ugly ducklings? lets see your before and after pics!

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i was just browsing through some old photos and i found V's baby photos from when i bought him- can't believe how much he has changed! i have a video of him somewhere from when i went to see him....must try and find it as would probably be very interesting 3 years down the line!

as a rising 4 year old:
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Last season as a 6 year old:

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did anyone else buy an ugly duckling that has turned out ok?! :D

(sorry if the pics are huge- no idea how to resize!)
 
Great thread, love seeing how they transform. Diggerbez your horse is beautiful. Emma s that jump is huge you would not have believed the pony in the first photo would have that in him :)

This is Zak at rising 4 - I would say he would have been classed as a very ugly wild looking duckling.

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After a few years work he did however make it to swan (well he did in my eyes;) he has been a fabulous horse to me and is now 16 and will never go anywhere :)

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Eta - sorry for lack of hat, it is actually was a very rare occasion when I don't wear it.
 
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Before as a rather scruffy, green 7 year old...

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After and a far more polished 14 year old...

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And now as a distinguished old, scruffy gentleman...

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:D :D :D Although I think he is rather handsome in all his forms :D

Mally's is far less dramatic as she has always been a swan!

Before as a 4.5 year old...

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And now as a proper growed up 5.5 year old (officially 6 I guess!)...

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vicky86 said:
Great thread, love seeing how they transform. Diggerbez your horse is beautiful. Emma s that jump is huge you would not have believed the pony in the first photo would have that in him :)
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Thanks that fence is 1.20mx1.20m and my little chap only ever made 11.3hh :eek: but he was a rig so i think that made him really gutsy!

Your chap is a real stunner:)
 
some amazing transformations here folks! :D when i bought V i was really unsure how he would turn out as i couldn't see past the scrawny fluffiness! showjump...i would never believe that was the same horse from first to last pic!
 
Some absolutely stunning transformations, particularly impressed with Peej.

Missy, although always a sweetheart, was undoubtedly not the most attractive yearling:
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But she turned out pretty in the end, 4 in these pics!

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This transformation I was particularly pleased with, a 5yo I produced for someone in the UK for about 6 weeks I think, photos when he arrived and then that we used for selling.

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And this 7yo mare, who I bought as a project and sold a few months later (I'm still in touch with her owner, best bit of match-making I ever did)! Betsy the day she arrived and her selling pics:

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Lovely thread - some of the changes in the horses are massive!



Here is Ettie when I went to go and see her. She was four at the time:

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(bit like a greyhound :D)

And ridden:

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Then when she was 7:

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Ridden:
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Ohhh yes and we still have a way to go!!

Storm when she arrived from Ireland 3 1/2 year old
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First Dressage Outing as an almost 4 year old
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First baby Jump ;)
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And the most recent as a 5 year old at her first ODE
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kirstyhen said:
He has far too much fun beating the young foals into shape here :D Oh and hacking out with Mally, winding her up by jumping at nothing, then bogging off across a field with my novice Dad :rolleyes: Someone has regressed to say the very least :D
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My old boy did that- progressively got more and more outrageous in his antics. It took me 40 minutes to get him past a (stationery, off) tractor. He'd lived on farms for the past 14 years. Eventually, the farmer got out and helped me drag him past, trying to console me with "These young ones have to learn!". Cheeky was 26...

Don't know if Fregga counts. He's always been a pretty boy in my horrendously biased opinion!

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2 years of hard work :)
 
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