My last baby!

Hi All-

Been busy to blog and then i forgot my password. Oh well. But obviously i did remember it. Thank goodness i use the same passwords on alot of things. Anyhow, wanted to share with you pictures of my last foal. Destinee, born April 22, 2008. She was adopted by Cate and Dave in Madison. Cate just sent them to me this morning. The lesson that had is with Jodi Pursley of Pursley's Stable in Cross Plains. Pretty soon Jodi will have nothing but my rescue horses boarded there. They are a great stable, close to Madison. Right now, lets see, Cheyenne, Lady, Angie, Destinee are there. Jed is also there and he was actually a surrendered horse but never entered into my program. Lily was also there for a few years too until she was adopted by Jean in Deforest.
Destinee- She is out of my best mare Missy. She was an oops baby. Her sire is Gabe a PMU foal that i got from a girl who purchased him at an auction. Gabe is up in Sparta with Denise and her family. Destinee looks alot like Gabe. Missy is a bay and Gabe is sorrel. Gabe is an appendix quarter and Missy is a QH. So Destinee is 1/4 TB and the rest is QH. She looks like she got the best out of both horses. She is taller like a TB and has the build of a QH! She is a very special girl to me. Ok, so all of my horses are special to me! But we all love the babies dont we?
Destinee is getting trained right now and had her first saddle on her. Next year she should be ready to have a rider on her! She is spoiled girl and both me and Cate are the ones who spoil her! Every time I get to Jodi's, i go to give Destinee her scratches and lovin. She absolutely loves that. She wants to be boss of her group and at one time was. That was until Rosie and Dream came back to Jodi's- (They were there when Destinee came and then went to another stable and now back at Jodi's again!). Destinee was way too young to be a boss mare and she enjoyed every minute of it. But she is back in her place which is where she should be! She is getting taller and taller every day. i am hoping she will get to be 15.2-15.3 hands! Missy is 15 hands and Gabe is 16 hands. So it may happen. I think Cate would like to jump and do some dressage with Destinee. Destinee jumped alot of stuff when she was with me as a baby. Made me nervous, but it didnt make Destinee nervous. She was also a bigger foal for Missy and was the typical 'over the knee's' when she was young. We had a vet over as well and he thought she had a problem with her hip, but she was so young, that it never developed. So be sure to be careful on what your vet says when they are so young. Things can develop, some things may not. She is a wonderful girl. I also have her 1/2 sister, Prize. Now Prize is more like her mom Missy then her dad. Her sire was 16 hands but i am unsure how his shape was. He was black (brown) and so is Prize. But both mares are very sweet, you can touch them anywhere and are very agreeable in their training. Very laid back. While i miss Destinee very much, she is in very great hands with Cate and Dave. And Jodi is taking very good care of her at her farm as well. So here are pictures of Destinee and Prize. I must say that Prize was very upset with her mom when Missy cut her off when she knew she was pregnant. Yes, Prize did nurse on Missy until she was 3 years old! Kind of cool to see that Missy knew she couldnt nurse Prize anymore when she knew she was pregnant. But now that Destinee is gone, Prize has weasled her way back into Missy's life. Not nursing, but they eat, groom and stand together alot again.