Hi everybody, I'm Wynn Currie and Gimme A Dream is one of my horses, a 9 year-old, 17hh Hanoverian gelding. I have two others, a 16hh Standardbred filly named Frilly (Woodmere Frilifili) and a 9 year-old, 15hh Canadian mare called Willow Breeze or Minority.

We live on the islands where there are 300 square km of rolling sandy beaches to ride on and warm salty lagoons to swim in. Our home borders one of Canada's National Reserves, so we have loads of forest trails, marshlands and moors to peak our interest in wildlife.

I'll be in and out quite often to read up on what everyone as to say, and I will probably add a thing or two also.

Wynn

Welcome to HCC! Geeze, I'm very jealous, the only place to ride around the farm is thru bean fields!lol

Yes the islands are a great place for hack riding horses. It is pure agony to get to a horse show though. It is a five hour sail at best and at least a three hour drive, to get to the nearest civil center. I'm sending my Canadian mare over for breeding this year, I think. I hear there is a Canadian stallion in the region.

My filly might end up a show horse. She westerns naturally, which is unusual for a track-trained Standardbred. But I'm going to try her English this year, just to see what she wants to do.

HI,
Glad your here.
Just need to know-How are the Winters.

The month of January we had record lows for us. But because we have a maritime temperature, the thermostat really didn't go that low. Our temperatures didn't reach 0 degrees F. We had a lot of snow this year, hundreds of times more then normal.

Normally our winters are about 32 degrees F and very little snow. The forest trails are great for riding all year but the beaches starts to thaw in April, so for about a month I don't ride there.

We don't normally have the weather that the rest of Canada and the northern and mid-western States gets. Our summers though are relatively cool in comparison to yours.

Hello!! Welcome to HCC! So glad you joined and hope you stick around, we have a great forum. If you can, post us some pictures of your 4-legged friends, everyone would love to see!!

Hope to hear from you soon

oh my goodness, JeneJen, I'm from north central Indiana. What a coinsedence!

Gimme A Dream, I am so very jelous of you too. My brother and I ride quite a bit around here in the woods and whatnot, and there are some goreous places over in Ohio, where my boyfriend lives....but i've never rode on sand. (unless it was in an arena haha)

My niece, cousin and I took the horses out to the big beach for a first of the season run. Twenty-three miles of nothing but sand. I was on Frilly and it was her first time with someone on her back. She was so excited, she shook!

Last fall she got her first look at the ocean and she spooked. This year, she screamed and run after a cousin when she went for a walk along the water's edge. The filly was very upset, because in her mind Marilyn was in danger, I think. She stayed under control but she kept screaming as she trotted toward the ocean and Marilyn. I can only assume that she was telling Marilyn to come back. She quickly forgot all about Marilyn though when the girl turned and went up over a sand hill.

The big gelding, Gimme A Dream bucked and reared with my niece but since she knew the big guy well (I bought him from her) and she has loads of experience, she was fine. But I think his aggressive behaviour disturbed her. She said he had never behaved so badly with her. I give all my horses as much a sense of freedom as possible. He blossomed into a semi alpha.

Willow Breeze (Canadian mare) was her normal quiet self, I think. I was really too busy keeping my eyes between Frilly's ears to notice. Anyway, the cousin on her didn't complain any, lol!

Gimme A Dream is a 17hh, 9 year old Hanoverian gelding. This picture was taken last winter sporting his new baling twine bitless bridle.

This picture is of Frilly (Woodmere Frilifili) a four-year-old, 16hh, Standardbred mare wear her handmade bitless bridle and an English saddle. She has no reins because earlier I had been demonstrating to a class how to ride using leg pressure only.

This is Willow Breeze or Minority depending on the language used. Willow is a 9 year old, 15hh, French Canadian Mare. Here she has on her new bitless bridle. Willow refused to use a bit after I tried her with Frilly's bitless bridle for about 15 minutes.