Spirit

Other than Nolia, Spirit is usually the only other horse that comes up to me (sometimes) to munch on yummy grass. Here are some pictures of her. :)

Also, Spirit is a Saddlebred! She shows a lot of characteristics for the breed; such as a long, straight head, flattish croup, long torso, and high-set tail.

Spirit has pretty eyes and a long, thin stripe that makes her look even taller.

In my opinion, she has quite nice conformation. :)

Yikes. If she would let me mess with her mane, I might be able to get the dreadlocks under control. But even then...

Being a buckskin, she doesn't have a broad dorsal stripe (or any at all, for this horse), and she also has some slight silvering in her mane and tail.

Again, you can see her nice conformation.

Foals - Satin

Satin was a mini filly born last year on either June 24, or a couple days following that. She is Angel's half-sister, as they had the same dam (Babe, a silver bay tobiano). Her sire was Pepper, the buckskin sabino stud that we lost last year.

Combining all the alleles that Satin's parents carried, she could have (not did) inherited the cream, tobiano, sabino, and silver alleles. Being as both her parents were bay-based (buckskin and silver bay), it isn't a surprise that Satin herself is a bay. It is a surprise, though, that she didn't inherit either the tobiano or sabino allele. Ah well.

We won't be selling her because she's a Pepper baby. Next year we'll start showing her, and once she's done with that she'll be added to the breeding stock. :)

Here are some pictures of her a couple days after she was born. :)

Images by Theresa Hautala, used with permission.

Oh yeah. Aren't I cute.

Mhm. She really must have been thinking that she's queen of the muck pile. :P

Awww. :)

A slightly better shot of her conformation.