I think getting that pony was a BIG mistake!!! 
Almost 69 and this year I got my pony - 2 days before Christmas. Yup, adopted a 13.2 Haflinger, ostensibly to be a project, resale…but I’m smitten. You obviously got the pony ~GRINS~
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Um… really really really awesome!
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She is absolutely adorable and you are doing an excellent job with her! Congrats!
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She is cute. Who do you hunt with?
I’m not a member anywhere (yet?) but I’ve been capping with Potomac. 
Sounds fun. I cap with a local hunt occasionally too. I have only made it out once this year. Weather sucks
So what’s her name? Love pony, she’s totes adorbs!
I don’t even jump and I want that pony!!! She’s adorable.
Congratulations! Glad you got the pony and can have fun with her! I have three mares and while I am the minority, I love working with mares. I call my little herd Estrofest on the Hill (a TB and two naughty minis) - stems from the fact in my first marriage I had two sons, a male Lab and the ex husband so I balanced the testosterone in my life with mares. Cannot wait to see how she goes for you.
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Spring is coming and I’m having bad thoughts about breeding this pony. (I’ve been drooling over the Welsh cob stallion North Forks Cardi, specifically.) To be honest, as much as I enjoy her I’m not sure she’s “nice enough” to breed. I know you guys aren’t enablers about breeding like you are about buying so somebody talk me out of it please!
Omg, Cardi would be awesome. I don’t think that’s crazy at all. I might also suggest R.Blue Moon, oversized connemara stallion. And I just got my 13.3 hh doppelgänger of your pony. With their same purple coats, they really do look like the same pony!
Libby,
I will partially enable you and say it depends on what you want out of the breeding. Your pony is lovely, correct, decent mover, excellent jumper and has an incredible attitude/work ethic.
What she is not is purebred or a type-y show pony, which is where the $$$ in ponies are.
So if your expectations for breeding are to have a good athlete with a good mind, you have no delusions about this being a money making proposition AND you can keep said pony til it’s a salable age (realistically, five) I’d say find a really good pony stallion and go for it.
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Just stopping to say your pony is really very cool! I don’t have breeding advice, but I do have a friend with a Cardi baby (now a 7-year-old mare) and she is lovely. Extremely willing and nice moving, athletic, and cute as can be.
Mmmm…Cardi! I’ve had the pleasure of boarding with him and he’s just a lovely type. Great brain, kind and a generous ride according to those who’ve ridden him. Jessica Wisdom brought him up the levels and did so many fun things along the way. He’s got a good jump and he’s been around a cross country course a few times as well. His babies are numerous and out of both horses and ponies. Another eventer locally bred a very nice oldenburg mare to him and the baby is WOW!
Your mare is super cute–Cardi would put a bit of heft on the baby, but at 14.3, not a ton of height. But…pony power!! What a dressage and eventing star that combination would be!!
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Too bad you’re not in Europe where pony eventing is a big thing; I’d think she would be worth her weight in gold over there–at least from the photos.
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I’ve had the exact same thought! Pony jumpers are bigger over there too. She could be a fancy “import.” :lol:
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If she is only 13.2 then she could only event affiliated at 80 and 90 level. She could show jump as a 138 though
She’s amazing! You’ll have no trouble selling. Is she hot or just speedy?
That stadium, jumping photo…WOW.
