Pictures I may have done a thing…buying unseen

He is lovely! Very similar colouring to my TB/connie boy who on his passport is chocolate dun - a very common description in Ireland. My boy has the most lovely dapples in the summer, but looks like a dark bay in winter.
Looks like your boy will be beautiful. What is his breeding? Always interested in connie breeding - I also have 2 purebreds, one grey, one buckskin.
 
First Frost said:
He is lovely! Very similar colouring to my TB/connie boy who on his passport is chocolate dun - a very common description in Ireland. My boy has the most lovely dapples in the summer, but looks like a dark bay in winter.
Looks like your boy will be beautiful. What is his breeding? Always interested in connie breeding - I also have 2 purebreds, one grey, one buckskin.
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He is by Maghera Fadda Lad out of Caherlistrane Darkie Lady (by Caherlistrane Blackie). I have seen pictures of the sire who is a big chunky buckskin but can’t find out much on the dams side. I think mine has settled on being a very dark buckskin with some funky fading that turns his mane copper (sadly he has rubbed the copper out this year so just the black visible mostly now).
 
He looks stunning. He sounds like a cool wee guy. Hopefully he will be fun and easy to back!

I'm glad I have one neurotic horse and one so-chilled-she's horizontal horse. I think you will be too. Mine get identical feeds, except he gets valerian and she does not. I think if Hermosa got Fin's valerian, she'd be like a stoner in her stable. "Duuuude, have you seen the patterns on these breeze blocks?”
 
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Caol Ila said:
He looks stunning. He sounds like a cool wee guy. Hopefully he will be fun and easy to back!

I'm glad I have one neurotic horse and one so-chilled-she's horizontal horse. I think you will be too. Mine get identical feeds, except he gets valerian and she does not. I think if Hermosa got Fin's valerian, she'd be like a stoner in her stable. "Duuuude, have you seen the pattens on these breeze blocks?”
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? that’s so true!
He’s sensitive but super laid back at the same time. Perfectly happy to be all on his own (his field mate went out to a clinic today and the other two disappeared off out of his view most of the time, he just hung out at the far end of his big field, chilling out whilst BBP was screaming and racing around).
 
Lovely. ♥️♥️

I've come to realise after getting totally screw*d over that a vetting ain't worth the paper its written on.

Buying unseen seems to be more reliable ??
 
Birker2020 said:
Lovely. ♥️♥️

I've come to realise after getting totally screw*d over that a vetting ain't worth the paper its written on.

Buying unseen seems to be more reliable ??
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Haha! Well that plus I now have the ‘anything can happen at any time so I may as well like expensive lawn mowers’ attitude now. He almost totally severed a tendon last winter so there is always the potential that a youngster may never turn into a riding horse.
 
BBP said:
Haha! Well that plus I now have the ‘anything can happen at any time so I may as well like expensive lawn mowers’ attitude now. He almost totally severed a tendon last winter so there is always the potential that a youngster may never turn into a riding horse.
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Oh no! What a nightmare for you. I hope he does come good, it would be such a shame if he didn't. Its a lottery this horse ownership, it really is.
 
Birker2020 said:
Oh no! What a nightmare for you. I hope he does come good, it would be such a shame if he didn't. Its a lottery this horse ownership, it really is.
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It really is. We think BBP was bouncing behind him trying to get him to play and reared up and came down with a hoof straight onto the tendons above the hock. Vet said it was a traumatic rupture rather than cut through, so the impact of the hoof just blew the superficial digital flexor tendon apart, just 20% holding it together. He was completely non weight baring and I was sure he was a gonner. We didn’t exactly do rehab by the book with him being so young and unhandled, but things are looking pretty good. This is him this summer having escaped from custody and showing his aptitude as a cross country pony.

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Widgeon said:
He looks wonderful but surely you must've been having kittens watching him exhibiting his skills so soon after release!?
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Um, yes, just a bit! He had already been doing some pretty excellent star jumps in his restricted space, plus jumped his huge water trough and a 1.2m gate so he says just try keeping him confined for too long!
 
Pinkvboots said:
He looks really cute hopefully he will be fine to ride when the time comes.
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Fingers crossed. But not the end of the world if it is not to be. After a year of searching I found his breeders and contacted them this morning and they sent me the most adorable baby photos. His mum was obviously going through a Tina Turner phase as even as a foal he had the fluffy orange mane!
 
BBP said:
Fingers crossed. But not the end of the world if it is not to be. After a year of searching I found his breeders and contacted them this morning and they sent me the most adorable baby photos. His mum was obviously going through a Tina Turner phase as even as a foal he had the fluffy orange mane!
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Bless him, I worked for a woman that bred dressage horses one of her fillies was a similar colour to yours and she was registered as a liver chestnut but looked like a chocolate dun.
 
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