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In This Year of the Horse, please share in my joy
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:45 pm
by valerie
At long last, I finally have a horse of my own again and
I'm over the moon about it.
He is a Welsh/Quarter horse and his name is Leland for
Leland Stanford, to keep our "California" theme going.
Here is a pic, forgive the winter garb (his and mine!) it
was very cold and sleeting a little in the mountains when
I went to look at him:
https://plus.google.com/photos/10477453 ... 6272273729
In This Year of the Horse, please share in my joy
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:48 am
by Chloe_88
He's beautiful!
In This Year of the Horse, please share in my joy
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:53 am
by Snooz
That's great, Val! Will you get to keep him stabled locally or will he be up in the foothills where the riding is so pretty?
In This Year of the Horse, please share in my joy
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 4:50 am
by tabby
Happy riding, Val! :-6
In This Year of the Horse, please share in my joy
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 5:30 am
by Oscar Namechange
Congratulations Val. I understand your joy !!!
He's absolutely beautiful and I'm so jealous.
I envisage a beautiful relationship between you. Give him a snog for me.
In This Year of the Horse, please share in my joy
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 6:27 am
by G#Gill
Congratulations, Val, what a good-looking horse he is ! I'm really envious, you lucky person. I always had a hankering after owning my own horse, but cost prevented it unfortunately. Now I'm too long in the tooth and in any case cost is still a factor ! :-1
In This Year of the Horse, please share in my joy
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:35 am
by LarsMac
Gratz! A fine looking critter.
In This Year of the Horse, please share in my joy
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:51 am
by valerie
Thanks everyone!
Snooz, he will be kept up in the mountains. If I kept him down here,
not only is it waaaay more expensive, when I wanted to ride up there
I'd have to trailer him up! (He is a good boy in the trailer, it's just the
hassle part of it!)
G#Gill, I'm 61 years old, and plan on riding at least another 15 years if
not much more. My Dad rode into his early 70's, only stopped really due
to having to care for Mom.
In This Year of the Horse, please share in my joy
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:13 am
by Wandrin
Congrats Valerie! Handsome guy!
In This Year of the Horse, please share in my joy
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:10 pm
by Bryn Mawr
A smart looking horse who'll look after you as well as I know you'll look after him.
In This Year of the Horse, please share in my joy
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:59 pm
by Lady J
Congrats Valerie! I hope you and Leland share many happy trails together. :yh_clap
Has you dog met Leland yet?
In This Year of the Horse, please share in my joy
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 10:44 pm
by valerie
Funny you should mention that Lady J, husband and I were just talking about it.
She hasn't met him, and I don't know how we'd work it since where he's boarded
there are 2 resident males to deal with. (They're nice dogs, just probably a
tad bit territorial) Also I kind of worry about the infamous GSD herding instincts!
In This Year of the Horse, please share in my joy
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 10:51 pm
by Lady J
valerie;1447272 wrote: Funny you should mention that Lady J, husband and I were just talking about it.
She hasn't met him, and I don't know how we'd work it since where he's boarded
there are 2 resident males to deal with. (They're nice dogs, just probably a
tad bit territorial) Also I kind of worry about the infamous GSD herding instincts!
It would be interesting but perhaps it is best to keep everyone in their perspective homes? I'm sure what ever you decide will work out thou.
Please be sure to keep us posted and do send some pictures of you riding Leland!