My Mare Dewees
I named her after Dewees Island in South Carolina. She is out of my Holsteiner mare, Cabana, and by the Hanoverian stallion Dederick. This photo was taken a few years ago at Brightwood. I started Dewees under saddle with Dave Seay when she was 3 years old. She's now 15. I've taken her to a police horse clinic and some other clinics with Bill Scott, and others. I did have shoes on her when she was 3; continuously on her front feet, and occasionally on her hinds, to age 6. Even when I tried getting the farrier to put pads on her, she still was tender-footed. Thank goodness I learned about barefoot before the shoes had done more damage than they already did. She is still sometimes tender-footed on rocks but she is obviously landing heel first in this photo. The x-ray I had done of her left front showed she already had a ski tipped coffin bone when I started her barefoot transition. Her feet were really dead looking with black rotted frogs. She now has beautiful feet!
At a Peter Speckmeir clinic where she got very tired. Dewees does NOT like work!
Dewees in the snow
My sweet girl!
NEW! Fox hunting Jan 2010
Thank you to Caroline Young for this photo of Jayson and me at the joint meet with Moore Co. Hounds in Hoffman, NC. What a great picture! This was before the exhausting run after a grey fox and a coyote.
Dewees trim in May 2009
Liable
This is Dewees half-bro, Liable and Jayson getting ready to go for a romp in the snow. Liable has been a good back-up hunt horse, even though he gets his panties in a wad every once in a while. He is by Lantano II and is full Holsteiner at 16.2, he's a good boy.
Jayson on Corde and me on Liable Fox hunting.
Jayson whipping-in on Liable Thanksgiving day 2007
Corde
This is Corde, the baby brother of Dewees and Liable. He's huge, 17.3H 11 year old TBxHolsteiner. Jayson hunted him a few years and so did I, but he's almost too big a horse for me. He really didn't fill out until he was 9 years old. I started him at a Bryan Neubert colt starting in SC and rode 4 years with Greg Eliel's 4 day horsemanship clinics. This photo was taken at a joint meet with several hunts in So. Pines. by "Jump the Moon" photography. Jayson is up. We ran and jumped first flight for 4 hours! I rode Dewees.
Jayson On Corde cub hunting
He's such a good horse!
Corde as a baby. Awww he's so cute!
Corde at 4 years old after first SHP trim
Corde at 7 years old
Corde at 9 years old
Me on Corde in Aiken at Carolina's Master's hunt weekend 2009
Me riding Corde the day (june 9, 2008) I was supposed to have my total knee replacement. I later did have the knee done in Feb 2009
Jayson with Corde in our backyard pasture
Corde moves to Wisconsin
Corde sometimes suffered from anhydrosis, the inability to sweat. He started having this problem in the summer when it would get really hot for days on end. This year has been the worst so I was lucky to find a new owner in Northern Wisconsin. He will be missed. :-(
Taco
This is Billy's horse Taco, a Paso Fino gelding. And this is Billy with the phone growing out of his ear. Taco is a fast little guy but very smooth. This was a trail ride we went on near Pilot Mountain. Taco has very tough little feet. Billy rides him with a halter most of the time.
Taco's real name is Beechwood Alleque but he's the Tacolator!
Trimming Taco's Right Hind foot April 2008
Taco's LF in 2007
LF two years later
Interesting to me that in 2007, his toe was more square and the lateral walls were straight. Now the foot looks more round. I would like to see a fuller frog and wider heels. I was never able to get this foot to de-contract like I thought I would when I started but over-all the foot is healthier.
Jake to the rescue!
This is me holding an injured fawn riding Jake, a 20 yr. old Paso Fino. Jake is a gentleman but unfortunately, has DSLD. I bought him in the hopes that I could fix it with my trimming expertise but later found out he's too far gone. He does feel better than he did when I got him but his fetlock is as big as a softball and very dropped down. He is just the sweetest boy! I would give him away to a good home. I think he would be fine for a child on short rides.
Chapin
Photo taken before I got him.
This 15.3H 5 yr old TB gelding was in pretty bad shape when i got him from a friend in SC. His owner abandoned him so as not to pay the board and I picked him up so he wouldn't end up at the killers. He has turned into a nice horse. He would make a nice small lady's horse or a junior's horse. (see Horses For Sale, this site)
Chapin in 2008