The beautiful rider is Sophie and her big bay mare Tootsie 💗 riding with Rita Brown today
Another Rita Brown clinic in the books! Everyone had some terrific moments of learning and development. It was a great but chilly day 🥶. As always, not enough pictures and video but I did catch Jill Dumont on Miss Diva working on her canter. She’s really coming along so nicely for a green bean! 💚🫛
I know I post a lot about the horses getting massages but it’s just my favorite 🥰
Today Lisa Hern-Silvester gave Diva her first massage. Diva wasn’t sure that anyone should be touching her hammies like that but then she realized it felt ok so she let her 🙃
Thank you Lisa!
Left the farm today to ride the DTR Manchester Water Works Fall Fundraiser Ride. What a great group and the trail itself was great. 8 miles on wide paths. Best part was that ALL dogs we passed WERE ON A LEASH 🥳 Such a relief. It’s very stressful to be on a horse and have a loose dog run up. Anyway, I will definitely do that one again next year!
Rosie is my beautiful mare who was retired at age 8 due to some arthritic changes in her cervical spine. Heartbreaking. She will live out her years with me as a pasture puff companion mare. I don’t like to anthropomorphize horses (since is horsewomen do that far too much) HOWEVER… Rosie seems to get very jealous of my other personal mares since they are in work and therefore get more attention. Lately, she has been even more expressive with making faces and pawing in her stall when I am grooming or tacking up my other mares in the evenings. So, this week I decided to do more liberty and trick training with her for fun. She LOVES it! She’s a quick processor and gobbles up treats which is making it a quick endeavor! Such a fun girl to work with even if there is no “goal” to reach for 😉
Massage time with Lisa… Lolo was 🤤
Retired saddlebred Freddy enjoying evening 🌅
Snow days ❄️
The boys are enjoying playing in this snow ❄️ took my mare out for a quiet walk outside until she decided she’d like to have a roll in the fresh snow with me still on 😜 Silly mare! (No video of that!)
Merry Christmas from all the fuzzy winter ponies at Baystone Farm 🎄♥️
(Thank you to Smita photographer extraordinaire and Kaitlin for helping hold ponies while I jumped around like a clown trying to get pony ears forward and lookin cute!)
Pampering day for retired mare Callie! Her owners want her living the retired life of luxury and she is! 😇
Thank you Lisa for the pony massages today!