Horse owners/ riders: Your horse's Bio

[Suki Wingy]

I know we've done stuff like this before but there are a lot of new members.
If you don't have a horse of your own, do the one you ride.
Copy and paste this and fill it out

Name:
Age:
Breed:
Height:
Color:
Markings:
Dicipline:
Favorites:
Dislikes:
How I met my horse:
Do you own him?:
Have you gone to any shows together?:
Favorite picture:

[Suki Wingy]

Name: Solo
Age: about 20 years
Breed: Thoroughbred
Height: about 15.3 hh
Color: Dark Bay
Markings: Minimal white on legs, tiny star
Dicipline: Hunter/ Equitation
Favorites:Marshmellows, neck pats, jumping
Dislikes:bending on turns, leting horses pass him, girth
How I met my horse:He's the only jumper available for me to ride at the barn I'm currently at. He's a little short hor me, my heels hand off!
Do you own him?:Nope, he's a lesson horse
Have you gone to any shows together?:No but we might do a schooling show in the summer
Favorite picture: The video on my newest blog (www.myspace.com/irridescent47), pics are in my film for class still.

[Miss Z]

Hmmm, there's a fair few, but I'll choose my favie :D

Name: Dennis
Age: 23 years, I think
Breed: Cob x pleasure horse
Height: 16hh
Color: Very dark bay
Markings: Nothing except the tiniest smudge of a white star on his forehead
Dicipline: Just a lovely, comfy hack:D
Favorites: Pats, hugs, making you frustrated when he has a 'lazy day':p
Dislikes: Being tacked up, being ignored, the lunge whip
How I met my horse: He's been at my riding school ever since I began
Do you own him?: Sadly, no.
Have you gone to any shows together?: No, unless there's a class for complete plod. LOL!
Favorite picture: Funnily enough, I don't have any pics of him. I've got pics with him in the background, but not of him. I'll have to get some.

Eva, Solo is lovely. I love thoroughbreds. Very sadly, the thoroughbred who I was riding dressage on was put down a couple of weeks ago. He was a brilliant horse and now there isn't really another horse in the stables who is as good at dressage as he was.:(

[critter crazy]

Name:Cocoa
Age:10
Breed:American Saddlebred
Height:16 hands
Color:Bay
Markings:Star, two rear socks
Dicipline: Trail Horse
Favorites: Grooming, Eating, Rolling
Dislikes: Being on her own, Lunging
How I met my horse: Found from friend who rescued her from Auction
Do you own him?: Yes
Have you gone to any shows together?:no
Favorite picture:
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c131/mjones77/86a5b0d1.jpg

[critter crazy]

Name:Zoey
Age: 11 Months
Breed: Appy/paint mix ?
Height: 13.2
Color: Bay
Markings: one rear sock
Dicipline: nothing yet
Favorites: Snacks, grooming, kisses
Dislikes: being alone, being stalled
How I met my horse: went to look at another horse, and saw her! loose, underweight and sick
Do you own him?: Yes
Have you gone to any shows together?:no
Favorite picture:
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c131/mjones77/2006_0103horses0024.jpg

[critter crazy]

Name: Alkris
Age: 16
Breed: Thoroughbred
Height: 16.2
Color: Bay
Markings: star
Dicipline: Trail riding
Favorites: grooming, baths, snacks
Dislikes: being alone, dogs
How I met my horse: found her online
Do you own him?:Yes
Have you gone to any shows together?:no
Favorite picture:
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c131/mjones77/29b97c62.jpg

[buttercup132]

Name: Trigger
Age:6
Breed:Halflinger
Height:14 hands
Color:palamino
Markings:blaze
Dicipline:jumps, english
Favorites:ANY food, green tea
Dislikes:being alone, getting a bath
How I met my horse: a ad
Do you own him?:co-own
Have you gone to any shows together?:no I wish
Favorite picture:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v713/rockee12331/Trigger/trigggg5.jpg

[HollandLoppy89]

Name: P.J. (Pride & Joy)
Age: 6
Breed: Haflinger/QH mix
Height:barely a pony... has horsey strides!
Color: chestnut
Markings: a backwards question mark :]
Dicipline: jumping, english pleasure, dressage
Favorites: jumping!
Dislikes: loud noises
How I met my horse: my barn had just saved him from an abusive family and I warmed him up to human hands.
Do you own him?: Lease
Have you gone to any shows together?: one next weekend and this summer I am showing him.
Favorite picture:
*check attachments!

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

Name: Jessie
Age: 21
Breed: Arabian X Thoroughbred
Height: 14.0 (I think, I can't quite remember at the moment)
Color: Palomino (dark)
Markings: Star & a snip on her face
Dicipline: English, jumping
Favorites: Grooming, hose/water, being with people, carrots
Dislikes: Being left alone, cats
How I met my horse: A friend of my mom's owns her and 3 other horses
Do you own her?: No
Have you gone to any shows together?: No
Favorite picture: Only have film pictures, I haven't taken any with my digital.

[Suki Wingy]

bump :) did you mean to type 14.0 Devan? :p

[Tralee]

Name: Tralee
Age: 19
Breed:Trakehner
Height: 15'3
Color:Chestnut
Markings:none
Dicipline: Dressage
Favorites:Treats
Dislikes:long lining
How I met my horse:Saw an add on equine.com
Do you own him?:yes
Have you gone to any shows together?: yes
Favorite picture:
will post later

[countrycowgirl]

Name: Tornado
Age: 5
Breed:Quarter Horse
Height:15.0
Color: blood bay
Markings:very small star
Dicipline: barrel racing and pleasure
Favorites:Treats, loving, riding at new places
Dislikes:sometimes the water hose
How I met my horse:rescued him from a place an hour from me that had alot of horses they were selling because they were moving and they were starving them =(
Do you own him?:yes
Have you gone to any shows together?: yes
Favorite picture:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/countrycowgirl/sigs/100_7035.jpg

[countrycowgirl]

Name: Sugar
Age: 12
Breed:not sure
Height:14.5
Color:sorral
Markings:star blaze and snip...and one white sock
Dicipline:she use to barrel racing now she does pleasure
Favorites:Treats, loving, and being turned out in the pasture oh and feeding time lol
Dislikes:the girth on a saddle
How I met my horse:she was a birthday present for me when I waws in the 1st grade ...I went to look at her and it was love at first sight the guy asked me how much I had saved up and I replied 200 dollars he said sold =)
Do you own him?:yes
Have you gone to any shows together?: yes
Favorite picture:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/countrycowgirl/47eb99eb.jpg

[Toby's my baby]

Beautiful pictures everybody!! :) I didn't realize there were so many people with horses! :)

Name: Austin
Age: 11
Breed: Quarter Horse
Height: 14.3hh
Color: Black
Markings: Star
Dicipline: Gaming (barrel racing, key hole, pole bending/ weaving, back alley jumping) Western Pleasure, Trail (class), Showmanship/ Halter
Favorites: Barrel Racing
Dislikes: Being without his best buddy of course!
How I met my horse: Saw an ad in the paper, and crossed it out, but decided to call anyways, nad we drove 3 hours and found this ugly, hairy, fat horse, and I fell in love! :p
Do you own him?: Yes
Have you gone to any shows together?: Yes, TONS, he got Grand Champion at his first ever horse show, and his first show wasn't even a one day show, it was a four day show, I'm very proud of him! :D
Favorite picture:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/Tobysmybaby/Austin1re.jpg

[Tralee]

Here is a picture of my girl
http://i1.tinypic.com/xkynnq.jpg

[chrissycat21]

I love seeing and reading about everyone's horses!

If I can find a horse I'm going to lease this summer, so if I do I'll add his/her bio to the thread.

[dab_20]

Name: Painted Dreamer
Age: 2 yrs
Breed: ?? pony
Height: probably about 10 hh
Color: tri color paint
Markings: snip, star, socks, blue and brown eyes
Dicipline: hopefully driving
Favorites: carrots! And she likes cows. lol
Dislikes: loud noises, sudden movements
How I met my horse: We rescued her from an auction. She was probably abused, she is still frightened of people.
Do you own him?: yes
Have you gone to any shows together?: no
Favorite picture:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a22/dab_20/1d503b0a.jpg

[Suki Wingy]

Everyone has beautiful horses! Chrissy, that sounds great!
I might fill out the bio for my old horse that I used to shareboard later.

[cocker_luva]

Name: Quigley
Age: Unknown
Breed: Thoroughbred/Quarter Horse
Height: Unknown
Color: Liver Chestnut
Markings: Star, stripe, snip on face. Sock on back hoof.
Dicipline: Jumping and flat
Favorites: Being outside
Dislikes: girth (he's got a BIG one.)
How I met my horse: through the stables i ride at
Do you own him?: nope
Have you gone to any shows together?: not yet
Favorite picture: http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid107/pb184eb9724d0ac174421ad93fa58c837/f961a3d0.jpg

[chrissycat21]

Well, it's pretty official, I should be starting my lease on Thursday!!! I'll edit the rest of the info in as I learn more about him. For now, I don't have a picture but I'll hopefully have one soon!

Name: Garth
Age: 7 years
Breed: Quarter Horse
Height: About 15 hands
Color: Chestnut
Markings: Stripe and three 'freckles' on his side
Dicipline: English, I *think* he does hunter jumping
Favorites: Food! (He is *such* a pig!) and jumping
Dislikes: Missing a meal...Especially if he is missing the meal because I'm riding him.
How I met my horse: I've seen him at the stables before, but I met him when I tried him out to see if I wanted to lease him or not.
Do you own him?: Nope, I'm leasing him for the summer
Have you gone to any shows together?: Not yet, but his owner said I am free to take him to any shows I'd like!
Favorite picture: My favorite pic of him is attached. :)

[dab_20]

I enjoy reading about everyone's horses. Anyone else?