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Hello. Tuffydoodle suggested I come here to shelter myself from the lynch mob. It's bad enough that I get beseiged by two cows and a horse when I walk out the door. I do not know how to post pics. I don't know which pics I have on disc and on my desktop! I have tons of photos, but no scanner.
An intro. I grew up on a ranch, actually a family member managed a boarding stable, so I exercised alot of the horses. I could ride an 18 hand Palomino before I could walk. But my 1st pony, a Welsh, always got the better of me. My uncle was a "cowboy" and I used to love to ride his rodeo horse Jimbob. The first time I was ever thrown was on Jimbob. My uncle told me to never say "wo" while galloping. So I did, and went flying about 8 feet in the air, landing on my bottom.
I started riding in fun shows really young and only showed seriously at Del Mar and Silver Strand. Western Eq and Pleasure. At present I live on a ranch and have one horse, a Quarter/Palomino stud. He is the Great Grandson of two Futurity champions. His daddy was claimed off the track, and since my uncle couldn't afford to put him in training, he roped off of him and bred him. That's where my Sunny boy came from. It is unfortunate, but he doesn't get out on the trail much because he is a stud. I've tried that, and the first time he sniffed a mare, he tried to throw me. So we ride on 22 acres of private property. He is about 16 1/2 hands, HUGE and extremely powerful. Gentle giant, but if he gets his head down after a stint of non-exercise, lookout for head snapping. Right now he is enduring a windstorm. He is in love with a cow. If I were a liberal, I'd hire him a shrink. But he misses his buddy Baxter, who was sold to a ranch a year ago. That was a great horse. Part thoroughbred, a little rank, but the best trail horse I have ever ridden.

Cheers, FOC