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.