Dont think ive really ever introduced my boy

[dressagecrazy]

I realised last night that i dont really share many pic's on here at all, so armed with a Mother

& a Camera i got some upto date one's this afternoon.

Horse is a KWPN 18hh 9yo gelding, we compete in Dresssage currently competing Ele. Ive owned him 4 years & he has been the biggest challange of my whole riding career. Lets just say he had some very serious issues when he came to me.
Everything had to be taken very slowly with him for a long time, so it's only in the last year we've made any real progress. Only thing now is he needs a better rider.

Ok im bitting the bullet & here he is -

 

[MandyMoo]

oo lovely horse

he is gorgeous

and crikey, 18hh...thats mahoosive!

btw, are you quite tall? he doesnt look really big in the photos.

xxx

 

[Meandtheboys]

lovely horse............but no hat!!!!!

 

[MillbrookSong]

Lovely! But wheres your hat!!!

 

[bigboyrocky]

wow he lovelyy! huge though!

just an observation,, is his bit too big for him ? as in the bottom picture it looks like it coming through quite alot either side

and where is your hat?!! he is gorgeous though

 

[AutumnRose]

He's gorgeous, what a huge boy!!! Very smart

 

[dressagecrazy]

Yes sorry Hat was an oversight!!

I wouldnt normally post pic's online without one & dont advocate others seeing these photo's & copying me at all, but unfortunately i don't get a photographer very often now so it was these or nothing.
Guess nothing might of been better.

 

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

lovely boy, hows he bred?

i used to have a 17.3hh so my 16.2hh seems like a titch now lol!!

wouldnt worry about the hat too much, personal choice and all that.i never wear one at home unless a client asks me to.

 

[Tiffany]

Lovely horse although at 18hh I'd need oxygen

You must be quite tall otherwise you'd look like a pea on a mountain

Think I might have seen you competing at Beaver Hall?

 

[Seahorse]

what a lovely horse xx

 

[dressagecrazy]

Im 5"9 but he's not got a great depth of body so it seems to even us both out getting on is a problem i climb the fence at home, but when out & about it can be a struggle with a standard mounting block.
Im glad he is 18hh though as ive put on 2 stone in the last 2 years.

Needless to say losing weight is a NYR.

Prince33Sp4rkle - He's by Nourejev.

 

[Tinseltoes]

Nice horse,no hat???????

 

[Mickeymoo]

Pity you haven't got a hat on.

 

[dressagecrazy]

Yes no Hat, i have posted above about it being an oversight as i would normally wear one for Photo's. However what i do at home is my own choice like it or not im afraid.

I will remove photo's as it's obviously causing a problem.

 

[FrodoBeutlin]

Please don't, they are lovely pictures and he is a gorgeous horse!

 

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

he reminds me a lot of my big lad, but he was by an Animo stallion.

unless you are whiter then white and dont smoke, drink, use your phone whilst driving etc, you cant really comment on the hat situation i dont think, just my opinion, and no doubt wont be popular, but there you go.

 

[SpottedCat]

Luckily I think the pics will have been up too long now, so unless you PM admin they will have to stay!

They are great pics, lovely horse...and really everyone, rider is over 18, she chooses to ride without a hat, so what? Would you all have commented if she was wearing a beagler, which is basically papier mache?

I've stopped posting pics/vids of me and my horse on here because pretty much everything gets ripped apart one way or the other these days. It never used to be that way (though admittedly people have always had a bee in their bonnets about the hat thing).

No-one ever comments on pics of people in Top Hat and Tails (all those CCI* pics this summer which were great to see for example) saying 'great pics, shame about the hat' - and a top hat will do precisely nothing in the event of a fall too, so why the double standards?

 

[madhector]

Lovely photos, please dont take them down, your choice whether you wear a hat or not, no different from competing in a beagler which most people in comp riders do.....

 

[dressagecrazy]

Thank you for a little support & thank you for the nice comments about my boy

As said before the Hat for these Photo's was an Oversight & it would of been a Beagler anyway so not of much use anyway as SC states.

I also hadnt realised i couldnt delete Pic's i thought i could edit the post & remove them??

Oh & on another note im sad that i look over 18

, however 18 was a very long time ago now

lol one can wish though

!!

 

[carthorse]

Lovely

 

[Fiona]

Lucky you being able to ride!!!

Lovely pics, and lovely horsie - rather huge, but lovely.

Fiona

 

[NewHeights_SJ]

uh - oh... heres comes the 'no hat' brigade!

He looks lovely!

 

[lizzieb]

He's lovely

I would never have guessed from the photos that he's 18hands! Best of luck in your competitions.

 

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

this was my big lad...

 

[flohelf]

Lovely horse and rider ! And please, leave the pics on....

God, some people

 

[BBs]

Super horse, glad I got to see the pictures

Looks a really kind sort.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[MillbrookSong]

I think most of us were doing it in jest!! I have no problem with people riding without hats as its personal preference!

 

[trendybraincell]

Wow thats alot of horse!! He looks fab!!

 

[rotters13]

Lovely lovely horse. Is he available in a 15.2hh version?

 

[charlie55]

Wow, he looks a lovely sort!! I used to compete an ex police horse that was he's double.
Gorgeous x