FUN Topic.....That pic you show off first

It was the most fun summer :heart_eyes:

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Love the smile! Beautiful pictures.

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What breed is your horse? Great pix, looks like you had a blast!

He’s a grade Quarter Horse! I could share photos of him forever. First 2 from our first event 2 years ago. Last 2 are foal tax and his parents :blush:. He is 7.

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I love that he is a quarterhorse! I didn’t want to ask if he was an appendix because some people with warmbloods get a bit defensive. I got to ride a fellow boarders appendix in a couple clinics. He was such a wonderful horse. I think if more ammies rode quarterhorses there would be a lot more happy ammies :blush: (I’m not implying you’re an ammie, I’m just giving voice to the wonderful forgiveness that those horses show).

ps that pic of you giving the peace sign says it all!

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Thank you! He certainly thinks so! :wink:

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I adored the Appendix mare I had in college, and I wish more QHs were bred for h/j/eventing sport beyond the AQHA show circuit realm. You can’t beat the brain or the temperament. I mean those sporty QHs are out there, but I wouldn’t say they’re easy finds.

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Oh absolutely! They may not have the razzle dazzle of a warmblood, but they can be very nice movers and jumpers and will laugh at the joke with you. Good eggs

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That has got to be one of the most awsome pics I’ve ever seen. How lucky to have that!

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If we’re sharing Appendix QHs - this is my unregistered TBxQH. We showed Hunters, Dressage, and Eventing. A friend rode him with the local hunt. When I started riding this cross and draft crosses were the common sport horses. It’s still the cross I would choose, though they’re harder to find these days.

These pics are us at home. The jump is 3’6" - we were playing after a mini show held at the barn. The other is from a dressage clinic - he’s actually bum high conformation.

He’s 26 now and still my super horse, even if all we do now is WT trail rides.

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Love him!

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Current horse:

We haven’t done enough wildly exciting things yet, but he has been so fun and such a good egg. So far all the good parts of my heart horse with 80% less shenanigans.

My heart horse (who I was told was unlikely to have scope beyond 2’6" :sob:):

Also yes- I did buy those proofs, but only have the hard copies (this was pre-digital packages- if I do have the JPEGs they’re on a long dead computer).

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My APHA/TB mare has a great work ethic and the kind that pros say “every barn needs one”- my trainer was saying last night that she wished her current almost-FEI KWPN had the same work ethic and it’s kind of amazing how a horse bred to be an APHA/NSBA all arounder - and ended up 1.5-2 hands shorter than her full siblings - is knocking on 4th and we’re thinking won’t top out until PSG or I1. I wouldn’t breed my mare but I wish I knew what about her lines produced such a fun mare, they’re not particularly exciting lines so maybe it was luck and a really good start.

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I had to do a double take because you and two of us at our barn could do a hunt team! I have the same horse with four socks and another girl in the barn has it with no socks. :laughing: Needless to say, I think he’s lovely.

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As much as I love TBs and admire WBs, I also have to acknowledge that the horses I have had the most fun with in recent years and felt safest with and consequently push myself with have been qh or qh X (first no stirrup canter was a qh who made me work for it because he didn’t think I was ready. He was probably right, but I survived. First bareback canter was a qh X, who has also saved me once or twice when I screwed up a jump). And the ones I’ve ridden have just been very sweet, very chill, very generous guys.

I’m also a dabbler and mostly a pleasure rider, sure h/j is where I feel most at home, but if the horse has a western saddle? I will be riding in it, there’s a mountain trail horse place near me that I’d love to go to to play around with the obstacles, a working equitation place too, and lots of trails, county owned cross country with huge arenas and trails, etc. And quarterhorses do tend to be good all arounders…

And while I don’t think I’ll ever need a horse who can win a hack or anything like that, I do know a QH who went to 4th level dressage and another who is currently cleaning up at all the local hunter shows, so some of them can definitely be English fancy.

I just want fun and safe. And while I can find that in any breed, so far in my experience it seems more common in QH and QH cross.

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I’ve had several QH x TB crosses. My first horse (after the pony I shared with my sister) was a QH xTB (by Rebel out of Sunny, but those may not be thier registered names).

The next horse I owned, after college and grad school , was another QH x TB.

After she died of septic arthritis, I bought a 3/4 TB x 1/4 QH (bred by ASB_Stars).

I now have 2 TB x Connemara mares.

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Love you pix! Wasn’t the cross (TBxQTH) really popular in the 80’s? I also remember the ConnemaraxTB cross as being very popular with lower level eventers. Those horses all seem to have jump talent and a ‘go over whatever they’re pointed at’ personalities.

The first TB x QH was in the 60s. The second and third were in the 80s.

WRT to Connemaras and crosses, they almost all have a great jump.

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I’m at the neurologist with my mom, who has dementia. We’re looking at the pictures from this thread and she really brightened up at your guy–her favorite eventer was a chestnut leopard Appaloosa named Exploding Poptart.

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Quite possibly the best name for a horse I’ve ever heard :rofl:

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