He's a gelding. Not something I'd be jealous of. :rolleyes:

Daughter on the way to Hospital as I post.
Looks like I'll be a Grand Pappy again very soon. :cool:

Young dude turned 9 today...days that is!
 

Loved the "old dude" story so much, thought I'd share my own. I can understand how Orion feels, as I had a retired therapy horse given to me to care for when she was 23 years old. Her name was Bess and she was an Arabian dressage horse for many years and was then retired and "worked" as a therapy horse for young children with physical disabilities. Bess came to our farm to finish out her days in true retirement. We figured she would only live a few more years...but she finally passed on at the age of 34! She gave the world a lot of joy in those 34 years.

On to the gist of this post that is alluded to in the title. For those of you that know Quarter Horses, Zippo Pine Bar was and is regarded as a very good breeding line. I have the last of his sons and a Foundation Quarter Horse mare out of the Zippo line as well. April 20, 2013 we were blessed with the birth of a direct granson of Zippo Pine Bar. Tentative name will be Zippo's Flashy Legacy. Welcome to the world "young dude"!

That is quite a pedigree. :) Nice looking foal. My last horse was a quarter horse of the Skipster line.

Not sure if you caught the movie, "Buck"... but he had a number of great quotes that resonated with my own love and passion for horses.

With the poor economy, and people grossly in debt, there are thousands of horses turning up "in the system", severely underfed, feet so long they curl under, teeth so messed up they can barely chew.... I look at your wobbly little dude, with his whole life ahead of him, and hope he always has a dedicated owner, a kind but firm hand, and a long, happy life! Who knows what his world, our world, will look like 30 years from now......

Stargazer, this is one of my favorites:

I rescued a horse, Cochise, last year. The first picture if from last Feb, the day I picked him up. The second is last May. It a wonder what difference a little TLC and some decent feed makes.

Enjoy!

Great quote. Thank you for sharing!

How great is that. Love his name too!

Good work! Great name. ;)

Pat

I'm not surprised you filled in his top line in 3 months, but that hip! I would not have thought you could round out his butt like that so fast. Great job! He won the lottery when he got you. :)

It's a really good thing I understand "horse person speak". :rolleyes:

Happy that the snow held off long enough for me to get the grass cut.

My cousin's hubby is home from deployment, via the USS Stennis! Welcome home LT. :D

Got 3 bricks (555 rounds each) of 22LR @ $0.045 / round.
First I've been able to find this year.
m&c

My deployed wife had some "work" done to her truck an it was just completed. Now it needs a 500 mile break in on her new suspension. Guess I'll have to suffer through and drive it around for her.