New Baby at Work!

[outriding01]

Well I have been working pretty hard at the breeding stable with their young horses and it's going well. Echo should be ready for the baby greens by July. Hopefully I can ride him at the Barrington Hill Charity Horseshow in August. Last Saturday a photographer came out to get updated pics for the website. I went out to work but thought I was just going to be grooming and that their pro rider was going to be riding. They ended up putting me on not only the young ones I've been working with but also on one of the older smaller warmbloods, "True", since I'm so small and they wanted her to look bigger. Everyone was really good except Emagine. I was sitting on her back in the ring, just standing there waiting for the photographer to quit talking and she all of a sudden put her head down and took off bucking down the fenceline. Got to the corner, stopped, reared and started back the other way. I bailed and we took pics on the ground.... She needed her teeth done so I couldn't get in her mouth or pull or steer or anything cause she would flip out. Otherwise I would have goetten back on and worked her thorugh it. She got done this week though so it's all good.

I worked again yesterday. I only rode Enero and Echo but they were both very good. Got Echo trotting beautifully back and forth over a crossrail. The vet was out to geld two of the yearlings, PK and Evin. And Evita's foal was born! They used a surrogate mare and she had some trouble so we had to pull him out and we thought he was stillborn. But he wasn't so we got him up and nursing. After that, besides a retained placenta which flushed easily, everything was fine. Soooo, here are pictures!

He's a Popeye K baby so we're thinking of naming him Poker Face.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/Teapot01/babies/baby3.jpg

Check out the chrome! That's a big Popeye K trait.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/Teapot01/babies/baby2.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/Teapot01/babies/baby5.jpg

We fixed the halter after the pictures, lol.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/Teapot01/babies/baby4.jpg

And here's Endora and Emagine since I never posted pics of them.

Endora, I love her.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/Teapot01/babies/endora1.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/Teapot01/babies/endora2.jpg

And Emagine. She's pretty, but a handful.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/Teapot01/babies/Emagine1.jpg

[Vibe]

gorgeous horses all of them. And that foal so cute, haha all legs.

[~*Domino*~]

Wow, sure has some legs on him! Love all the chrome! ;-)

[FatSpottedAppy]

Very cute! I love that big blaze.

[Gliderider]

Beautiful horses and very very cute foal

[Horseaholic]

I want to come to work with you! lol That foal is SO CUTE.

[zoel_222]

Awww cute baby! I want your job lol

[Gypsy Rose]

What a little cutie! All the other horses are beautiful, too!

[outriding01]

Well baby is doing good so far. We feel bad because once weaned, mom has to go back to the company they got her from since she's just a surrogate. When they got her, she was in bad shape. Not neglected, but a little on the skinny side, not groomed in who knows who long, feet not done, etc. She's been a surrogate broodmare her whole life and probably will be until she can't anymore. Theyw ere trying to figure out a way to keep her, but there's just no room. They'd like to be able to be senimental but they're running a business and with the way the market is, they just can't justify taking on another horse, especially one that probably isn't broke to ride and isn't anything they're breeding for. She's actually really cute. I don't know if you can tell in the pics, but she's a bay roan. She's got good confo and is QH-looking but I don't know if she's registered and is probably around 16.1hh. I think she'd make a pretty good WP horse, or even a reiner if she has a motor. She moves nice and has a good shoulder and a pretty head. I wish we could find a job for her. I hate to see her just used to pop out oter mare's babies the rest of her life...