Finally got photos up!!!

So, Rabbit, is it just some sort of weird coincidence that here we are, with the world between us (literally! LOL), and we both have a Princess and a Rio??? Or is there some sort of family connection of which I am unaware??? :laugh1 :laugh1

Diane

Those are great photos Rabbit did you take them? Your foals are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.

Gorgeous foals - love that filly she has great expression.
Glad to see you finally shared some pics of your gorgeous horses. Hope the rest of your foaling goes safely.

Oh, what adorable foals, RF...and wonderful pixs of your "babies". Minis are so cute... :love

I cannot pretend I took the pictures!!
A friend of mine took them and he has all the bells and whistles on his camera!
He got a lot of pictures of noses, though until he got wise to standing in one filed and taking pictures of the horses in the next one with a telephoto lens.
Diane that is weird, isn't it?? I just let my foals name themselves, though, and Fancy is "Fancy That" and Rio is "Rio Zorro"

So, what patterns would you call DC...sire is Bay base Snowcap Pintaloosa, Dam is chestnut (only reason I sold her, she is lovely!)

They are lovely pics love the red and white filly. Rabbit looks well too !

they are beautiful!! :love how terrible about the 2 you lost :(

They are so cute!!!! :love :bounce

pics are fantastic :!: that filly has a good step in her :D and rabbit looks majestic - have you any more of him

Yey! Pictures from Rabbit. :mrgreen: They all look lovely, and I hope the rest of your foalings go well.

Great photos and wonderful foals, Rabbit!

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Diane that is weird, isn't it?? I just let my foals name themselves, though, and Fancy is "Fancy That" and Rio is "Rio Zorro" [/quote]

Believe it or not, that's pretty much how we do things as well...Casey is about the only one who got his name before his birth, and well, even that fits him (if you know of any Californian surfer-dude types named Casey! :laugh1 ).

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So, what patterns would you call DC...sire is Bay base Snowcap Pintaloosa, Dam is chestnut (only reason I sold her, she is lovely!)[/quote]

At first blush, I would say that he's missed out on any of his sire's pinto genes. That white patch on his shoulder is very reminiscent of one on Newboy and one on Princess, altho' Princess's is a bit more in the shape of a Texas longhorn...that might or might not indicate 'roaning' (i.e., roaning out to spots/white). Princess has roaned, but it looks more like traditional roan in comparison to her brother, who has done the spots/white Lp roaning.

Diane

As far as I can see he has no Pinto white....and he looks very much as if he is going to varnish out, possibly even to Near Leopard as he has dark spots on the brown bits.....
At the moment he is an extended blanket, visually, he has lots of little faults, but I shall run him another year before deciding if I have a potential stallion or a very flashy driving gelding!
He has a very good head for a well marked tiny (27") colt, most of our Spotted Minis have heads like buckets, quite frankly!!

Let's hear it for Rabbits, diplomat extrordinaire.....

I agree his face is very good and he is nice for such a small one, although I do find that minis have nicer appy heads generally than the bigger appy ponies and horses.

Yes, I would agree with that, some of the Spotted Ponies are just.....*[size=85]searches for diplomatic word[/size]*...oh yes....Gross!!!!
In fact most of them are.
Speaking of which have you seen Piano Man??
One of the nicest appy Minis I have seen in a long time...and well patterned too, which is not always so with the AMHA horses...very smart indeed!!!
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Ooh...looky, Diane, you can see the Blanket under the Leopard, just as I was saying!!!! :-bd

Yes I know Piano man very well and it's a good job that he doesn't take after his sire is all I can say - he's stunning but....... can't say on here. Crittercreek have some lovely stallions Texas spotty is nice too.

Will that black and white spotted varnish out or will he stay that wild color? He's awesome!

I suspect due to his age that he will stay that colour now....his Sire has kept his colouring - Alliance Sign on the Dotted Line.

[quote="rabbitsfizz"]At the moment he is an extended blanket, visually, he has lots of little faults, but I shall run him another year before deciding if I have a potential stallion or a very flashy driving gelding!
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He's very well refined for what I'm used to seeing as a mini (too much shetland in the minis here, I think). As for faults, well, he's a baby...I hate looking at babies for conformation, once they start growing, cuz they get soooo...well, ungainly (I'm being polite! :laugh1 ). Newboy is just now starting to look like his body might fit his head again, while Ebony has developed a real slope from bum to withers...

Diane

beautifull babies and really nice pictures of them!

Love Piano Man! I've allways said I'm going to get a leopard spotted mini one day, no chance any time in the forseeable future but I think that's going to be my pet when I'm an old lady :lol:

[quote]I hate looking at babies for conformation, once they start growing, cuz they get soooo...well, ungainly (I'm being polite! ).[/quote]
I'm sure some of you have noticed the lack of V pictures the past year or so :laugh1 She's just now getting back into a way that I can look at without :hammer

You don't want to hear my current real complaints about Ebony...I'm seriously praying that she's just got a combo of winter woolies and near yearling growth crap going on.... :BH :hammer :laugh1

Diane

Oh gawd, every winter I think everything I have bred is total crap and I should just stick to riding lessons and training. Then spring comes and they shed and I am dazzled by the pretty ponies. :D

Apparently I have a hard time keeping that picture in my mind through the dreary, Oregon winter.

nothing can be drearier than the Great British winter - grey followed by more grey - can't reccommend it !!

A high school friend of mine married an Irish man and they were living here for the first part of their marriage. Eventually he announced that if he was going to live someplace with weather exactly like Ireland he may as well be living IN Ireland so they moved over there. :)

yes I can confirm that he weather here in Ireland is CRAP we do not have a summer , I wear jumpers/sweaters all year round ( I do not jest) , everytime it rains its a torrent ,Lipi I lived in the UK for most of my life and complained about the weather - only now do I realise how good it was there

Our only difference here, I think, is that we do have a summer. It is brief but very dry -- all the mud turns to dust for two or three months and we gag and choke on it, then the rains come back!

At least it's predictable. Oklahoma is rough just by the constant changes. I usually only get a cold once every two years or so. I've lived here 2 years and I've had 3 colds and the flu. :? :hammer
Florida was hot but at least you knew it. No sense checking the weather where I lived. highs in the 90s, humidity 100% 50% chance of rain and if it does rain in the summer it will be at 4 pm. :laugh1 And the hurricanes give you a nice little few days to get ready. And you do get to cool of a bit in Jan and Feb.
The storms here is more like being on a old time ship in the movies. "oh crap! batten down the hatches!". And they speak of 60-70 mph so matter of factly here...that's tropical storm force! :rofl May not last very long but enough to blow away anything not bolted down.

We keep threatening to move back to Hawaii, i just have to figure out if I can take the horses :lol:

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And that's a [i]small[/i] storm. :lol: the cloud apeared as I was feeding.

morgan you win ! you definately have it worse :shock:
you said you would like a spotted mini well today I got this boy home , he used to be mine and I sold him and today I got him back again :D his name is conundrum morse code

thats three times the poor boy has crossed the irish sea , here he is just arrived off of the ferry

Those pics are great rf...thanks so much for showing us. Your filly is very pretty and feminine, while Rio is a real "man" lol isnt he? (well for a few weeks more :rofl

Great to finally get to see a pic of Carlos, he is beautiful! And your new colt.......very nice! (dont tell rabbit I said tho will you! :lol: ) Hope your next foals arrive without any problems.