Registered Tennessee Walker born April 21st,
2007. Please scroll down for her trail ride video.
Sophie is a beautiful butter milk buckskin with
a very thick long mane and tail. She is in training now and her under saddle
work is coming along great. She has been ridden on trails. She has no vices and
wants to please. She was bred to our Friesian stallion RAVEN April 16th, 2010,
confirmed in foal due March 26th, 2011. She is
a good sized mare will probably end up 15.3 or taller. She doesn't have a mean
bone in her body. Price in foal to Raven:
$4500.00
Pictures were taken September 9th, 2009
Sophie is in foal to Raven and was in training at Emily Ricketts. Pictures below
taken May 14th, 2010 enjoying Emily's lush pastures.
Update from Emily June 28th, 2010 below, don't they make a beautiful pair!
Hi Judy,
I took Sophie on a ride last night and she did awesome. I love her
wonderfully smooth gaits. We went across the highway and she didn't act
scared of the cars at all, of course the pasture goes up pretty close to it
so she has been well exposed to the fast moving cars. We didn't make it
across on the first try because she had to stop and check out the yellow
lines and then wouldn't go across them so we had to turn around because a
car was coming. The second time she marched right over them. Our neighbors
were having a singing so then we had to go down the road with a line of cars
on each side. She snorted at them a little bit and then decided that they
weren't very scary and went right through. She loves to do her fast running
walk and I love it too. We cantered a little bit too. When we got home she
was all hot and sweaty so I took her for a dip in the pond to cool off. Then
she was in such high spirits she was running in circles around me on the way
back to the pasture. I wished I had a camera with me when I let her loose.
She was so beautiful running with her tail held high and neck arched with
the very red sunset in the background. Oh well, it was probably to dark for
a good picture anyways. Then she would tear right up to me and put on the
breaks and stop right in front of me, hold her head up really high and snort
very loudly as if saying "Look at me... yes, I know I'm gorgeous!!" Her
ground manners are very good and she is very respectful while being led. She
totally impresses me every day how much we've bonded since she calmed down.
As far as the spookiness, that is almost gone. I think she must have been
pretty far out of her comfort zone when she first got here not having been
away from other horses or around goats or cows. She is catching on to riding
very quickly; she turns a lot easier than the first couple of times and
goes, speeds up and stops right on command. Thanks so much for letting me
have her for the summer. Emily
Video below made by Karin
Meister on one of her famous trail rides the Day Sophie came back to the
Horsemeister farm Aug 4th, 2010
