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 Omar at home *sigh* so hard to look at these pictures! This was after property was cleared-one spring only for all flowers |
 Working with Omar - he was alway free to go anywhere he wanted - I never used a whip w/ him- he would walk few steps like this |
 Jumping with Beloved Omar |
 Omar and me |
 Officially Omar wasn't mine at this time - see how skinny he was |
 Mom with Omar several years later after he got the needle on his hock |
 Grace and Omar |
 With Omar *sigh* I so miss him! He would bow on his own here I was making him stretch his back |
 Kea with Ekran - my first love |
 Me with Ekran - I loved that horse so much! He wasn't mine he was one of the riding school horses - we couldn't afford a horse |
 With Ekran - I loved that horse so much - |
 Riding teacher that I started with |
 Ekran...oh how I wanted to buy him...but as always no $$$ |
 Riding school sold these pictures of each horse we saved our allowance to get pic of each horse..still have them.. |
 Taking my lesson horse to the arena... we didn't care how we looked as long as we could ride... it wasn't about what to wear.. |
 One of my first riding lessons - don't you love my riding outfit - I still have the hat and whip |
 My head in clouds because I am on a horse - NO pony lessons for us! Kea is next to me.. |
 One of my first riding lessons - what heck do you do with these things? |
 Aren't I just styling? I was in heaven on riding days |
 I am smiling but hmmmm... posture? I should be riding a horse not sitting in lazy boy chair |
 Winter riding lesson - taking my lesson horse back to the barn |
 Fun winter horse activities - raising money for the riding school |
 Winter riding lesson - Kea on the gray horse getting ready for lesson |
 Oili riding this Russian breed horse that always threw off all his riders and took off his bridle and ran around all horses |
 Oili at our first show |
 Riding school barn - Kea and Oili are waiting for me - this was before my dad drove us to lessons when he was home full time |
 Another summer riding camp - this was more intense one - and SO MUCH FUN |
 In Finland at horse summer camp for jumping |
 Kea at the jumping camp |
 Here I am jumping in two direction at same time!!! |
 Last barn where I was - we took care of two harness race horses for a sea captain |
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 This is pure Finnish horse - they are like draft horse and little |
 One day the owner of these horses decided that we could ride this one...so saddle on and after few rounds... on we went... |
 After our move to FL...Oili bought the two horses and became a driver... |
 With Misty - first horse I took care of when we came to Florida from Finland |
 Jumping with Misty - she was Quarter Horse - |
 We used to ride all day - I guess we didn't believe in helmets.. I still have that bridle - well, most of it.. rats ate some :( |
 Dad and Mom with Misty - my parents have spent a lot of time with horses in my life |
 Dad playing with a horse - don't remember his name - he was one of the boarders where Misty was |
 With Misty - when we had to go to back to Finland for few weeks in 1981 - she stopped eating - I so wanted to buy her, but no $ |
 Sept 1980 first show in US with Misty - 4th place - I really didn't understand hunt seat |
 With Misty |
 December 1980 - second place - |
 With Missy's last foal |
 I took care of this little guy for years and was so upset when I wasn't first to ride him |
 My race horse period in FL - on right in black with my friend in blue - we must have coordinated with sweaters? |
 Race horse life - Pompano Beach - Finnish man owned the horses |
 Arabian horse period - this was Oscar |
 Learning how to ride - I loved that hat kept me warm and it was soooo stylish |
 Kea learning great balance on Ekran |
 Kea on the second horse |
 Lotta on third horse - Oili in background on her horse |
 Oili on her horse - her horse had wheels!! |
 Finally all horses are separated |
 Ekran |
 Horses ready for ride |
 Oili's horse - we rode this horse down the road crashing in the ditches |
 I think this is probably only pic with all of us together at Lotta's house and her two horses - she didn't live close to us |
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| Monte Dodge | 04-Sep-2009 01:32 | |