One Day Soon, is that Fritz?
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whew… I like him!
Yes Fairweather, that sure is Fritz/Fly Me Home. He’s AWESOME!!!
Recent photo from Training Horse Trial at Difficult Run:
http://www.photoreflect.com/scripts/prsm.dll?EventOrder?photo=0EBK00441J0029&album=381451&adjust=1
I know I’m joining this pretty late, but… Here’s my 2007 Feiner Stern colt, Feuer Stern MF. He’s the easiest, most level-headed foal I’ve ever dealt with. Weaning didn’t phase him, nothing scares him, he learned to cross-tie in a day, and I think he was born knowing how to load. I’m very glad of it, too…considering he’s 14.2 at 5 months and we’re planning to keep him as a stallion prospect!
My only “complaint” is that he’s a bit lazy right now. He’s a great mover, but if he’s not got a horsefly chasing him… haha Anyone else encountered that? Tell me he’ll wake up a little bit eventually? :winkgrin:
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y179/krazykal99/Feuer%20Stern/
LOVELY colt, FullCircle!
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I know I’m joining this pretty late, but… Here’s my 2007 Feiner Stern colt, Feuer Stern MF. He’s the easiest, most level-headed foal I’ve ever dealt with. Weaning didn’t phase him, nothing scares him, he learned to cross-tie in a day, and I think he was born knowing how to load. I’m very glad of it, too…considering he’s 14.2 at 5 months and we’re planning to keep him as a stallion prospect!
My only “complaint” is that he’s a bit lazy right now. He’s a great mover, but if he’s not got a horsefly chasing him… haha Anyone else encountered that? Tell me he’ll wake up a little bit eventually? :winkgrin:
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y179/krazykal99/Feuer%20Stern/[/QUOTE]
Yes, really lovely colt!
My FS is LAZZEEEE too but absolutely goes bonkers over bugs - especially those extra large bee things. Only thing that really gets him excited. My guy does wake up enough to compete - we just came back from the American Eventing Championships in the Training division, and are signed-up for our 1st prelim event. …still, he needs a lot of caffeine! Sorry I can’t promise anything for your young guy.
bugs
holy cow…my FS mare is terrible with bugs. Goes nuts. she likes to be out int he field for just a few hours, as soon as the sun starts setting, she paces and demands to be brought back in. she LOVES her fly mask and fly spray. I wouldn’t call her lazy and I wouldn’t call her hyper. Well, more towards the lazy side…maybe a 4.5 on 10 being the hottest.
An update on my 2004 FS filly who has been such a monster! She just started training and has been backed and is doing fantastic! She is eating up her training and is very nonchalant about it all. I am SO proud of her! She has had some stifle locking issues so I was worried about starting her, but she is moving and looking great! She has finally started growing into her body and looking much more balanced - although she still has a lot of growing to do.
Pictures and video clip of her 2nd ride, 4th training session:
http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/schwung/Feinesse/
The trainer LOVES her and I am so proud of her!
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An update on my 2004 FS filly who has been such a monster! She just started training and has been backed and is doing fantastic! She is eating up her training and is very nonchalant about it all. I am SO proud of her! She has had some stifle locking issues so I was worried about starting her, but she is moving and looking great! She has finally started growing into her body and looking much more balanced - although she still has a lot of growing to do.
Pictures and video clip of her 2nd ride, 4th training session:
http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/schwung/Feinesse/
The trainer LOVES her and I am so proud of her![/QUOTE]
She is absolutely gorgeous! Congrats!!!
FYI, mine goes thru stifle issues from time to time as well. Mine is 7 this year so I had hoped that it was partly related to growing and for him gaining some needed hind-end muscle. I would definately keep up with any strengthening exercises that you can do.
Let me know if you decide to sell her!!!
Thanks for the compliments!
It’s funny how they all seem to hate bugs! I’m thinking maybe I should record the sound of a horsefly and hit the “play” button right when he starts to trot the triangle… :lol:
Schwung - beautiful mare! Keep up the great work.
Thanks everyone! She’s been a really awkward filly and her movement has been awful most of her life so she is finally blooming into something.
FullCircle - my girl was also VERY lazy. She didn’t play much, and trying to get her to move when she didn’t want to was almost impossible. This was why I worried so much about her, that and she didn’t like to trot, and her canter was very downhill and awkward (and it didn’t help that she was almost always way butt-high). I am actually surprised how quickly she came around for the trainer and moves forward willingly now. Your boy is VERY cute! Zigea, I tried to look at your pictures but the link didn’t work.
And other brag on my part. Here’s Tessa in her 8th training session (5th time under saddle), off the lunge, trotting and cantering:
http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/schwung/Feinesse/?action=view¤t=DobbinandTessa112.flv
she’s coming along beautifully!
Hey! Do you guys remember when FS first came to the U.S. and there were all those posts about “Beware. FS foals are HOT and difficult! They are professionals only horses!”???
Well that turned out to be total bunk, didn’t it!
I just came in from a lovely ride on my 6 y/o homebred FS daughter. As I have stated before, she just looks wonderful with my trainer riding her but she is also very good about packing my AA 55+ body around the ring. My trainer told me last week that we couldn’t have bought a more perfect horse for me. 
My trainer told me last week that we couldn’t have bought a more perfect horse for me.
Well, that is just ubercool! What a wonderful comment about your homebred, and what a great success story.
My FS girl hauls my FAT (BUT SHRINKING) behind around the desert, even after a 2 month -no ride- period. Head down, on the buckle. Very sweet! So, that hot status was bull. She is sensitive and wants to be perfect, if corrected she “worries”, but is not hot.
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she’s coming along beautifully!
Hey! Do you guys remember when FS first came to the U.S. and there were all those posts about “Beware. FS foals are HOT and difficult! They are professionals only horses!”???
Well that turned out to be total bunk, didn’t it![/QUOTE]
I can’t tell you how many times I heard that, and I don’t even know from where. That was my only reservation about buying a FS colt - I can handle “nasty” horses, but my partner is scared to death, so I wanted a foal that she would be comfortable around, too.
Glad I didn’t listen to the rumor. My guy is so easy. Sounds like they all are.
Well, I am not entirely sure that my mare will ever be “easy”. She is extremely smart, she is opinionated, and she has no problem fighting with you and doesn’t back down easily. She is handling her training extremely well - if I think about it, this shouldn’t surprise me much, she is fearless, confident, and very, very smart. And so far, when she says “NO”, she hasn’t said it very loudly, but I have seen it before and know she is capable of it. She can be a witch in her stall or with other horses. You still have to watch the hind legs when you are grooming her and the teeth when she is loose. But she’s also very sweet too.
However, I recently learned her mother was “quite a handful” as a youngster. She was also very alpha and opinionated but she really turned into a lovely, cooperative mare that LOVED to work and loved attention. So it might not be the FS side of her. However, someone once pointed out to me that in FS’s stallion video, there is a sequence of him being ridden under saddle and at the end of it the camera zoomed in on his head, and he has a very sullen look on his face. THAT is EXACTLY how my filly looks a lot of the time!
I love hearing all the stories of how nice these FS babies turned out all grown up!
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Well, that is just ubercool! What a wonderful comment about your homebred, and what a great success story.[/QUOTE]
Tee-hee, the funny thing is that I had this mare for sale all along, up until last summer. I kept turning down buyers, though, because I felt it wasn’t a good match. Guess her best match is ME! :lol:
