June 25, 2021

Leo has arrived!

Meet Leo (Leopold), my future dressage partner! I am beyond excited ❤️ After a 21 hour haul, he walked off the shippers big rig calm and happy. He has such a sweet eye, and nice disposition. I am so pleased and can't wait to get out to the barn tomorrow to spend more time with him!

June 17, 2021

Name Suggestions Needed!

Baby horse needs a new name!

I am not wild about baby horse's current registered name. I can tell the seller put a lot of thought into his registered name based on his pedigree, and I appreciate that, but again I'm not wild about it. So I am planning to change it or at least simply show him under a different name and notify the registry.

Here is his pedigree:


I am still debating names and will wait to finalize my decision until baby horse arrives and I see him in person. The Danish Warmblood registry does not have a naming convention, so from their end anything goes. However, Oak Hill had a tradition of naming the foals starting with the first letter of the Dam's name so I'd like to stick with that. I do have one name in mind, but I'd love to hear other ideas. Baby horse's brothers are named Lager and and Legion. If you have any good one word "L" name ideas, I am open for suggestions!

-Renee
Wishing you Happy Trails and Swooshing Tails!

June 12, 2021

Baby horse is coming home!

The vet check on Monday went well, and baby horse's temp was normal and they issued him a health certificate, and I finalized the purchase!

Without further adieu, meet my new horse and future dressage partner:

What is he?

He is a Danish Warmblood, bred by Oak Hill Ranch. He's by Sir Gregory out of a really nice Furstenball x Rambo mare that my trainers best friend used to own when she was head trainer at Oak Hill. They sold the Dam while baby horse was in utero in 2019, when the owner of Oak Hill, who's in his 80's, decided to retire.

Given that this was a remote purchase, it was very comforting that everyone in my bubble knew the Dam, her movement and temperament. Also, it helped to know that he has a full brother, Lager, from the year before who is very nice. 

He's a yearling gelding (2020) and currently stands 15.2hh, so I expect he'll mature 16.2-17hh, and hopefully not bigger! He's really leggy at the moment, so he's definitely going to be tall. He's solid black with the star and stripe plus snip. I love to look of white socks, but I am very stoked to not have to clean them on show mornings!

More waiting...

Now I wait a couple more week for him to get picked up and transported to Montana. He should be here June 25!

-Renee
Wishing you Happy Trails and Swooshing Tails!

June 3, 2021

PPE was a success!...mostly

Baby Horse's pre-purchase exam was last Friday. As basic physical exams go, all was well. He's a healthy happy flexible little guy, and there was nothing that indicated anything to prevent him from being able to physically have the potential to achieve my dressage goals in the future. All good, right?

Not so fast...

Despite looking and acting 100% healthy, he had a fever of 103. Normal body temperature for a horse is 101.5. He had no other symptoms, not even swollen lymph nodes. So where does this leave us? After talking to the PPE vet, my vet, and my trainer, the consensus was that most likely he was having an immune reaction to being exposed to something he's been vaccinated against (due to lack of any other symptoms). Like children, baby horses often get sick and we don't necessarily know it because we don't randomly take our healthy looking horses temperatures. Not a big deal in all reality.

The plan moving forward was to have the seller take his temp every day, and once it was normal for three days in a row, call the vet in to officially take his temp and then issue the Health Certificate (needed to transport a horse to Montana). That is were we are at now. His temp is back to normal and now we wait for the vet appointment, which is scheduled this coming Monday.

Given that everything else during the PPE looked fine, I have signed a bill of sales pending the health certificate, and once he is in the clear, funds will be exchanged and he will officially be mine. At that point I'll put my superstitions to the side and post photos and tell you all about him!

-Renee
Wishing you Happy Trails and Swooshing Tails!

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