Love the beach photo and Griffith Park mention.
Also see that your guy had Raja Baba on his dam’s side. I had a fondness for that stallion.
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That’s so fun to hear. It was pre-internet age so I had no way of digging into the nuances of his pedigree like you can do today. Beyond Bold Ruler I was completely clueless about any of his ancestors and just assumed they were random TBs of no particular notoriety, but now I see Raja Baba has a whole Wikipedia page! Thank you for the heads up on him!
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Besides the gorgeous horses and their pedigrees I’m loving all the great riding pix. Damn you kids are sharp!!!
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@chestnuthuntergelding your horse is a better jumper than mine was, but his head, neck, and expression remind me completely of my guy’s.
Something interesting about all these photos is that probably half of them are horses that people would probably say “doesn’t look like a TB” about. I think the general public’s view of what a TB in the hunter/jumper show world looks like may be skewed by directly off the track horses
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I’ll add my old man too, RIP. He passed in 2020, strangulating lipoma. He was the perfect beginner, all-arounder dude, and the first horse I jumped 4’3’’ with. I got him in 2005 or so, so all my riding pictures of him are pretty blurry from old camera phones. 17hh but narrow-bodied
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What a trot!
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Mine also had a pretty impressive glow up. First pic was the week I bought him and the second pic was less than a year later.
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There is no contest here - these horses are all just BEAUTIFUL!!
Leo came into my life because he was what I could afford. When I tried him, he actually kind of scared me but trainer assured me she would work with him and we’d be fine. And we were! Until she moved to a different state shortly after I got him.
Full TB, never raced/no tattoo but I was told when I bought him that his sire was a sporthorse TB stallion named Door Hanger.
From his his hunter days:
And then from his learning dressage days - it turned out that my dear friend (riding) was his human soulmate so I was happy to share him!
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No pics, but when I was working for a BNT we had a lovely and accomplished Jr/AA warmblood for sale. Pretty shocking when they found her tattoo during the PPE 
ETA: BNT was more shocked than the potential buyer; this was not intentional misrepresentation.
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Ooh, love this thread! My TB and one of my heart horses. JC Rocket Away, by Cape Canaveral out of Blue Lagoon. Unfortunately, euthanized at 10 in 2015 due to soundness issue we just couldn’t fix 
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And I forgot this one was TB. I didn’t own him but he and I were quite a team in college. By Wood Magic, a full brother to Castle Magic if I remember correctly
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Your pix show exactly what a tb can look like with a proper diet and correct riding. When I hear someone say “weedy” I think, huh that horse needs to go to my old trainer. She did glow up before glow up was cool. (heeheehee country song reference Barbara Mandrel)
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Groshawk and Sir Ivor! You had royalty there.
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“Hmm. Bien Super. How’d he get that name?” 
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Okay, I will add a few more. 
They are like Lay’s potato chips…you can never have enough!
Some of my oldies.
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Exactly!
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I’ll always participate in a photo share!
This is my 10 year old mare that I bought in 2020 (I call her my Covid Crisis purchase ). She is all the best and worst of an OTTB in one (hard keeper, crappy feet, ulcer prone; but also so kind, forgiving, athletic, and the biggest heart.
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I heard someone say one time “every person in this barn thinks they have the best horse, and they’re all correct”.
These horses are all beautiful on their own, made more so by the obvious love of the people sharing them.
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