One more picture - Jen does more than ponies. Here she is eventing on her 15.3 thoroughbred.

Absoulely...Don't give up on a blind horse. My last high mountain trail horse was a 16 hand Thoroughbred/quarterhorse who was 26 and blind. Stone blind at 23. I still rode him on mountain trails. Had to pay attention to where he was going, but he never missed a step if you warned him about a log or rock. I would say "watch the log" and he would put his head down and find it then step over it...If they trust you they will go anywhere you want them to go...

My wife says..."Beautiful horse"...

Best time to come down here for Foxtrotters is in September during the Foxtrotter world grand championships. They auction off around 100 or more...The show and auction occur 3 miles from my place and lasts 6 days. If that interests you...You would have a place to stay...

This is Mom (Tulsa) and Son (Zeus). Both registered Foxtrotters. And NO...Not for sale. Zeus is Cutter's replacment. She is just short of 16 hands. He is 6 months old yesterday...

Good looking horses!

Yeah...If only Zeus had ears...

Hmm.. horses.. tried to ride one of those once.. I think there is something called a saddle on them.

Its something like
"nice horsey... Let me up on you..."
*crunch*

OOOWWWW!!

Never been up since...
Dangerous thing to do..

Hey Dawgdad.....in my reply waaaaay back near the top I said that that I was 110km North of Sydney.....wrong.....its actually 1100km mate. Damn. 110km made me sound like a whinger.

Hope I haven't left myself open with that last comment.

I'm workin' on it.

Cheers, Vince

I checked the Map and thought it looked like a lot further than 70 miles I won't ask you to explain what a whinger is.

Dawddad, whinger means .....belly acher....complainer....someone who whinges, whines, moans, complains over unimportant or minor things. Bit like the guy who complains about getting a speeding fine when he has broken the speed limit. Maybe another aussie term that you won't be familiar with.

Mate, your daughter looks like she is one helluva competitor.....anybody who goes up against her is gonna have their job cut out for them. I'm going to send my eldest daughter a link to this thread as she is a bit of a horse nut as well.

Cheers, Vince

Dawgdad,
New South Wales, parts of Queensland and the ACT are under Quarantine due to an outbreak of Equine Influenza.
All movement of horses in the state were banned.
You can check on current up dates at www.dpi.nsw.gov.au.
The only thing I know about horses is that hay goes in one end and you can't trust the other.

Bushmaster,
I also know that when a horse has his ears back like that then he is all excited and about to give you a big friendly hello kiss. And in horse language he is actually saying "come on, come a little closer, just a bit closer, closer, just a bit closer so I can kiss you, come on closer"

Best of luck to your daughter, hope you can arrange to be here to see her win.

Vince typo accepted without comment.

Pommies are aknowledged to be the worlds best whingers.

Dawgdad,
New South Wales, parts of Queensland and the ACT are under Quarantine due to an outbreak of Equine Influenza.
All movement of horses in the state were banned.
You can check on current up dates at www.dpi.nsw.gov.au.
The only thing I know about horses is that hay goes in one end and you can't trust the other.

Bushmaster,
I also know that when a horse has his ears back like that then he is all excited and about to give you a big friendly hello kiss. And in horse language he is actually saying "come on, come a little closer, just a bit closer, closer, just a bit closer so I can kiss you, come on closer"

Best of luck to your daughter, hope you can arrange to be here to see her win.

Vince typo accepted without comment.

Pommies are aknowledged to be the worlds best whingers.

Sorry about the double up, kept getting scipt error report and double clicked something.

tikkat3 wrote:

Sorry about the double up, kept getting scipt error report and double clicked something.

Yeah right mate....you just like goin' full auto...don'tchya.

Seriously though, I've been having the same problem...Runtime Error reports and it asks me if I want to Debug, with the error listed as "object expected".

Cheers, Vince

tikkat3 wrote:

Sorry about the double up, kept getting scipt error report and double clicked something.

Here I am thinking only Vince and I got stuttering fingers.. somehow its us Ozzies thats have the affliction

Gelan

Goodluck to your daughter!

And have a fun trip if you do end up going.

Dimitri