Where my Arabian peeps at?

[Sandy_M]

[QUOTE=californianinkansas;7480417]
I’m not brave enough to have an Arab x Appaloosa cross.[/QUOTE]

Just think, I was 62 when I bought mine as an unstarted 2.5 year old. 7 years, one strained MCL (his) and one broken arm (mine) later and we’re showing 2nd level, but um…it’s been an adventure. He is indeed the “girl with a little curl,” and he improves all the time, AND he is a sweetheart in personality…but someone swept the aisle as I went by and he bucked the length of the arena and dumped me. A week later, he scored 65.968% at a show.

[Finding_Serenity]

5 that’s strange, it worked for me!

And ooh you breed them! do you have website/photos?

We had our fun show today. First day off the farm since halloween. He was so much better than last time but we still have a long way to go! So many gorgeous upper level lateral movements by him though :lol:

Hope to have pictures once they are posted!

[JJARAB]

Here! been try![](ng to undork my Photobucket account -

Signature JJ, 1998 chestnut gelding:

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[AmarachAcres]

All the pretty horses…

[twotrudoc]

[QUOTE=Stushica;7491920]
PS. Do I have to have approval to join the clique?

Gretch is a 10+ in her snort and blow technique :)[/QUOTE]

YES! Gai Parada was a Snort and Blow natural :lol: my good pal had a daughter

[twotrudoc]

Amararch, Heritage is at Monroe this weekend,also April 12 and 13 is the Arabian Sport Horse Celebration at the Elma, WA Fairgrounds. Stop by! PRAHA is putting it on, they are a FUN group (and you can meet my favorite Heathen horse!).

[twotrudoc]

Pics from the Northwest Heritage Arabian Horse Show 2014–

https://www.facebook.com/knotted.pony/media_set?set=a.747274898639567.1073741829.100000711918292&type=1

(public profile) and yes it really was that nasty wet and rainy!

[californianinkansas]

[QUOTE=Stushica;7491920]
PS. Do I have to have approval to join the clique?

Gretch is a 10+ in her snort and blow technique :)[/QUOTE]

Of course! Welcome to the clique!

Your lovely mare and my gelding share lines to Bey Shah and to *Raffon. Cool!
Arlene Magid did a lot of posts about *Raffon this week on her business FaceBook page, posted several historic pics.

I just came back from reading your blog. happy clap It is so good! You have a great writing “voice.” More blog posts, please. And more from Gretchen, too please. Gretchen is a top-quality mare. I love her star. squee

Best,
Amber

[californianinkansas]

[QUOTE=Sandy M;7492260]
Just think, I was 62 when I bought mine as an unstarted 2.5 year old. 7 years, one strained MCL (his) and one broken arm (mine) later and we’re showing 2nd level, but um…it’s been an adventure. He is indeed the “girl with a little curl,” and he improves all the time, AND he is a sweetheart in personality…but someone swept the aisle as I went by and he bucked the length of the arena and dumped me. A week later, he scored 65.968% at a show.[/QUOTE]

He sounds awesome! Pics please?

[californianinkansas]

[QUOTE=twotrudoc;7504218]
Pics from the Northwest Heritage Arabian Horse Show 2014–

https://www.facebook.com/knotted.pony/media_set?set=a.747274898639567.1073741829.100000711918292&type=1

(public profile) and yes it really was that nasty wet and rainy![/QUOTE]

Wow! Did it rain that much the entire time? It looks like everyone had a great time. So many outstanding horses in the photos!

[Lauruffian]

I have to show off a pic of my crazy Ay-rab from the other day.

One way to know you’ve got a good horse: Take him out on a cool morning (1) and ride him for the first time in well over a week (2) without lunging first (3). (To be fair, he was let out to graze for 45min first.) Ride him around the property with a hot, excited horse galloping in one ring (4), sprinklers on in the ring behind him (5), a tractor dragging the ring in front of him (6), and a trash truck noisily emptying the dumpsters around the property (7)-- you can see it beyond the tractor.

With some horses, this would be foolish, but it speaks of my trust in him and our partnership that I wasn’t the least concerned. As expected, we had a great ride. The only thing truly distracting him was the horse–Tril wanted to play, too, but alas could not.

I love my smart, confident, goofy boy.

[MyssMyst]

I went to help our barn at the concurrent show this weekend (I’m still skeered to show in a week and a half) and we got rained, hailed, and snowed on. I was NOT amused. Let me tell you, taking a native costume horse from barn to warmup in super windy conditions is NOT fun. Thank you to the sweet mare I was holding for being such a good girl, because she had every reason to be a spooky mess and all she did was snort the entire way, lol.

[Finding_Serenity]

May I join the clique as well? My boy may not be 100% arab… but he has this “Snort and Blow” down… though his is usually a “Snort blow” :lol: he does it (as I posted in the Shaming thread) when he’s: Happy, Nervous, Scared, Proud, Peppermints, Excited, Frustrated, Peppermints… :lol: At some point I want to video him and see just how many times he’ll do it. (just watch he won’t when I have the camera on!)

I’m glad everyone’s shows (despite weather) went well!

[californianinkansas]

[QUOTE=Finding Serenity;7504699]
May I join the clique as well? My boy may not be 100% arab… but he has this “Snort and Blow” down… though his is usually a “Snort blow” :lol: he does it (as I posted in the Shaming thread) when he’s: Happy, Nervous, Scared, Proud, Peppermints, Excited, Frustrated, Peppermints… :lol: At some point I want to video him and see just how many times he’ll do it. (just watch he won’t when I have the camera on!)

I’m glad everyone’s shows (despite weather) went well![/QUOTE]

Of course. Our tent is open to all!

Your post in the shaming thread was hilarious!:lol:

I know that it’s wrong of me from a training perspective, but I think they’re sooooo pretty when they turn on the snort and blow.

Do all y’alls (sorry about the poor grammar -there is no English equivalent of ustedes) horses absolutely have to sniff at great length and/or try to eat anything new (e.g., new tack, lead rope, brush and the like) before they will let it near them?

[californianinkansas]

[QUOTE=MyssMyst;7504673]
I went to help our barn at the concurrent show this weekend (I’m still skeered to show in a week and a half) and we got rained, hailed, and snowed on. I was NOT amused. Let me tell you, taking a native costume horse from barn to warmup in super windy conditions is NOT fun. Thank you to the sweet mare I was holding for being such a good girl, because she had every reason to be a spooky mess and all she did was snort the entire way, lol.[/QUOTE]

You are a very good friend! You are going to do just fine at your upcoming show. You have all of us here for moral support.

[Finding_Serenity]

Yeah. He HAS to see what it is I’m bringing up to him. He’s gotten better with brushes but if I change out or get out the shedding blade he has to inspect it first. Same thing with all whips and crops, when he starts mouthing it I know he’s okay for me to use it (as in he won’t run away in absolute terror)

He’s still terrified of the measuring tape we use for blankets. I managed to get a decently accurate measurement, but he was having none of it. :lol:

[californianinkansas]

[QUOTE=Finding Serenity;7505162]
Yeah. He HAS to see what it is I’m bringing up to him. He’s gotten better with brushes but if I change out or get out the shedding blade he has to inspect it first. Same thing with all whips and crops, when he starts mouthing it I know he’s okay for me to use it (as in he won’t run away in absolute terror)

He’s still terrified of the measuring tape we use for blankets. I managed to get a decently accurate measurement, but he was having none of it. :lol:[/QUOTE]

:lol: Vee was terrified of my cloth sewing measuring tape at first, too. It’s usually constantly windy here, which didn’t help. He gets over it pretty quick once he realizes that he can make the magic clicker go off and dispense a “nummy.”

I discovered that he’d never been blanketed before -that was fun until he got used to the evil Horse Eating Blanket of Death. Vee’s perfectly fine with being blanketed now. Sterling (a.k.a. Fluffy) my grade Arabian gelding still has to sniff his blanket all over before letting me put it on him -every single time.

Vee’s previous owner, bless her dear sweet heart, used to alternately coddle him/was afraid of him. When he turned on the snort-and-blow or spook with her, she soothed him and made a big fuss over him being scared; thus, completely reinforcing the unwanted behavior. headdesk Science is your friend y’all.

[Finding_Serenity]

[QUOTE=californianinkansas;7505626]
:lol: Vee was terrified of my cloth sewing measuring tape at first, too. It’s usually constantly windy here, which didn’t help. He gets over it pretty quick once he realizes that he can make the magic clicker go off and dispense a “nummy.”

I discovered that he’d never been blanketed before -that was fun until he got used to the evil Horse Eating Blanket of Death. Vee’s perfectly fine with being blanketed now. Sterling (a.k.a. Fluffy) my grade Arabian gelding still has to sniff his blanket all over before letting me put it on him -every single time.

Vee’s previous owner, bless her dear sweet heart, used to alternately coddle him/was afraid of him. When he turned on the snort-and-blow or spook with her, she soothed him and made a big fuss over him being scared; thus, completely reinforcing the unwanted behavior. headdesk Science is your friend y’all. ;-)[/QUOTE]

Ashe has never been blanketed either as far as I know. His reaction to his quarter sheet is “Mom there is something on my butt. There is SOMETHING on my BUTT. OMG SOMETHING ON MY BUTT.” I just have to sit through the jigging for a minute or two and then we can continue our warmup/cooldown but it makes me laugh every time.

[JJARAB]

Do all y’alls (sorry about the poor grammar -there is no English equivalent of ustedes) horses absolutely have to sniff at great length and/or try to eat anything new (e.g., new tack, lead rope, brush and the like) before they will let it near them?

Last year they brought in some new jump standards and one day they were stacked in a corner of the ring. My guy kept trying the sideways teleport every time we passed them, so I trotted him in circles several times in both directions then stopped and had him stand right next to them. After a minute or so, he stretched out his neck and LICKED one of the standards. I guess they tasted non threatening, because he stopped spooking at them

[californianinkansas]

[QUOTE=JJARAB;7506202]
Last year they brought in some new jump standards and one day they were stacked in a corner of the ring. My guy kept trying the sideways teleport every time we passed them, so I trotted him in circles several times in both directions then stopped and had him stand right next to them. After a minute or so, he stretched out his neck and LICKED one of the standards. I guess they tasted non threatening, because he stopped spooking at them :)[/QUOTE]

That is hilarious! :lol:

Last Saturday the horses were having a grand time pretend-spooking at my husband’s beloved little red tractor as he was dragging the paddock.

DH parked the tractor and walked off to get something. Vee and Fluffy walk over to investigate. They have been with the tractor many, many times before, but I guess the tractor was different somehow last weekend?

Vee just sniffs the tractor all over, full snort-and-blow as usual. Fluffy calmly walks over to the tractor, licks it, then nonchalantly tries to take a bite out of the top of the hood that covers the motor.:eek: Fluff didn’t leave any noticible scraches to the shiny new paint, thank God. I’m very glad that my DH has mellowed out a lot over the years.