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 Filly born at the farm summer of 2014, now she is a year old.  I will post updated photos of her.  Naughty by Night is her mom.  The filly's name is Naughty.  Actually she is for sale :-(  I don't want to see her go.. she's very sweet.  
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Two horses that love one another and get along so well.  Knightly is retired OTTB and Mock is a 10 year old TB off the track as well.  They are turned out 24/7/365.  
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Here is my beautiful boy in the snow this past winter.  2015_ February. 

Horses and Tulips.

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Posted by Anna Blake on April 3, 2015 at 9:27am View Blog At some distant moment in the past, probably after seeing The Miracle of the White Stallions when I was a kid, I found out that Spanish horses were started at 4 years old. Back then, I thought it was a terrible waste. Then a few years ago, I was at a nutritional seminar where the conversation turned to options to prepare long yearlings to start under saddle. And I thought the same thing–what a terrible waste. Then this week I read an article that said the optimal time to start a horse was 7 years old, the age a horse has fully grown. So it goes, the horse world is not short on opinion. I don’t want to start a debate about who’s right, what I notice is that horse lovers disagree from the start. We disagree on everything from age to training style to the right tack to use. Then we probably get defensive about it. We compare the worst Dressage rider to the best Reiner, or the best Eventer with the worst Endura