Lolo
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So a year ago, there was a mega bunfight in here. And as I idly clicked through I saw the cause of it all was a pretty little grey, who had triggered a different argument merely 3 years earlier...
So Smokey was introduced to HHO by bexcy_bee June 2011. He looked like this...
And a lot of very sensible people said he looked a bit like a donkey and to avoid like the plague. So obviously she tried him, he tried to rodeo her off and he went home with her fairly shortly afterwards. Lucky pony landed firmly on his feet!
And then last year, June 2013, bexcy_bee sadly advertised him after doing amazing work to turn him into a confident, happy little horse. And by sheer luck of me clicking on a mega thread about him, Al saw him, fell head over heels and he came home a week later!
And now he's been with us a year, and he could not be more lovely. He is becoming a proper eventing pony, he LOVES working hard and going out to 'parties' and he is still a confident and cheerful soul who settles in anywhere as long as he can have a nap and some food! He's stayed at a 4* eventers yard as a WP (with Al), he's produced 3 double clears on sub-40 dressage at 90cm ODEs and everyone who has met him has stuffed him with compliments...
And some photos of the most awesome event pony ever in action from this weekend (report in Comp Riders if anyone is interested!)
(he is slightly overbent, but he's still doing lots of long and low and stretchy stuff and his self carriage is slowly coming from that- Al's instructors are very pleased with how he is working, and so is she)
(we think he finds 90cm a bit big...)
I thought you might all enjoy a Smokes update!
So Smokey was introduced to HHO by bexcy_bee June 2011. He looked like this...
And a lot of very sensible people said he looked a bit like a donkey and to avoid like the plague. So obviously she tried him, he tried to rodeo her off and he went home with her fairly shortly afterwards. Lucky pony landed firmly on his feet!
And then last year, June 2013, bexcy_bee sadly advertised him after doing amazing work to turn him into a confident, happy little horse. And by sheer luck of me clicking on a mega thread about him, Al saw him, fell head over heels and he came home a week later!
And now he's been with us a year, and he could not be more lovely. He is becoming a proper eventing pony, he LOVES working hard and going out to 'parties' and he is still a confident and cheerful soul who settles in anywhere as long as he can have a nap and some food! He's stayed at a 4* eventers yard as a WP (with Al), he's produced 3 double clears on sub-40 dressage at 90cm ODEs and everyone who has met him has stuffed him with compliments...
And some photos of the most awesome event pony ever in action from this weekend (report in Comp Riders if anyone is interested!)
(he is slightly overbent, but he's still doing lots of long and low and stretchy stuff and his self carriage is slowly coming from that- Al's instructors are very pleased with how he is working, and so is she)
(we think he finds 90cm a bit big...)
I thought you might all enjoy a Smokes update!