And hello to J and Milly (Mouse)
Let’s say hello to J and Milly (Mouse). Not to be confused with (Chilli) Milly from last week!
Milly (Mouse) is another polocrosse superstar, and she has the runs on the board to back it up. Milly (Mouse) has stepped up (or down) to the challenge of becoming a kids horse, and apart from the odd little joie de vivre has become a special part of the family.
Let’s meet R and (Chilli) Milly
Why Chilli Milly you ask? Because there are two Milly’s in this family, and Chilli Milly is from the spicy line.
While by a particularly hot Australian Stock Horse, Chilli Milly has taken a bit from her dam’s quarter horse side and is the perfect kids first polocrosse horse… and mum.
The latest edition
With nothing to ride and a new farm to call home, I started the search for a new horse, this time specifically for a lusitano or andalusian. With my ambitions aligned to classical as opposed to competition dressage, and being all of five foot, the Iberian breeds seemed better suited. The search started and ended pretty quickly, and I brought a new horse horse to meet a paddock of misfits.
He’s a Lemon
“He’s a Lemon!”. Yep, that’s what my husband said as we stood at the vet clinic looking at my meticulously planned and long awaited foal that had just been born.
Audrey went in first insemination and I watched this embryo and Audrey’s belly grow until little Lemon finally arrived.
My sweetest Daudy Belle
Oh Audrey, where do I start?!
I bought Audrey as a then 2yo as my first “proper“ dressage horse to train right from the beginning. Us two novices worked it out together and our ridden journey began. You had to be 100% focused working with Audrey, she was a primadonna in every sense of the word. She wore her heart on her sleeve and overthought e.v.e.r.y.thing.
Short intermission
I thought i’d put in a short (pun intended) intermission here with a pony I rode for a few years. My next actual horse story is another sad one, and it felt a bit too dark to write after Elvis’s.
This one is hard
Ooft. This one is going to be hard. Next in my story is Elvis, my little arab that I bought as a low maintenance, pre-trained, middle aged horse, that I could have as a side hobby, while I lived the rest of my life studying, partying, working and being a social 19yo.
And then there was Ellie May
Straight after year 12 exams I flew down to Sydney and was picked up from the airport on the way to Inglis thoroughbred sales, thoroughbred in the float and ready to be sold!
Next up is Dylan
As a non-horsey family, we were still very naive about horse ownership and horse owners and have found out along the way that buying (and selling) horses is not for the faint hearted.
Dylan arrived from NSW with huge excitement. While unloading Dylan (a fire breathing dragon) off the truck, we started to realise he might not be the personality we were expecting.
Who is Lilli?
Lilli was originally my sister’s. We went and saw this little fat dumpy pony that a saddle wouldn’t fit. My sister test rode her bareback, with no steering, brakes or accelerator, and came back and professed she loved her and just had to have her. And therein starts her story with us.
My first horse.
Glen was our first horse, as a family, but Shorty, he was mine. I still remember seeing Shorty from a distance at a show and falling in love with him instantly. In hindsight, he was a short-strided quarter horse attempting to be a show horse, but I thought he was heavenly.
The start of it all.
My sister and I were horse mad from a young age, cantering on-foot around the backyard, making jumps and pretty much “hobby-horsing”, before it was a thing. We went to a riding school weekly, got our pony club certificates and convinced our parents that we could definitely have our own.
Meet Charlotte
Meet Charlotte, a 12 year old ex racehorse who hails back to some of the greats.
Ningaloo ho-Le-day
Who starts an equine photography business coming into winter?? That would be me. Rookie error, but here we are, so for those horsey nuts who love adventuring, wildlife and landscapes, here’s a little sneak peak into my other life.