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Currently, I have ten. I live near lake Tenkiller

I could write a book about my horses. I’ll give the abridged version. Dont want to bore everyone.

It kind of started with my wife and I deciding to come back home for a simpler life. She has ridden English for most of her life, and she wanted to get back to her hobby. I just decided that I had enough of big cities and urban law enforcement.

So, we bought a farm that was formally used for breeding Shetland ponies, and brought in a couple of horses. Spent all of last year trail riding and getting used to the place. Had a blast.

We were always partial to Arabians, and found a registered half Arabian for sale and bought him. He turned out to be an excellent horse, and we have a lot of fun with him to this day.

Then we found a good Morab mare, with excellent lines, and bought her for a steal. After that, we found an Egyptian Arabian stallion out of state and brought him in. The the Morab mare gave birth to a filly last month ( she had been backbred to an Egyptian Arabian) and after all of this, the total was 4 Arabians, 2 QH, 1 Walker.

We decided to raise Arabians, Morabs, and half Arabians after that. We are still in the progress of getting started, and we dont intend to do it for a living. Instead, we want to raise them for the pure pleasure of it.

The draft horses are a different deal. We have three of them. Two mares and one filly. The mares are rescue projects.They were mistreated and almost criminally neglected when we got them. We rehabilitated them, doctored them, and returned them to health.One of them had a filly at her side, and we rehabilitated and doctored her too.Took almost 7 months to return them to health.

One they returned to health, we had to figure out something to do with them. They were so attached and bonded to us that we couldnt get rid of them, and we couldnt have done it if we tried.

One of the draft mares is goin out today to start training in dressage ( the goal is freestyle dressage). She is a beautiful animal, with great confirmation. She stands 18 1/5 hands tall, and my wife is in love with that horse. She intends to use her to compete.

We also decided to breed the drafts with thoroughbreds and raise the babies as prospective performance horses. So I guess the draft cross area is in the future.

Thats the story. Just one happy little horse farm here.