The horses have landed
Trainer and I got a text on Thursday morning - Happy St. Patty's Day and the horses have arrived to NY and unloaded nicely! And then we got pictures! It sounds silly but I was so relieved to finally get pictures of them during the shipping process. There was an irrational niggling in the back of my mind that we were just going to get two pencil drawings of horses with Horse 1 and Horse 2 on them. But they're in the States now. And they're real!
They're currently in quarantine and get released this weekend (hopefully). They don't arrive in Texas until next week but we're so ready for them.
So finally, some details about the horses, since I've been accused of keeping secrets. My horse (eeks!) is a four / coming five year old Zangersheide. He's the very tall one in the photos - they're both brown, go figure. He was bred in Belgium and his registered name is Dalton Van De Kaai Z. He's out of Da Vinci DC x Heli Van De Kaai Z (by Houston). Both dad (Holsteiner) and mom are competitive on the showjumper circuit in Europe. He's been brought along slowly - a lot of flatwork and trail - and we intend to keep his development slow to let him fill out his HUGE body. He looks like an absolute sweetheart with lots of try over the fences, which he makes look small because of his size. In anticipation, I've dug out all my old "warmblood size" tack that I had used for Ryon and kept. Thank god for tack hoarding, right?
Trainer's horse - so cute |
Eeeeeee so exciting!!! 🤩🤩🤩
ReplyDeleteI did a happy dance when I got the photos lol
Deletecongratulations!!! i have such a soft spot for those big handsome bays <3 <3
ReplyDeleteThanks! All of my horses so far have been bays (it's getting to be a sickness)
DeleteCongrats on the new horses, Ruth! Wooooo! I don't know much about horses and riding but I love reading your updates:) LOLZ on the pencil drawings...that would have been funny if you got that instead of pics...hehe
ReplyDeleteI was slightly terrified that that's what we were going to get LOL
DeleteSo exciting.
ReplyDeleteIt's been a wild ride!
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