OTTB Charm

I saw this particular blog hop from  the900facebookpony  who got it from hellomylivia . I found it to be a pretty interesting topic, as I noticed from both of them that their own horses had a pretty significant number of the qualities from their "perfect horse". As I thought about it, I realized that a lot of my "perfect horse" qualities mirror Charmer's too. It's kind of a chicken or the egg thing. Not sure if I wanted these particular qualities in the first place, and that is why Charmer has stuck around this long, or if Charmer made me really love and value his particular qualities. 1. Color and Size Right off the bat though, I can tell you one thing that I would hands down have in my dream horse. Chrome . Doesn't have to be anything massive, but like a sock, or a snip or blaze or something ! Fake chrome I pretend he has chrome by putting white boots on him but it is not quite the same. Now I have accepted Charmer's lack of white, and a

This weekend I attended another local horse show with Charmer. I've been riding him at home, but we don't have any jumps (yet). But even with that being said, when we jump he has been doing really, really well! So I decided to be a little extra brave when signing up and enter him in 2'6" and 2'9", as well as our first ever 2'6" derby for fun. From our 2'6" round. New favorite photo For him, basically every time he has walked off the trailer lately, he just marches right off, looks around a little, screams a few times, and then just eats hay with zero drama. It is so nice I have never had a horse that will just do that. I can leave him tied at the trailer for hours at a show and feel confident he will still be there when I return. This show was no different. He took his look around and then settled right in at the trailer. I wandered around the show all morning talking to people and taking lots and lots of photos. Our first class of