Well, as Winnie the Pooh would say.. it was a blustery day in the Hundred Acre wood.. the wind howled all day on the top of my hill and it really seemed like winter is on its way. We managed to get in a short trail ride and work a few horses, bundled in our winter riding outfits.

OYY Buster brown is just a yearling- born last year in October out of our wonderful mare Sudie Bee and Mead's Chocolate Chip. Up until now, he has not done much except the very basics.. but now he is in harness and ground driving. He is catching on fast-- and proud of himself. He's a handsome smart young fellow- and is going to make a super driving horse. He has driving in his genes, inherited from his grand-mother Teena. Buster has a full sister who also drove and now is making a super riding horse for a family in Massachusetts.
I am pretty pleased with Chip offspring as far as trainability and disposition-- and anything from my favorite "Teena" bloodlines is a winner. Even though it was VERY cold I got lots of nice photo's- which are now on the web site, http://www.vermontel.net/~top/born%202006.htm

It's so great when the breeding game results in so many intelligent honest willing horses with so much potential.

Wednesday, while I was working-- I heard the train whistle blowing .. so I knew that Thursday would bring rain-- and rain it did.. nasty and cold. However- the silver lining in that Miserable Thursday was a beautiful colt born in the morning out of Zoe's Day Dream (barn name Reverie) and Classic Dream's Cherokee Storm, my cremello stallion. This is Stormy's fifth foal and they are all impressive, with fabulous personalities and mellow dispositions. The new guy is called OYY Hendrix. He is Reverie's third foal, first colt. The first is OYY Lickity Split, sired by Frostfire's Tadpole and she is in NH being trained and ridden by a young woman now in college. (Lickity is featured in a previous blog entry). The second filly is OYY Olympia, sired by Lynn Downer's WCC Benjamin. This filly I am keeping- a beautiful very sound and correct black curly filly. Little Hendrix is not so little.. as you can see from the photo's. He's a very dark rich caramel palomino with 2 blue eyes right now.. we'll see if they stay blue. What a cutie !! He'll be registered in the ICHO. Reverie is registered in both the ICHO and the ABC. Stormy has a number in the ABC, but his offspring cannot be registered in the ABC anymore as he is 1/2. It's a shame that there are some truly good horses out there that are not eligible for the ABC registry anymore-- but that's a topic for another day !!

Enjoy the day ~