Wizard and his dork

 Aug 2009

 

 

Wizard gets leadership from

Karen Scholl

at the 2009

Four States Ag Expo

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Approach & Retreat Games (above), calm amidst chaos July 2007

Wizard in Nov. 2006  He spent the summer on a beautiful green pasture with apple trees and only one other young gelding, which enabled him to thrive and put on much-needed weight.  (Before that he had been expending all his energy pretending he was a stud because two other studs had been here, recently gelded.  Oh, the posturing!)  His chest has filled out and he has truly become a horse of substance.  While there, he developed a taste for apple treats, and apples.  He would eat from your hand, and came up to people in the corral for sniffs, but was still wary of being touched.

Left, our troublesome burrs have once again coagulated his forelock.

This is kind of a "before" picture, taken in early spring 2006, still scruffy with winter coat. By the time this was taken he had put on weight.  He was half-starved and very sick when we got him.

Mustangs at dinner, Jan. 2007

Wizard and Blue playing, May 2008
         - photo courtesy of Jennifer Mantrom