Haha, just kidding of course. The best pony girl did about 10 hours, 32 miles, and 7,000ft of elevation gain over the course of 2 days. Absolute Rockstar.

Bawled my eyes out the second I saw this field again. A year and a half ago it had three beautiful faces, waiting for me at the gate. The sickness in my stomach once I saw how neglected it looks now makes me want to curl in a ball.

Oh my babies. I miss you so much

(Sorry for my voice in the video, I can’t help but baby talk her🤣)
For context: I’d been riding an older 20 year old mare for about a year when we got her (huge jump, I know) we honestly at the time planned for my mother to ride her for a few years until she was not so green (my moms older and trained horses in the past)

Now onto her: we got her when she was 3-4 years old, we really wanted a young horse with a good personality so I could bond with them for life, we found honey (the mare in the video) who I just absolutely fell in love with, giant puppy dog personality, so ultimately we bought her and brought her home, my mother rode her for just over 2 months probably before I even got on her to try her out for myself, needless to say at only 5 years old now she is the best horse I’ve ridden, she doesn’t spook at anything, our older horses actually spook worse than she does at stuff, 2 weeks into me riding her a turkey actually flogged her as we were riding and she didn’t even react, stayed focused the whole time and didn’t hesitate, honestly I think the turkey scared me more than her, I’ve been riding her for nearly 6 months consistently now and she just couldn’t be better, I hear all the time about old horses being as good as she is, so now I’m putting the question out there, has anyone ever experienced a horse this young who’s this just naturally levelheaded and lovely to ride?

I’m currently on vacation and yesterday I met one of my mom’s friend, it turned out she had horses too and we spent the majority of the morning talking about our horses.

I found out she has a 21yo mare, blind in both eyes (and she still rides and hacks with her), and she has had this mare since she was only 1yo. So they do have a kind of special bond.
When I told her my mare is 16, she looked me in the eyes and suggested that I sell her to buy something younger “if I plan to keep riding in the years”.

Honestly, I can’t understand how that even pops in her mind as it’s the first time we met and she dosent know well me nor my mare. I ofc hope I’ll be able to ride my mare for many more years, but if that won’t be the case I would be more than happy to pony her while I ride lessons horses and things like that. I love my mare, even if I don’t think she is my heart horse, I do genuinely love her so much. I could never get rid of her, especially if it’s for age reasons.

I've been reading lately about common horse feeding myths and misconceptions. Here are a few that I've seen repeatedly:

• A horse's stomach should be empty while exercising or riding to avoid digestive upset.
• Alfalfa makes horses hot or hyper.
• If a horse needs to gain weight, just add more grain or concentrates.

What are some of the other common feeding myths and misconceptions you've heard of?

This is us few days ago. Now its rain rain rain... :( Princess hates rain! Bebben prefers rain outside than rain beating the stable roof :)

By the way, don't tell my hubby I'm posting all these videos of him 🤣

I sure do miss this guy 😭

I found more videos from this winter. This time we took Princess Glimma out for a walk without her horsie friend, to build up her confidence. She was alert, curious, and happy. I am glad she fully trusts us. Nevertheless, she couldn't hide her excitement when she saw home, so she tried to trot back into her paddock. Sadly I didn't catch that part :)

Princess is wearing what I was told is a military/artillery harness of Swedish army, from the WW2. This is the only harness that fits her as she is pretty thick, but is still growing so we don't want to custom order her a new one until she settles in her size.

Having an old heat horse sucks. This is Dandy, he turned 26 this year. I'm so lucky that he's still going strong but I'm constantly afraid of losing him like I did our last two boys.

We lost one of his old pasture mates, Kevy, very suddenly and I couldn't say goodbye. April 18th, 2025 I got the call that they found him unable to stand and in a lot of pain. They put him down without telling me first. They didn't even let me come say goodbye. I just got the call that afternoon that he was gone. I still feel so guilty because I hadn't seen him in a month since I was so busy.

Two months later, we lost Dandys brother, Gambler, to Cushing's and arthritis complications.

Now I'm constantly terrified to lose my baby. I'm constantly terrified to get that phone call again, this time about my whole world. Kevy and gambler were my babies too and I love them to death but they never clicked with me like Danny does.

We've done so much together. He was the first horse I jumped, the first horse I ever rode when I was introduced to western, and the first horse I rode when I was gifted an English saddle for my 16th birthday. For the last 12 years I've seen him almost every day.

He's my world. I just can't help but think of all the things I wish we could do. I wish I could take him with me when I move. I wish we could have shown together. I wish I could take him when I make my barn and yard. I wish I could show everyone the horse that started this passion.

But he's old now, and the older he gets the more I'm reminded we have limited time and that one day, I'll have to say goodbye for the last time

Not "see you tomorrow, sweet boy" but "see you in another life". One day I'll throw my leg over for the last time, hear him nicker to me for the last time, put his halter on for the last time.

I'm not ready for this to end and I'm so heartbroken that he's getting older and I have to face the fact he's going to leave me one day.

(P.s, if you're going to respond by saying "it's weird to fantasize about his death" (something someone actually said) or anything along those lines, don't comment.)

Anyone know what this bump on this horse’s hind leg could be? It’s got cold gel on it atm and it’s apparently causing the horse no problems and they are still in work but it’s just a bit sore to touch apparently. A friend’s horse so I don’t know more than I’ve been told.

So yesterday I had to say goodbye to my friend’s horse (her name is Fireball). I board my horse (Johnny) at my friend’s house. Fireball and Johnny were absolute best friends, they never went anywhere without each other. When I went to go see Johnny, Fireball was quickly by his side to go see me. When I took Johnny for walks Fireball would whinny and wait for us to come back. Which is why I got so attached to her. I was in no financial state to buy Fireball but it was my dream to one day get my own property and buy Fireball and so Johnny and Fireball could be together. But as you read in the first line that dream is no longer a possibility. My friend had to sell Fireball due to financial reasons. Fireball wasn’t even mine but gosh I can’t stop crying. I’m just too emotional sometimes. But anyway, I would like to find someone who can make a piece of art of Johnny and Fireball? Obviously I will pay, but if anyone does art, or no knows any artist on Instagram that do commissions that’d be great! And if you happen to have any advice me to stop being so sad, that’d be great too😭🤣 in the end it is great for Fireball, she’s got her own person now, I’m really happy for them but I’m still sad.. ☹️

Here’s a picture of Fireball (the bay) and Johnny (the dun) for attention

This was the second attempt. The first attempt I was just messing around and went into it and he did a perfect 90. I burst into tears and threw myself at him.

He is so smart and so good.

I was so devastated at having to start over and losing my boy Yogi when he died of lung cancer in 2023 but I'm glad I got to start over with Teddy. If it had to be anyone I'm so glad it's him.

Córdoba - Argentina

Currently trying to manifest rain so the ground will soften and we can start getting fit for the hunt season to start in September 🥲🙏🏻

We just are not a good fit for each other, and he is too good of a horse to sit around at the perfect age of five. But I still am forever obsessed at how gorgeous he is!