Photos of 3 year olds V maturity

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Thought a thread showing photos of our horses at 3 years old and at maturity may reassure someone who has just purchased a rather gorgeous red boy that he will get a lot bigger ☺
Here is mine first photo 3 yrs 2nd 6 yrs
 

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Maybe I'll remember to get a good photo of Hermosa tomorrow. She was meant to have a hot date with the saddle fitter but that's been postponed until Tuesday, due to both saddle fitter and me having cold of doom. So she'll hack tomorrow. Lucky her. She is so, so different from how she was a 3 yr old. I really was thinking of selling her as soon as a I backed her. When I first bought her, she was very sane. Then she became pretty ditzy right before foaling. Fair enough. I don't really want to talk about how she was immediately following having the foal. But we got through that, and between one month and seven months after having said foal, I was thinking, "i really like this horse." After we weaned our BOGOF foal, she went through a phase of being a flighty, spooky idiot who had forgotten everything she had learned, and I was like, "I really can't deal with this ditzy sort of horse. I am definitel selling." But she cooled her heels from all that and she's been pretty damn good to back and produce.

God, I saw Joe Midgely advertising space for a training horse to come to his Lincolnshire yard for a month. I went through a whole thing in my head and with my husband. Joe could really develop her hackamore skills in a way I never, ever can. But you know, she's fine. She does what I ask. She doesn't have any serious behavioural issues. We're fine. We're just muddling along in our hackamore training 'cause I'm an idiot, but she putzes around Mugdock in a civilised and happy way, often solo, and what more could you want. Plus, she'd have to be away for a month. Not happy about that. Then OH, who is from Lincolnshire, suggested that if I was really serious, I could stay with his mum, who only lives forty minutes from Joe's yard. Though surely the point of it being at a training yard is that the owner isn't there every day.

There are people with real problems who could use that space. We are fine. We are just mediocre, together, in our weird but basically happy way.

A month is a long time, but maybe, in the future, a week or two of that isn't stupid. Maybe when we are thinking about upgrading to the two rein.
 
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Caol Ila said:
Maybe I'll remember to get a good photo of Hermosa tomorrow. She was meant to have a hot date with the saddle fitter but that's been postponed until Tuesday, due to both saddle fitter and me having cold of doom. So she'll hack tomorrow. Lucky her. She is so, so different from how she was a 3 yr old. I really was thinking of selling her as soon as a I backed her. When I first bought her, she was very sane. Then she became pretty ditzy right before foaling. Fair enough. I don't really want to talk about how she was immediately following having the foal. But we got through that, and between one month and seven months after having said foal, I was thinking, "i really like this horse." After we weaned our BOGOF foal, she went through a phase of being a flighty, spooky idiot who had forgotten everything she had learned, and I was like, "I really can't deal with this ditzy sort of horse. I am definitel selling." But she cooled her heels from all that and she's been pretty damn good to back and produce.

God, I saw Joe Midgely advertising space for a training horse to come to his Lincolnshire yard for a month. I went through a whole thing in my head and with my husband. Joe could really develop her hackamore skills in a way I never, ever can. But you know, she's fine. She does what I ask. She doesn't have any serious behavioural issues. We're fine. We're just muddling along in our hackamore training 'cause I'm an idiot, but she putzes around Mugdock in a civilised and happy way, often solo, and what more could you want. Plus, she'd have to be away for a month. Not happy about that. Then OH, who is from Lincolnshire, suggested that if I was really serious, I could stay with his mum, who only lives forty minutes from Joe's yard. Though surely the point of it being at a training yard is that the owner isn't there every day.

There are people with real problems who could use that space. We are fine. We are just mediocre, together, in our weird but basically happy way.

A month is a long time, but maybe, in the future, a week or two of that isn't stupid. Maybe when we are thinking about upgrading to the two rein.
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Well you two always look like you are having a blast in your pictures! Told you Spanish are the best 🤣
 
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Lauraback said:
Hey all
Thought a thread showing photos of our horses at 3 years old and at maturity may reassure someone who has just purchased a rather gorgeous red boy that he will get a lot bigger ☺
Here is mine first photo 3 yrs 2nd 6 yrs
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Omg I missed this thread somehow!!! Thank you!
 
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