My schedule is impossible. Every time I think I get Encore back in a flow, there's some other appointment or meeting I must attend. Stupid life.
So instead, let's visit Imaginary Land. There, I have endless time and I build card towers out my $100 bills because I have soooo many extras.
Someone else visits Imaginary Land too. Meet Roxy (she's the one that makes you go OMG SQUEEE!!!!).
Roxy was a 'surprise' baby. A fellow boarder purchased her dam, a TWH mare, late this past spring as a pleasure horse under the assumption she was just buying a normal horse. Three weeks later, Roxy fell out. Surprise.
Roxy has, I believe, been given to the BO as a companion for a SSH (Spotted Saddle Horse, or to me, a paint TWH) filly he bred who is only a month older. He will keep her until they (now best of friends) are about 2.5 years old, at which point he will start his filly and sell Roxy.
Cool story, bro. Right?
This is where Imaginary Me enters. See, I've been watching Roxy. She's at the ugly seven-month-old-yak stage right now, but this summer -- well, you know how they say you see what a young horse will be at 3 days, 3 months, and 3 years? I saw. And I WANT.
What the heck are you going to do with a Walking Horse filly? you ask, quite sensibly. For the sellers of her dam don't know who the sire is, yet "swear" that he was also a purebred TWH. You don't even want a mare within ten feet of you! This is true.
Well, if Roxy is a purebred TWH, then I am the second coming of Tinkerbell. Because even as an ugly yak, this is how she moves (the painted filly is her BFF, Callie):
Why yes, that is a perfectly balanced canter that takes almost no effort to envision circling a course of 5' jumps! With a lovely trot with just enough suspension to not be overkill. At 3 months old, she was a dead ringer for an Oldenburg, with a broad chest, straight, well-boned legs, and skeletal structure that is pretty close to perfect. She has never gaited a day of her life. She is also very intelligent and will be a brave, but sensitive horse. Even Encore is in love with her; the filly pasture is across the lane from my pasture and he hangs out near them when Solo is out and always stops to say hello when we ride by the fenceline, where Roxy does that adorable baby mouth thing (I need to upload that video).
BO has even offered to give Roxy to me. Cruel and unusual torture. Yes, she is a girl, by which I am pretty much never tempted. But she has the look. That look in her eye which made my decision for me when I met Solo and Encore both. That look which says if you want, I could be your partner and we could be great together. OMG$#*$&#^!
Sadly, I am unable to find a bridge between Imaginary Land and Reality, so I am forced to tell BO I will be happy to take her...the day she starts pooping money. He has given me free rein to go in the pasture and play with her, although for now, her dam's owner spends a little time getting her used to being touched and handled and both Roxy and her BFF are friendly and inquisitive. Maybe when she is a little older, in my Imaginary Free Time, I can teach her some round pen work and ground driving and hope that someone in the sport horse world discovers her because someday, she will be amazing.
So instead, let's visit Imaginary Land. There, I have endless time and I build card towers out my $100 bills because I have soooo many extras.
Someone else visits Imaginary Land too. Meet Roxy (she's the one that makes you go OMG SQUEEE!!!!).
About one month old this past July |
Roxy has, I believe, been given to the BO as a companion for a SSH (Spotted Saddle Horse, or to me, a paint TWH) filly he bred who is only a month older. He will keep her until they (now best of friends) are about 2.5 years old, at which point he will start his filly and sell Roxy.
Cool story, bro. Right?
This is where Imaginary Me enters. See, I've been watching Roxy. She's at the ugly seven-month-old-yak stage right now, but this summer -- well, you know how they say you see what a young horse will be at 3 days, 3 months, and 3 years? I saw. And I WANT.
What the heck are you going to do with a Walking Horse filly? you ask, quite sensibly. For the sellers of her dam don't know who the sire is, yet "swear" that he was also a purebred TWH. You don't even want a mare within ten feet of you! This is true.
Well, if Roxy is a purebred TWH, then I am the second coming of Tinkerbell. Because even as an ugly yak, this is how she moves (the painted filly is her BFF, Callie):
Why yes, that is a perfectly balanced canter that takes almost no effort to envision circling a course of 5' jumps! With a lovely trot with just enough suspension to not be overkill. At 3 months old, she was a dead ringer for an Oldenburg, with a broad chest, straight, well-boned legs, and skeletal structure that is pretty close to perfect. She has never gaited a day of her life. She is also very intelligent and will be a brave, but sensitive horse. Even Encore is in love with her; the filly pasture is across the lane from my pasture and he hangs out near them when Solo is out and always stops to say hello when we ride by the fenceline, where Roxy does that adorable baby mouth thing (I need to upload that video).
BO has even offered to give Roxy to me. Cruel and unusual torture. Yes, she is a girl, by which I am pretty much never tempted. But she has the look. That look in her eye which made my decision for me when I met Solo and Encore both. That look which says if you want, I could be your partner and we could be great together. OMG$#*$&#^!
Sadly, I am unable to find a bridge between Imaginary Land and Reality, so I am forced to tell BO I will be happy to take her...the day she starts pooping money. He has given me free rein to go in the pasture and play with her, although for now, her dam's owner spends a little time getting her used to being touched and handled and both Roxy and her BFF are friendly and inquisitive. Maybe when she is a little older, in my Imaginary Free Time, I can teach her some round pen work and ground driving and hope that someone in the sport horse world discovers her because someday, she will be amazing.