Another excuse to show off some of the beautiful TBs who have graced our lives!
Here’s my best friend, whom I’ve had for 15 years. Got him a couple weeks after his last race.
I added his pedigree in post 12. Please feel free to add yours!
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My goofball. Got him off the track six years ago this April, a week shy of his third birthday (he’ll be nine in May of this year). It feels like it’s been about fifteen seconds since then, lol.
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My best girl; I got her as a four-year-old, a couple months after her last race. She’ll be sixteen in two weeks.
She’s often the stereotype of why some people say they won’t buy a thoroughbred mare. 
Spooky, sassy, ear pinning, bites, kicks, has actually lunged at children on two occasions. But she has so much heart and is such a joy to ride.
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Not the eating the children 
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Dark bay with a right hind sock! 
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They are all beautiful, I love Thoroughbreds.
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Oh, I want to play!
Current ponies
and…
A few former ponies…
I’ve had a LOT of tbs. They are all very different from each other in personality and body styles and ways of going. I loved them all!
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That could be about me.
I love a TB that takes a 56’ girth!
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What is his breeding, if you don’t mind sharing?
I’d love to know the breeding of everyone’s horses shown here.
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Good idea! I’ll add that to the OP.
He’s a Slew!
Not a big money winner. But priceless to me.
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I have had three TBs in my life, none currently although I still have the daughter (an ISH) of the mare shown in the picture with the dog on her back. All so athletic and such triers, and all gorgeous. I do miss them quite a bit.
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I wish I had pictures of mine! I’ve got a few crummy pix. But I remember everything about them. They way they looked, their heart, the fun times galloping on trails, beaches, pastures 
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Would you share her breeding here?
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I have always loved thoroughbreds - which is great because I could never afford anything else anyway .
My first show horse Joe Cool - I got him when he was 17 years old and he took me from 2 ft to 3 ft and was still happily (and sound) showing at 3 ft when I sold him before heading to college when he was ~21 years old. He was built a bit like a dairy cow and his natural head carriage resembled a giraffe but he was the most honest horse around. Not only did he NEVER stop, he somehow always managed to get us out of any stupid situation I put us in in one piece and without so much as a tail flick. He had his quirks (severe stall walker - I still feel bad that I couldn’t give him 24/7 turnout) and weaver. He also refused to pee anywhere except a stall or trailer - we had a few interesting shows before we figured that one out .
And my current OTTB “Shank” who turns six in a few days. He was given to me by a pro friend of mine who got him started off the track. He was supposed to be a sale horse for her but he is a little…quirky (or, as she called him “an unsellable psychopath” 
). I am having so much fun with him, he is super athletic and just my type of ride. He is also a total menace 24/7 and his behavior is somewhere between a puppy in that really annoying teething and biting stage and a toddler. He lives outside 24/7 with my 6 year old Mustang gelding and they play all day every day. Hoping to get to him at least a few schooling shows this year and I am laughing just thinking about all the ways he will embarrass me.
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A four year old OTTB we were retraining as hunter, lovely and handsome.
We did show in a few schooling shows and he did well, hunted with him with the local hunt and were also galloping in case whoever bought him wanted to go back to the track or to steeplechase.
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Here are some I’ve riddenover the years:
Freeman (Unnamed foal by Swear By Dixie out of Sold the Yacht)
Passing (by Perfecting out of Pas Seul)
Shootmetothemoon (by Malibu Moon out of Lights On) And Miles to Go (by Yarrow Brae out of Firstafterthebreak)
Tizbreezy (by Tiznow out of Westerly Breeze)
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Ooh, flashy!
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