Pictures

[Excess]

I'm looking for good Californio/Vaquero pictures....of people, equipment, horses. Preferebly fully tacked up...or pictures that show partly of a horse fully tacked up like of a two-rein, bosal, spade bit, spurs, chinks, but on horses and cowboys...artsy pictures. I went to the cowboy photography site someone posted earlier. I loved it. I also can't find any real nice pictures of Tom Dorrance...Any sites or pictures would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

[KpH]

I have a few cool pictures of Tom and me....have to hunt em up.
K4H
(problem is they have someone else in em too)

[AWSpinks]

Here is one of my horses for your enjoyment. http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b71/ElCaballero/horse/HPIM0340.jpg

[KpH]

Nice pic...and great grass,
wish we had grass like that here!
Is it a Peppy San horse?, or Dry Doc?
K4H

[AWSpinks]

Is it a Peppy San horse?, or Dry Doc?
K4H



HA

He is an own son of Mardelle Dixon. The famous paint horse. It is a long story but the short version is this. A lady got him instead of some money that was owed her, she sold him and he was put in an apple orchard where he ate on the trees, so they put him in the garage. There he, as horses sometime do, pooped. So back he went. Somewhere in all this he got his two top front teeth knocked out.

I was in need of a horse and found him as a 3 year old. Since he had been sold once and brought back and was missing some teeth he was lets say "reasonably priced". We get along pretty good.

The grass is one of our yearling pastures.

[Excess]

HA

He is an own son of Mardelle Dixon. The famous paint horse. It is a long story but the short version is this. A lady got him instead of some money that was owed her, she sold him and he was put in an apple orchard where he ate on the trees, so they put him in the garage. There he, as horses sometime do, pooped. So back he went. Somewhere in all this he got his two top front teeth knocked out.

I was in need of a horse and found him as a 3 year old. Since he had been sold once and brought back and was missing some teeth he was lets say "reasonably priced". We get along pretty good.

The grass is one of our yearling pastures.

I love that pic AwSpinks!!! My horse is a Mardelle Dixon horse too...but four generations back or so. He's a grandson of Ratchett's Par. He doesn't look as nice and solid as your horse is though even though he's pretty much all foundation. I am mathematically challenged so I could never figure out how to figure out foundations. Your horse is gorgeous. I love the picture. I can't wait to get Speedy into such a nice outfit...here's one of him all dressed up: http://image14.webshots.com/14/8/36/76/2275836760062041520mdfcGM_ph.jpg?track_pagetag=/page/photo/pets/horses&track_action=/Owner/Shortcuts/FullSize

[reata]

awspinks, I love that Pic, I have a copy of it on my wall. I even sent a copy of it to Excess along with some other nice ones..

[red]

yippers...awspinks... I have that picture saved and it is on my screen saver...in color, and in black and white...can't get enough...that all knowing look, that glance back...in the company of greatness...and lookat him, he knows he is gorgeous...what a lucky bunch we are...

[RockinCircleC]

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a159/elizabethannclark/09_23_2006/trailclass.jpg
KigerFest 2006 High Point Junior Horse Open/Mustang
Very first show!
Buena is a 5 year old grade Arab and has been under saddle since October 2004. I started her myself (my first REAL colt to be started). [end of brag]

[Excess]

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a159/elizabethannclark/09_23_2006/trailclass.jpg
KigerFest 2006 High Point Junior Horse Open/Mustang
Very first show!
Buena is a 5 year old grade Arab and has been under saddle since October 2004. I started her myself (my first REAL colt to be started). [end of brag]

Kigerfest! I absolutely love Kigers. I always said my next horse would be a kiger. I sold my mare and was looking for one, called a few breeders, but then Speedy fell in my lap. So the next horse that is going to be MY horse and not a project horse will be a Kiger. They're absolutely my favorite breed.

[buckarette]

Excess, I'm having a blast with my new digital camera and will send a few pics to your email from our brandings and ranch ropings if you like! :)

Buckarette

[Excess]

Excess, I'm having a blast with my new digital camera and will send a few pics to your email from our brandings and ranch ropings if you like! :)

Buckarette

I'd love to see them Buckarette! I'm sure everyone else would love to too. Have you considered opening up a webshots photo album? I have one. I just started one of my tack. I still have to add a lot to it! I can post a link if anyone wants to see.

[buckarette]

ok - would love to do that, but daaah - not a clue where to go or how to do - can you give me some pointers and I will try it out! :)

[Excess]

ok - would love to do that, but daaah - not a clue where to go or how to do - can you give me some pointers and I will try it out! :)

Yup! You go to www.webshots.com. It's very easy to do. You sign up for an account and you can upload up to 150 pictures for free. It's very straight forward! Here's all of my albums: http://community.webshots.com/user/jeauthomas

[Excess]

I took a picture of Speedy in his bosal this weekend. I still have to reshape the bosal, but I wanted to get a picture of him all tacked up looking all vaquero-like. It's not the greatest picture but I still think he looks quite magestic! =)

http://image59.webshots.com/459/0/67/68/2390067680062041520ImwTPB_ph.jpg?track_pagetag=/page/photo/pets/horses&track_action=/Owner/Shortcuts/FullSize

[red]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSObdP0UoHI I hope this is not offensive to some of you...it is portions of a bull fight...but I want you to look at the lateral motion on this horse, and close your eyes to the bull fighting focus on the movements this horse makes.
I have seen these moves at times in dressage, but never ever executed like this...please forgive the bull fight part...I just was emailed this link, and marvelled at the moves this horse was making...

[buckarette]

great - thank you! I will give a go and let you know when its completed! :)

[red]

Ok, I can hardly stand the bull fight part, but after reading the comments, I learned that in Portugal, the bull is not killed...(why THAT makes me feel better, I dunno..) But, I have looked at this now about 10 times, trying to pick out manuvers, the art, as this horse manuvers, and moves, and I lost track...I never knew a horse could DO all of that...amazed me.
Mares, I know you will hate the bull fight part, but tell me what do you think of this horse?

[fionagirl]

I can't figure out how to send pictures but this seemed like a reasonable place to put this question. My 2-y-o filly was born sorrel of a blue roan dam (sire's color unknown). She turns red roan (almost pink) over the winter and then sheds out to white with red "points" in the summer. Does anyone have experience to say whether this pattern will continue her whole life?

[Mares Tales]

To Red,

I would love to sit on or own that horse in the video. What athleticism! I see the ability to collect from the horses conformation. The collection, flexibility in shoulders and haunches is wonderful BUT........too bad the horse is trying to escape disaster in order to display its abilities.

I understand the sport and exhibition but it gives me no pleasure to watch it knowing that one animal is being tormented and the other is running for its life.........all to please a selfish human and entertain an audience. I would much rather see the horse and rider displaying the horses ability without the doom of disaster looming over its head, this is something the human has set up for entertainment and for me it cheapens it. Much of what the horse is doing in that video is to excape!

Ok, for those who think I sound like a recruiter for Peta, think again! There are degrees of using an animal....some with the idea of developing suredness and harmony and the idea of a level ground and the other without much thought to how the animal feels about it..... everyone has to ask themselves..."where is the line that YOU are not willing to cross?". I don`t think that if you are coming from a place within yourself that has empathy and recognises that the animal has a right to be here just like you do that it can be called EXPLOITATION no matter how you use the animal because if you come from THAT PLACE.......you WON`T. Horses can have a job without having this degree of risking their lives. (Even the degree of angle of the leg yielding and the the speed in which it has to be carried out in those maneuvers in the video can be VERY detrimental to a horse in just a short time. This is a proven fact by veterinarians and research, not just an opinion of mine) At least with the bullfighting it is OBVIOUS and I find that actually more honest in its advertising than some of the other equine sports that use horses UP and keep the dirty little secrets hovering around in the backround behind the curtains. I find that deceitful to the animal and to the audience.(audience being potential buyers, abservers, other participants, the newbies, the uneducated, people who lie to themselves and say it never happens in THEIR sport or to THEIR horses). OK enough of the lecture, you knew what my feelings were going to be and I had to get it out in the open.

You asked what I thought of the horse and I think that horse has all the characteristics of an animal that I would love to own, having said that.....I would spend much of our time together on relaxation, stretching down, developing rhythm and bringing back the horses natural gaits and then enjoy what nature gave that horse in athleticism, flexibility and talent and appreciate to the fullest extent of what is in me, of what that lovely horse had to offer because I gave it a chance to do so..without TENSION or coercion or fear. I believe THAT would be pleasing to the both of us, including onlookers who come from the same place inside themselves as I do, others might want to walk out in boredom and go down the hall and watch the bullfighting. Thirty years ago, I might have gotten caught up in the excitement and been among them and not have given it a second thought. I think I`ve grown and matured as a human being and this type of "conscious horsemanship" is helping me to get to the place I want to be someday. I know I`m not finished and this isn`t the end of the trail yet either and I am sure it isn`t for a whole lot of others.

I didn`t mean to get on THE SOAPBOX but you asked me a question that I gave an answer to and I just wrote in words what I felt in my heart.

[red]

eah, buddy....that is what I thought you would say!! (and most of us feel the same..)...but I have never seen anything like it, and still marvel at the athleticism...when you get down to brass tax...MOST injuries to animals are caused by humans...neglectful, or intentional, training or subjecting an animal to adverse circumstances...this is an extreme example...and most intense extreme activities at that rate of speed are injurious to horses, from cutting, to jumping, more harm is done to the horse that sits in the backyard, and is hauled out to a monthly trail ride..underconditioned, there is always a risk of injury.. I am right there with you on your soap box...I still say an incredible atheletic individual...do I advocate that sort of deal? Nope. But do I admire the ability of the equine? Like you said so well...boy would I like to own that pony...I think that the words harmony and balance come into play...