How to turn him out?

[Dexter]

I appreciate he looks horrific in these pics, but please be nice as this is my pride and joy! Hes 9 months old and currently standing 14hands give or take, maybe a little bit less. I have no idea where all the hair and feather came from as hes supposedly out of a section D mare by a MW mainly TB coloured stallion! His saving grace is that he moves beautifully Hes currently losing his coat and I'm hoping over the next month he'll go back to sleek and shiny baby pony

I bought him mainly to keep my other youngster company, but after discovering how few classes there are at local level for brown ponies I deliberately bought a coloured! So the plan for Seven is to get out and about at local level over the summer doing coloured classes, and the brown pony will come along for life experience and to do handsomest gelding and that sort of thing. So how do I turn Seven out? Hes not got enough hair to be traditional, but he has too much hair for anything else

And what do I wear? Tweed and black trousers?? It will only be local level and for life experience, but I would like to be turned out properly, and he isnt really a specific type!

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

I think he is lovely, i love a nice hairy coloured cob type though so am utterly biased!

 

[narkymare]

he so does not look horrific!!!!
He looks totally georgeous!!!!

 

[Dexter]

Aww, thanks, I adore everything about him, but you want to see him close up! Hes a moth eaten hair bag His coat is still 2 inches deep in places! And despite being called Seven because his blaze was a the shape of a seven, his blaze is now flamingo shaped, so hes dangerously close to being renamed Flamingo

 

[CinnamonChristmasCookie]

Brown trousers (contrast against his legs), smart shoes or boots, brown or green tweed jacket.

Pony in leather head collar and matching lead rein, brown cos he is. Get to work with a shedding blade!

Lucky number seven for show name? Or pink flamingo?

Look at my albums, pictures of my coloured cob winning his first class.

Very cute youngster, gonna be a beautiful cob type!

 

[Tnavas]

He's lovely - genetics does weird things, I have two Clydesdale crosses - bred from my own Clyde mare. One by a Holsteiner has his mums build and his sires fine coat. The other is half TB has legs up to her armpits, looks like a TB but in winter grows feathers and a beard just like her mum!

Cross breds are usually shown trimmed and plaited so wait to see what falls out and then trim the rest. Pull his mane and show him in coloured classes - do they have Sport Horse classes in UK?

I show mine 'In Hand' in Sport Horse (Olympic Disciplines) and in Saddle Hunter classes. They have done really well.

 

[CinnamonChristmasCookie]

Show him in cob classes, leave his mane and feather alone. He's a bit young to pull yet etc.

 

[Dexter]

Hes registered as Seven Deadly Gins, suggested by someone on facebook, its inspired as I would never have bought another youngster, never mind a completely unhandled and feral one, if several deadly gins hadnt been consumed

Best thing I ever did! hes a damn sight easier than my other youngster who has been handled properly from birth, and I have really high hopes for him as a riding horse. I just wish he'd stop with the growing and hair sprouting, hes supposed to be a 15 hands MW, clean legged working hunter type!

 

[Dexter]

Anyone else?

The genreal consensus seems to be show him as a cob, but hes soo not a proper traditonal cob and youngsters shown as show cobs are clipped and pulled. Plus I'm in denial, lol If I was to show him a a cob, I have jods, long boots, green tweed jacket, green velvet hat and NO tie or stock! But I was thinking tie wise something with a different base colour but with green running through it??

Even I can see I'm being a bit silly! I adore Seven, but I can also see hes not really typey enough for anything, so its not that important! The whole showing thing is about miles on the clock, I just happened to watch a lot of local showing last year and it gave me the judders!! I dont want to be one of those people like me are slating for taking a lead rein pony in a class in high heels and denim hot pants, with your kid in trackies and a skull cap with no silk...