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Permanents:
(horses who will live with me forever)
Mia
Mia is a 27 year old registered palomino appaloosa. I’ve owned her for 8 years in August, but have been riding her for 9 years as of February 14. She was the first horse I rode in lessons, and we ended up buying her because my trainer was moving and the barn she was at wasn’t sure if they’d get a new trainer in. She’s now retired, after giving me her all for 8 years of showing western pleasure and 7 years of barrel racing. She lives in the big pasture now with the other three horses, and the only reason she comes out is when she’s groomed and lightly lunged to keep her in shape.
Jazzy
Jazzy is a 14 year old grade thoroughbred who was given to my family. She’s technically my fathers horse, but I do almost all of the care for her. She has severe lameness issues that have been difficult to diagnose. Our farrier is hoping that he can help her without shoes, but that’s looking to not be a possibility due to her issues. Our current farrier is the only one we’ve found who will let him work on her back feet. My favorite moment with Jazzy was probably the day our farrier said “Her hooves are done, but don’t expect her to be running in circles anytime soon” and Jazzy immediately ran out of the run in he does hooves in and literally started running in circles.
Casanova
Casanova, mostly known as Cas (didn’t want to just straight up name him Castiel ..) is a yearling appaloosa colt. He is Mia’s great nephew on his dad’s side. His sire is TFW Lets Do It from Carousel Farm in Fulton, NY. I don’t have a completely solid plan for what discipline I’ll train him for, but I do know that he will eventually be able to do everything, from roping and working cows to competing in hunter jumper classes. Doing hunter jumpers was supposed to be what I did last year, but I wasn’t able to.
Temporaries
(horses who won’t always be with me)
Captain
Captain is a 12 year old OTTB. I’ve been leasing him since July 2022, but will probably unfortunately have to send him back in late August or early September due to me starting college, unless his owner says that I can take him with me. I’m planning on going to a college that is out of state and is about an hour further from his owner than I am. I competed him in English pleasure, western pleasure and barrel racing last year, but I think that was too big of a workload for him so I’m going to take it down to just English pleasure and barrel racing this year to see how he does.
Me!
(The human running this blog + caring for the horses!)
Hi! I’m Aspen, I’m 17 years old and I’ve been riding horses for nine years. I’ve cycled through a lot of horses to get where I am today. Last year was a rough year for me, since I was on a new horse and was still coming back from a bad fall on Jazzy from the year before. Normally I’m back in riding by March, April at the latest, but I wasn’t able to last year. I didn’t get to start riding again until July of last year when I got Captain.
College Plans:
I’m planning on attending Wilson College in PA, and majoring in Equine Studies. I want to bring at least Cas with me, but I’m kind of hoping that Captain’s owner will let me take him too so I can keep riding while I’m at school. Cas wouldn’t be able to be ridden until my junior year there, so for everything else I’d have to use a school horse.
