I think Ellie will be a finer-boned mare. She won’t have the more muscled neck that Hope has. And for Becky’s CTR purposes, Hope will be able to compete sooner than Ellie. The minimun age for Novice class is 4yrs old and 5yrs old for Open. She could compete in Novice with Hope this coming spring. She’d have to wait another year on Ellie.
Ah - well that’s a good consideration!
Heh... the wicked part of me thinks they look so much alike to me that she could switch them in the night and have a fresh horse each day :~D
Is the ‘feel’ of the gait pretty similar among yours? Is there a lot of variance in the quality and speed of the the gait between Blade, Hope and Ellie? I know you said Bob is faster, but who is smoothest and steadiest?
HMMMMMMMM....that’s interesting about Ellie being finer boned. That was something I noticed about Hope that I really liked was she wasn’t fine boned. She wasn’t bulky either like a QH, but being a QH lover:), I was impressed when I really looked at her, that she did have a nice round butt:) But to be honest I didn’t really LOOK at Ellie.
I was just amazed at how well they both did given their age and the long trailer ride and being unloaded in such a strange place and all the commotion when we were all getting ready to go. They both did better then Harley:)
Becky