Yesterday was business as usual, exercising horses and doing ground work with 2 year olds. My future extreme curly pony stud, OYY Finnegan, is being worked in harness. He's making quick progress and I am sure he'll be driving in no time. I enjoy the curly pony breeding and in addition to size, conformation and temperament-- the offspring HAVE to trainable and ride and drive. Driving is in the genes-- I find some horses hate driving, some driving horses really don't like being under saddle. When we have horses that do both happily and well-- I am happy too.

We have a 2 year old lovely smooth coated mare- OYY Cosette -- who is being ground driven. She is sired by Lynn Downer's WCC Benjamin. He was here at the farm on lease and gave me some beautiful well mannered intelligent foals. She is out of Anniva M and has inherited the "Morganny" look from Ruby Red King. She's a large pony- at 13.2 hands. Doing well ground driving- we can't wait to ride her though.

We have several very large pastures which we lease.. just have to keep up the fences. So horses are rotated back and forth from the farm to pasture and back again depending on training schedules, farrier appointments, etc. From the time they are born-- foals load and unload traveling with their Moms to pasture and home again. I have never had a horse who refused to load.

This morning, OYY Tadpole's Moonin "U", a 4 year old ride/drive gelding, 14 hands, left for his new home where he will be used mainly in combined driving. He's a super driving horse and outstanding on the trail under saddle. It's wonderful when the horses find their ultimate home and job in life. That is what makes the breeding business worth it.

Our little POA mare, Pal, went out to pasture yesterday with her new buckskin filly, Ceda. She joined 2 other mares with their foals born earlier this spring. Ceda will have fun investigating and playing. She'll be in training a few years-- and also my hopes are to breed her to the pony stud OYY Finnegan. Pal is a great driving pony and also goes well under saddle. She has given some lessons as well in the therapeutic riding program. Ceda should be just as smart as her Mom.. and even though it's a few years off--- her foal with Finn will an even better curly pony! Photo is Ceda right before she loaded onto the trailer for her short trip to pasture.

Haying thankfully is done for now-- we had a semi-drought for a few weeks.. then torrential rains and flooding for a week. Today is gorgeous and it's time to tackle my list of the day. One task will be - walk the fencelines as the hard rains and high winds no doubt dropped limbs and maybe trees... love the horses but some jobs are not so enjoyable.

Enjoy the day ~