{"id":1554,"date":"2012-04-19T12:03:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2012-04-19T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T18:04:07","slug":"horse-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1554","title":{"rendered":"Horse Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have, or had, lots of pictures of horses, including with me on them (and most of them I didn’t own.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are just three of Ky, in age ranging from 18 to 20 or 21 (not sure now).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was bought off a ranch in New Mexico as a youngish (5 or 6 year old) horse that had a habit of jumping out of corrals, and became a show jumper in Texas before I’d ever been in a flat saddle.\u00a0 We intersected in his older age (16\/17) after a career-ending injury to his stifle, but he could still jump up to about 4’3″.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At that time, I was just becoming comfortable with 3′ jumps.\u00a0\u00a0 I leased him for about a year before buying him, and moved him to our present home when we moved here.<\/p>\n

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Here he’s trucking me through my first-ever horse show (we also did a flat class) , and this was my first time to jump a triple combination.\u00a0 It’s not high, but it was challenging enough for me.<\/p>\n

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My weird position here is due to having put him in a near-impossible position to jump this…coming into the fence at a sharp angle, without room for another stride (I was avoiding a mud patch).\u00a0\u00a0 Having been told he could jump anything in the ring from any angle, I closed my legs and spoke to him.\u00a0 The rocket assist came on,\u00a0 he shot up in the air, twisted to square himself to the fence, and landed like a marshmallow.\u00a0 I hung on.\u00a0 Obviously.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was a dead honest horse to ride;\u00a0 he loved to jump, was amazingly fast for his breeding,\u00a0 and aside for the stifle injury that ended his career as an open jumper,\u00a0 the soundest horse I’ve ever owned except for the Arab mare.<\/p>\n

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Once we moved him up here, I could ride him around town bareback, or under saddle in the local festival parade (in which he pranced like a youngster and showed off–he loved an audience.)\u00a0\u00a0 But he died at 23,\u00a0 when a maximum dose of Bute wasn’t enough to keep him comfortable (re-injury of his stifle, thanks to a kick from the same TB mare)\u00a0 and the vet and I agreed that putting him down was the only humane thing to do.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So, though I had initially thought Paks would have a golden-colored horse (not palomino–one of those golden chestnuts),\u00a0 when the horse ran out of the hills and to her…it was this one.<\/p>\n

I have no pictures (at least not that I can find right now)\u00a0 of the horse I bought for Michael (the one that came with a history of past founder, and foundered again, fatally, later.\u00a0\u00a0 This is also the horse that bucked me off spectacularly–sunfishing–and then kicked me in the rear while I was still up in the air. )<\/p>\n

Pictures of the Arab mare looking her best<\/a>, at the trainer’s.<\/p>\n

Pictures of Cricket<\/a> (another rehab case, bought for Michael)\u00a0 right after she arrived, hundreds of pounds underweight and full of worms (that’s not a hay-belly), and then later when he was riding her.<\/p>\n

Pictures of Illusion<\/a> (inherited from Kathleen, who trained him to upper levels of dressage–I can’t ride at those levels.)\u00a0 He’s half warmblood, one quarter Pryor Mountain mustang, and one quarter mystery.<\/p>\n

And now I really do have to go Deal With Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have, or had, lots of pictures of horses, including with me on them (and most of them I didn’t own.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are just three of Ky, in age ranging from 18 to 20 or 21 (not sure now).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was bought off a ranch in New Mexico as a youngish (5 or 6 year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}