Our first picture thread – cutest old horse ever?
Sep 01 2009
Now that we can post pictures to the comments (WordPress doesn’t have the same silly restrictions as Blogger, one big reason I moved the site), let’s have a picture thread. Today I want to see the CUTEST old horses in America! I bet my readers own a lot of them so post your pics and let’s see!
ETA: wordpress for some VERY odd reason I can’t find is only letting admins use HTML. I am working on it. In the meantime, post your direct link (starting with http) and I will edit.
The cutest old horse I have ever owned was Kit Cluesive, who has been gone a year now. If I could have bought her a new leg, I would have. Look at the face! Who would not want to kiss that face? It got kissed a lot.
Now show me your oldies and all the noses that get kissed daily!
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Dusty (registered name “Ima Cute Lad”), a month away from turning 26. This was in March 2009, I’d already had to clip him a bit, and now was resorting to a shop-vac in an effort to deal with the yak hair.
The kissable nose:
If that doesn’t work, a link: Dusty’s nose
I always said when he was shedding out that I got enough hair off him to make a whole other animal every time I brushed him. This past year, I used the hair I vaccuumed off to prove it… it’s documented here, in the album that photo comes from: The shop vac experiment
This thread is awesome. So many beautiful horses. Halternhunters, I have to tell you, Chick is my kind of horse. I would totally drag that one home!
This is my all time favorite thread! I have never seen so many good looking horses. It is a blessing to know that my 19 year old mare could possibly live to be 40…..Then I would be 70!!! Goodness! There are so many older horses that look great, including my gal, Honey.
I wish I knew how to add a link or a photo.
If you have a photo uploaded so that you can bring it up in your browser, just copy the address here. I’ll make it “show up” if I can.
OK trying again…Jewel aged 19, pulling her surrey..and Kate, aged 19, Belgian.
And..will try one other. This with the image codes.
First Kate, then Jewel.
Let’s try again.
Me and my 25 year old Fudge
Ah well…third time’s the charm, right? This is part of working the kinks out of a new site….Fugly, you’re being a great sport about that part
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This time I’ll just post the link without the code…this is my 21 year old Standardbred (Tyler C). I’ve had him for 18 years.
Love, love, love all these oldies!
Here is my girl Shadow, 23 yr old TWH. I was there when she was born, I’ll have her to the end. Still a fun ride, we are doing our first OPRC Rally on Sunday.
Here is my daughter’s horse Coconut 20-something QHx saint.
This is what these horses put up with..
I guess I’m one who messed up when I tried to post this last night. Here’s the url to the direct link.
This is Tangiers & Puffy. I lost Tangiers last year (he was 19) & lost Puffy to the tainted pet food 2 years ago. It’s one of my favorite pics.
He’s 29 this year. Coolest horse I’ve ever known.
waaah, I didn’t see mine. Let’s try this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitewolfe/sets/72157600134499882/detail/
or this: flickr photos
Awesome Morgan mare I had as a youth. All of the pictures shown, she was somewhere between 21 and 26.
Twenty-five this year. Not so sound anymore, but still loves his trail rides. He was one of the first, if not THE first horses to have his own website, way back in 1995. He had a fan club, back in the day, has a trading card, has been written about in several books and was the first non-pony of one of the up and coming international dressage riders in the US.
hi,
Here is the link to a pic of my boy Sage, age 32. Sage was rescued by Another Chance 4 Horses from the KB at the New Holland, PA auction. His feet were bad, he had foundered from poor hoof care but his teeth were the worst thing. While they were worn to nubs in spots, there were also horrible points and hooks. He had a huge laceration on his tongue and numerous cuts on the inside of his cheeks. He came here in Dec 07. In June of 08 he suffered a stroke. We were there. One minute he was fine, the next he went down. After the stroke he lost several hundred pounds in a couple of weeks. Sage is a healthy and happy horse these days. When he came here he was not too sure about kisses but now he is happy to get his daily hugs and smooches!
Ok, I am trying this one last time with my direct links to photobucket in hopes that Cathy can save me.
There are our oldies….
Angie – 29 yr old AQHA mare, my daughter’s first real HJ – a point and shoot. She has some navicular issues and has been retired for the past 8 yrs…but in her day, she was sure fun to ride…now she just gets cookies, pets and scratches…
This was my AQHA mare, Dans Melody Bars, “Mel”. She is 32 in this picture, 35 when we finally said goodbye 2 yrs ago. I miss her everyday…
And this is Nick, “St. Nick”…..he’s in his very late 20s, a POA. He has raised more kids than he wants to remember, rides and drives like a Cadillac, he is currently babysitting 4 little grandkids….
I really think this is my all time fave post Cathy….these pics and stories are so much fun and so inspiring…especially against all the negative we see…..
JustJumpIt20:
Do you happen to live outside of adrossan?? I swear that horse is identical to one I drove past every day on my way to work for the longest time
FYI, he’s adorable
if you do, shoot me an email at abarron@live.ca
I have 2 oldie goldies –
This is Luah my 30 Y/O Arabian mare who is still quite a spitfire.
This is Chixie a 28 Y/O Appaloosa mare that ,y youngest is in love with. She is still very spritied too.
I have 2 oldie goldies –
This is Luah my 30 Y/O Arabian mare who is still quite a spitfire.
This is Chixie a 28 Y/O Appaloosa mare that ,y youngest is in love with. She is still very spritied too.
This isn’t my horse – however, he belongs to a very good friend of mine and I have shown him (years ago) and still ride him when she goes away. He is a 19 yo Westphalian/TB – he is officially retired from ring work but has turned into a great hack horse due to a hind suspensory injury.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1334755&l=8ec6faf520&id=882590091
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1334759&l=0d503cd65c&id=882590091
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1334765&l=a93c9aa5c0&id=882590091
Apparently I wasn’t paying attention when I posted the 2nd half of my pics and repeated the same pic 3x’s— clearly I’m losing braincells a lot faster than I originally thought– let me try again
19 yr old Morab gelding- not as old as most but I’ve had him 13 years so far so it seems like he’s a oldie to me
best post !!!
I think we all need to see this sort of thing to keep our spirits up. There are days we all feel like our heads are exploding from all the bad ownership…now you can come back to this thread and see all the happy, fat oldies whenever you need to.
If your pics didn’t come through, repost the direct link and I’ll fix them manually. I don’t mind a bit. It’s fun to see them!
I have a soft spot for the old horses. They are the ones that gave us the most love and enjoyment in our lives and its our duty to make sure they spend their golden year as happy as they can be! I have a rescued old (prehistoric is what the vet called her) sweet sweet sweet palomino mare. We got her when she was going to be put through an auction again because the owner couldn’t get weight on her.(bad excuse) She coliced and almost died a month after we got her. She pulled through now she has put on a lot of weight and is recovering very nicely only 5 months later. She not a bag of bones anymore shes a little diamond. Only God know what breed she is but she is in a happy place now getting groomed and loved by family especially by my 6 year old daughter. By the way her name is Lady Bug. Hopefully i can get the pics to work. Before and current pics.
Heres Lady bugs pics..I couldnt get them to work before.
Before:
After:
Great rehab job! She looks about a million times better.
This is Spud – he’s on the downhill slide to 30 years old and he’s the BEST, crotchety old horse I’ve ever had the good fortune to know.
Love this post
I need to go get some new and updated pictures of my 2 oldies and then try to figure out how to get them on here lol Dannyboy my old man and swayback 
should be around early 30′s and Happy Appy should be around mid-late 20′s and yep they are my beautiful fuglies. I will try to get pics this weekend.
Sorry – hav’t figured out how to post a pic.
the link is here.
I’m really surprised at what people are calling “old” – 14? old? Prime if you ask me, but I suppose it depends on how hard they were used, etc. Here is a photo of our Marda at age 22. She is now 27 and retired. Marda is a registered Half-Arab. I’ve owned her since she was 4, and trained her myself.
Spud gets brownie points for one of the cutest names, too!
okay — let me try that again:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21642156@N06/3886414947/
This has truly been a wonderful post. What a relief to know there are still a lot of caring owners out there. The photos have been great and very heart warming!
One last time!!!
Smokey! Last spring at 25, living the good life of retirement. Bossing babies around and going on the occasional trail ride. I looove him.
I am so glad you have put up this celebration page of the awesome golden oldies up and it is proof that just because they are Aged does not mean they do not have anything good to give any longer
I know you said American horses, but couldn’t help myself Fuglyhorse, this is our boy Pepper, came to us October 2006, broken down and worn out, but something said hang in there and give him time. I am so glad I did, he is a Mothers Dream, a Confidence Booster, after 2 years of careful hoof management and sensible riding he is now sound, my 11 y.o can trott, canter and put him over cavelleti’s we have gone to a few Sports Days where we took home ribbons, last weekend we went off to the the river and it was wonderful watching these two swim and have a ball, he is also very level headed and is the nanny in the paddock to the younger horses, especially when the dingoes, wild pigs etc are about
Age is no barrier and these older horses have so much to give us all, he even saw me get back into the saddle after a bad spill some years before “cheers to the older horse”
Oh my goodness… your horse is gorgeous. Reminds me of the mare if learned to ride on.
RSF Hawkeye – 17 h Morgan born 1980. He was a special horse and I was his forever home. Colic took him Valentines Day 2009. My heart breaks even now….. Fare well Old friend….. I miss you so.
Hope this works…
My old mare Penny, she is (I was told) QHxAppy and is now 28 y/o.
And in her winter woolies. I LOVE this picture!
Ah, didn’t work I’ll try something different…
This is Annie. She is barely tall enough to be called a horse, has a sway-back like crazy, and it the sweetest old lady I’ve ever met. She lives at a girls’ camp and is well loved by just about everyone working in the barn. She’s about 28, but being a camp horse we have little idea where she came from, let alone an exact age.
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d65/llewllynn/LindenHorses005.jpg
This is Anj. She will be 18 years old this spring. If you have seen her, please let me know. timmersliza@hotmail.com
http://ltimmers.smugmug.com/Photography/Annjewleek/11233599_YR8W9#787804153_DVV2p