Well hello all! I thought that it was well and truly time that I enter this thread being the extremely proud owner of no less than 5 Standardbreds! Maybe a little intro wouldn't hurt, hopefully I don't bore you all though

I'll go in order of joining my herd I think

Here is my old girl Lilly, only old in her mind and in her "what I say goes" priciples. She is the granny of my herd and keeps the youngers in line since proving that she is darn terrible to ride! For the bloodline followers her name is Lady Echelon




Then Ranger came...my wonderful standy riding horse, gave me back my confidence and he will never be far from me for the rest of his life His name is Trouble A'Blazin!





Then comes Ted, who's name is "Here Goes Ted" Stunning young trotter who is a bit nervy but quickly coming around.





Next, Chillie. He is 11 months old and a gelding by Snow Brave...and yes...I feel very lucky to have him A sweet little fellow that I know will grow into a very handsome horse!




And the youngest member, Bee is an 8 month old filly with the heart and soul of an angel. She is just one of those horses that hugs you so tightly with her love and trust that all you can do is love her back She'll be huge!!! She's more than half way up Ranger's 16hh body







Meet my standies

That's all...just a big fat brag...

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Thought I would pop down here and say hello!

Earlier this year I was given Tower as agistment payment. There was a lot of ho-ha on here when he was for sale.
Anyway Tower now has a forever home with me and has stolen my boyfriend's heart! He is absolutely in love with him! They are in love with each other!

Tower started as your typical STB. Didn't know where his legs were going at any given time! The time I have spent doing groundwork with him has been insane! He is coming along in leaps and bounds!

And about a month or two ago I discovered a lump on the end of his willy. Was diagnosed by the vet as a tumor on his urethra, and he may down the track need an operation to remove this tumor. At the moment though that the vet decided to hold off on the operation as the surgery is very invasive.

Well sorry for the essay, but now with a photo! Tower can now trot, and is beginning his 3 beat canter!

I am so proud of him and I wouldn't pass him up for any other horse in the world!

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This was our SB mare Minnie that we had back in NZ.

She was a trotter, and never raced only trialed. OH rode her and we did drive her a bit but never got to grips with her brakes!!! We loved her anyway. She went to live with our old neigbours (Pony club and SB people) and placed third in her first one day event! She placed inhand in SB classes in NZ with us.

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[Updated on: Sun, 23 October 2011 18:04]

I love seeing all your gorgeous standies! Gives me hope. I finally got another nice photo of my mare she is very pretty but it doesnt seem to translate through photos. I want to get her into harness but i cant seem to get any for her. If any one knows anyone who can help it would be greatly appreciated!!!

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[Updated on: Sun, 27 November 2011 11:21]

A little brag - Byethelot at his first show, Echuca Aggi, Reserve Champion Led Male Standardbred





Absolutely stoked

[Updated on: Sun, 13 November 2011 11:12]

This is our newish SB.

He came from friends who had him since a weanling and trained him to saddle (very green) and tried him as a trotter but he came last in 6 trials so he came to live with us unexpectably.

He is so laid back and a complete duffus.

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Ohh i have a standard bred he is Freeeken hilarious, Ex trotter and Ex pacer and now broken to saddle hehehe lets say he is a bit of a mess but my gawd i have never had a horse that is willing to please as much as mr. Red. he has been left in the paddock for over 2 years now so i thought i would start bringing him back into work. he goes in a little frame and tranters around what i call it haha (trot/canter) threw a leg over him the other day and he was perfect, shied at a few scary things but they were things like lawn mowers that were going past him so very impressed with the beast haha

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HI all I thought I joined this one ages ago but I'll reintroduce.
I have 1 standy name is Max. His a big loveable dope!
He is my saftey horse do anything on etc
Except 11 weeks ago I feel off and broke my leg, wasent his fault . I'm still a few weeks off riding again but we will get there. Although sneaked a ride a week ago.

My question to all standy people is how has you improved the trot/canter transistion. I was asking for canter when he triped and I fell. He gets it after a while but we have been working on it for months previous and still was all over the shop.
Any just cause his a dope here is a pic broken leg and all he is still a tropper who puts up with me.

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[Updated on: Wed, 23 November 2011 12:00]

okay so i got told by a friend about standy shows and i was wondering what exactly it involved???
i have never done showing before and i highly doubt that my horse has either but sounds perfect for us!!!
1stly do you need registered papers to enter? i know you need them for normal showing and im assuming that the same rules apply but just wanted to double check

2ndly my friend said that scarring doesnt matter and i want to know if this is true of standy shows because, the smart horse that she is, decided to run into a star picket when she was younger
ill attatch a pic cause it is quite funny but she is still gorgeous!

and thirdly how often do they come up and how do you find out about them???

I am completely new to this side of horses so any help would be greatly appreciated



if you look at the little bit of white above her muzzle you can kinda see the scar it is kinda arrow shapped in this but i real life it is actually in the shape of the star pickets



and me riding her bareback cause shes awesome


if she was working like in the bareback picture(i know my position isnt fab i am bareback keep in mind) would she do ok???

Thanks vichorsians

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[Updated on: Sat, 17 March 2012 04:05]

Hi all,

Thought I would share a couple of photos from Kilmore Ag.

This was both my sister and my first time (and our horses first show) in the Standy ring

It was so nice to see all those standies gleaming in the sun

Anyway our morning was a mess, we were up at 5.00am washing plaiting etc then we had to walk to the show (my float isn't ready yet), eventually got there after our 3.3km walk

So after fussing around with reapplying make up etc horses are ready, and we are not! quickly get changed and run over to our first class, unfortunately we were to late (thankfully as everyone looked beautifully dressed and we were less than desirable, but horses looked great )

So we ended up doing our led height classes

We werent expecting anything as the some of the quality of standies were very good but I did end up with a second my sister didn't get anywhere but all the same ribbon or not we were happy with our horses (except for mine which kept neighing )

Soooooooo we then started our walk home ha ha ha.

Look forward to some more standie shows that is for sure

Incase you are wondering, my boy was for sale on here about 1 month ago (previously my other sisters horse) but after getting him back into somework he was to good for me to pass up so instead of selling him for her I ended up with one more he he he.

Gold Dream




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Thanks and hope to see you all out there

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[Updated on: Thu, 29 December 2011 08:10]

Just thought that I would share a photo of Miss 14 taken the other night I think it is the best photo I have ever taken.

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[Updated on: Tue, 17 January 2012 18:36]

Just thought I better pop my head in here and say Hi... so Hi

I am now standy-equipped, thanks to the lovely kokobene allowing me to purchase the handsome spunk Cruise! (mind you its a couple months I've had him now! )


Cruise smiling for the camera...

[Updated on: Sat, 28 January 2012 12:16]