Top photo is March 2012 when I first met him and began sharing him. Second photo is september 2012 in his new home with me :) haven't got a good, recent photo but he looks even better now.. More muscle and less ribby but very hairy!
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Pigeon said:
Oh Kellybee he's gorgeous, I'm partial to a spotty and he looks just like my old boy!!

05troyd, what a massive difference in four months! What's his breeding?
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Thanks
She was in an awful state at the auction but came round quickly and is such a star despite the rough start. She is a 4 year old part bred arab with Meriogen stud lines according to her passport.
 
Amazing differences! Pigeon, that doesn't look like the same horse!! Well done you!

This is my boy when i first got him.....

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And once he'd been with me for a while....

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eatmyshorts said:
Amazing differences! Pigeon, that doesn't look like the same horse!! Well done you!

This is my boy when i first got him.....

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And once he'd been with me for a while....

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:eek: Nice looking horse but Im afraid Id be mortified if id allowed (or worse, deliberately made) my horse that fat :( He's lovely and slim in the first picture but so fat in the later ones :( The showing world has much to answer for :(
 
LOL! I won't take offence at some of those comments! FionaM12, if you didn't wish to sound rude, perhaps you might have tried to think of at least something nice to say surely, before going on to say he was fat!

But yes, i agree, he is fat! He's also quite a bit younger & just broken in the first photo, so no topline or muscle. He's very much a typical good doing cob & lives on thin air! He's a total nightmare to keep weight off - i would certainly never deliberately keep weight on him - he'd been paddocked all Summer & in daily work at the time of those photos with no feed whatsoever! I can assure you, i am not the type to keep or make my horses fat for the showring - i don't show any more, but i only ever did it for a bit of fun anyway. He is now a veteran & still such a very good doer - currently living out 24/7, has had no feed or hay all Winter & i am just setting up a fatty paddock for him!! In January! Every Winter i think "He's bound to start losing weight now.... he's bound to start losing weight now..... please let him start losing weight now!!"

P.S Glad somebody appreciated his dotty feet tho!! Love his ermine marks.
 
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