I need to know where you got these pads. For a friend. Yeah that’s it.
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Ima need to get on this toot sweet.
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Full TB bred up the wazoo to race. Couldn’t have outrun the starting gate with a head start. Laziest guy on the planet, but he is 17.3+ so I give him a break since it’s hard to get all the parts going in the same direction. Took kids from 2’6” to 3’6” and never batted an eye. Get tons of comments about what a nice warmblood he is…
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Since we’re sharing photos and I love a good TB, here’s me with an OTTB project who went on to be very successful on a local hunter circuit after he left me (who is very much not a hunter rider!):
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Darn it all! I’m trying to link to the TB dressage page and my browser is giving me major security warnings. I switched browsers and Safari says it can’t open the page.
I’ve tried to go from your link and from the one in a search engine. No such luck.
Oh my! I thought you guys were jumping the board fence 
But no, he’s just an over achiever 
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I’ve told my favorite story about my BG grandson more than once on this board, so please keep scrolling if you’ve seen it before.
My southern New Mexico landlady’s parents gave me this scruffy 9 y.o. gelding who’d been living with their TB broodmare/baby herd plus a zillion Black Angus cattle his whole life. Though Joe’d had 45 cowboy days of training, they were six years before I met him and no one had put a saddle on him, trimmed his feet, or checked his teeth since. I took this picture the day after he arrived.
Seven months later, I had moved to my childhood home in California to teach at a local prep school. One of the women who worked in the school’s equestrian department and I became good friends almost immediately. She’d been married to a man whose family owned a stallion one or two generations from BG, so she knew the line well. She took one look at Joe and said, “So he’s a Blushing Groom baby…” At this point I had no idea who BG was other than his name on a pedigree, and said, yes, and how did you know?
My friend pointed to his front feet and explained that Blushing Groom was a winning turf horse and his babies almost always have big bodies, huge hearth girths, and slightly turned in front feet.
I’ve since read Blushing Groom described as a French Heavy, wide-bodied TBs bred for their endurance and/or steeplechase abilities.
Though I’ve been too old and chicken to seriously jump him, I’ve always thought that he’d eat up a x-c course and has a mostly quiet temperament so could’ve been happy in hunters, too. Though he’s not a big fan of dressage, it’s what I know best. Once we’re both sufficiently warmed up, he’s 17, and I’m 65, so that takes a minute or 20, we can both start feeling pretty good.
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@sami-joe. I’ve just tried and I can’t link to it now. There is a Facebook page too. The trainer is named Louise Robson. I’ll try again later.
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This is the only pic I can find of my BG granddaughter. She had a huge gallop with so much suspension I had to wear breeches even when trail riding, jeans created holes on the inside of my knees. Her trot was the same, big with suspension and her walk had lots of over step. And she naturally marched everywhere. 
Wasn’t afraid of anything, I mean zero spook. 17h and 1350 to 1500 lbs, depending on condition. The dressage trainer at our barn told me to switch from hunters because of her gaits, even though it was hard to package her. I did switch but that was due to the injuries she sustained during race training. I mean really, she was at least 16.2 and 1200 lbs as a long yearling. She needed time to mature. Oh well, that just meant I got her cheap.
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I hope the picture opens. If not I’ll try again.
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No….thx for checking.
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She’s lovely.
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Oh my, that shoulder. 
And her eye is soft and wise. What year was she born?
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- She had such a soft personality in contrast to her size. So sweet, and she gave mare hugs.
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Cannot resist posting this picture of my TB Joe that a friend took the day before yesterday.
Why not a TB, indeed?
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I have bought a TB but with the plan of selling it within a year of buying. If I was looking for something to hang onto for a medium length of time I would not buy a TB because oftentimes even when they have show miles and have proven to be sound and quiet and talented you can not get much more for them compared to when they were right off the track. If I was looking to buy my next “forever” horse to have fun with I would be open to a TB if it was the right match.
Late to the party with the picture sharing, but here’s my TB with my trainer at our local schooling series earlier this summer. This was only his third time showing over fences, first time in the 2’. He went in and marched around 2 little courses despite having no schooling over fences or ever setting foot in that arena prior. Ended up pinning 3rd and 4th over fences and 3rd on the flat with 10 in the open division.
Are we ever going to run with the big dogs at the rated shows? Nope. Does it seem like he’ll make up to be a fun ride and decently competitive on our local hunter circuit? I think so, and that’s all my budget-constrained ammy self really wants anyway.
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