moirar
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Post by moirar on Jul 31, 2011 7:30:39 GMT
Hi I've just joined this forum. I'm also new to driving. I have a 9 yr old Highland pony Dellfarm Laddie who has been a ridden pony up till now but is coming on fairly well in the carriage. Also have 4 yr old Highland called Melfort of Stanford who I ride and is long reining ready to break to drive. Laddie Mel
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Post by rabatsa on Jul 31, 2011 7:38:26 GMT
Hello and welcome. Mel looks a practical colour, does not show the dirt like a grey
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moirar
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Post by moirar on Jul 31, 2011 7:42:14 GMT
Indeed Laddie is a mud monster!! Mel is just a monster!
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Post by rabatsa on Jul 31, 2011 7:49:24 GMT
Having owned greys in the past I know that you have to take out shares in a shampoo company to keep them looking pristine, where as with a good dun you only need a stiff brush and some elbow grease. Nowadays I have three bays and a very funny colour mare which hides the mud perfectly.
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Post by moirar on Jul 31, 2011 7:52:51 GMT
Laddie officially cream dun - he has impressive eel stripe, but he gets paler each year. He had a black mane, face and legs when I got him at 4. He's still very creamy in the winter (until I attack him with the clippers.
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Post by rabatsa on Jul 31, 2011 8:00:23 GMT
Did he have a grey parent? as it sounds like he is greying out and the cream dun was his birth colour.
I have never forgotten that I once bought a 2 year old bay with a star and a white foot. By the time he was 10yrs he had pale grey knees and the rest was meant to be white but usually was whatever colour he had been lying in - grass, poo, mud that sort of thing.
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Post by moirar on Jul 31, 2011 8:15:30 GMT
Been away wrestling photobucket - now have avatar and signature strip! Yes his sire was Grey and he will eventually be white! Little one will stay yellow dun as its a solid colour. Have worked with and then owned highlands for about 10 years now and the colour genetics/changes are interesting! The foals are often pink!
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Post by dalespony on Jul 31, 2011 18:39:13 GMT
Hello moirar, your ponies look lovely. I do like Highlands but have never owned one. My Dales are not dissimilar, I suppose, and colours are fascinating, aren't they? Rebel is a bay roan and changes colour all the time.
Laddie looks to be going well in his carriage. Are you going to join a club and take him out and about? Mel looks the right type to do well too. Do you have help training him, or do it all yourself?
Good luck.
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Post by happyhorsedriver on Jul 31, 2011 19:53:43 GMT
Hi and welcome to the forum your highlands look very smart and Laddie looks great in the vehicle, I'm very fond of the name Laddie my dales in my sig was Hieland Laddie ;D
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Post by moirar on Aug 1, 2011 9:41:58 GMT
Have had some driving lessons myself with Linda Swain. Have been breaking them mostly using Sallie Waldrond's fab book and help from my next door neighbours who have been driving for years and have recently converted to highlands! Got to meet Sallie a couple of weeks ago and she was lovely, signed my book for me and invited my over to visit, I was a bit awestruck! Having one or two minor steering issues with Laddie, he's been a ridden pony up till now and he is taking a while to learn to turn the carriage, he employs the typical highland evasions such as turing his head but body and carriage keep going in the direction of his choice not mine, napping to gate so can only turn it that direction etc. I broke him to ride and he was the same ridden til he understood the job and will still try it on when it suits. Little Mel is coming on nicely under saddle and we are trying to get him out and about hacking to improve his confidence before attempting to drive. Next hurdle is transport for pony and carriage so we can attempt a trip out.
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