That’s a great photo!
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Thank you! I loved it so much I bought it instead of any riding pics. Reminds me of all the behind the scenes work we do to get that winning moment.
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Congrats! and for sharing the link!
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I would have done the same thing. Riding photos are so common, but these special little moments are precious to have caught on camera. 
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never ever figured out how this foal did this
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I love that the dogs are watching. 
Cute little foal.
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:dizzy: Thank goodness someone was home to get that little one out. Years ago a friend had a foal get stuck in one of the big truck tires they were using as feeders. She was lucky her husband was home and he and the neighbor got the kid out. I’ve since seen pix of foals that have died getting trapped the same way. The tires are supposed to be turned so there isn’t a space on the inside.
Horses have so many ways to kill themselves.
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My last homebred was a hambone! Here he is loving taking selfies. He’s out in SE Pa now as a Junior Hunter. Has his very own young teen boy. His big personality is all heart.
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Beautiful! You remind me of a woman I saw on a TV program that had trained a Przewalski (sp?) horse. She did it with ‘kisses’. When first in the round pen and getting close she noticed how the little mare would poke her nose towards her. She got close enough to kiss the mares nose one day and after that she said it was a love fest. 
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Apologies for the quality of this picture. It was taken about 5 (?) years ago. It had just finished snowing a few inches up here in Arizona and my friend Beth called and said, “Let’s go for a ride in the fresh snow.” So I saddled up my awesome Paint horse, Wally, and met Beth and her horse Jack on the trail that ran behind her house.
I was in front (Jack was very slow) and Beth called out to me and said, “Hey, turn around,” and snapped this photo. Being a beach girl from SoCal, this was a magical experience for me.
Wally has been gone for several years now but I still remember this moment and keep this little snapshot in my wallet. It always reminds me that despite how down we might get at times, the connection with a great horse can lift our spirits.
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It was really interesting how he was most confident with his muzzle/face being touched - intuitively I guess I was expecting his head to be the hardest part to handle. Even now 8 months later when he gets nervous, he puts his head in my arms 
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We spent so many hours every day hanging out with him when he came home. He was pretty confident with coming up to eat grass from us right away but if he accidentally touched us, he would act like he touched a cattle prod. I stopped trying to push the issue and literally a day later I was standing with my hands resting on the fence and he walked over and rubbed his face right up against my hands, and proceeded to let me scratch him all over, and now he is a chubby, sassy, (mostly) domestic pony 
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Warrick Schiller has a couple of interesting videos on rubbing a horses muzzle and letting them touch you with their lips.
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That story is the best! I’d love to do that.
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My favorite overgrown pony in the midst of chewing one carrot and asking for another, but somehow showing off his teeths and looking like he’s smiling. Best, hungry hungry goofball.
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Gotta keep trying, gotta try harder. Gotta commit.
Grew up to be a champion at something challenging? 
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this miniature who we never figured out how she got into this predicament was purchased by a nurse to become a therapy horse at a retirement home
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What an adorable photo of Woodrow !!!
Love a chestnut with a white face marking !!!
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