Gypsy

Statistics

  • Registered name: Trinity’s Gypsy Moon
  • Height: 14.2 hh
  • Weight: 1100 (too fat, always!)
  • Color: Tobiano pinto
  • Year of birth: 1993
  • BLM freezebrand: 93541167
  • Origin: Trinity Range, Nevada
  • Breed Registry: American Mustang and Burro Association

 

Beginnings

Gypsy and I have been a team since 2002. After over 30 years out of the saddle, I decided to get back into horses and found this cute little BLM mustang through a friend. I brought her down from Oregon to our ranch in California on Halloween day, and started right away riding her on roads and trails around the ranch.

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Pokani

Statistics

  • Registered name: Pokani
  • Height: 17 hh
  • Color: Dark bay
  • Date of Birth: May 11, 2005
  • Breed: Trakehner/Saddlebred
  • Breeder: Gateway Farms, Acampo, CA
  • Breed Registry: American Trakehner Association

 

In the fall of 2007, I set out to find a horse more suitable for dressage. My dressage trainer recommended an older horse trained to Second or Third Level, and I did consider several of those, but not only were they expensive, they had lived in stalls and been shod their whole lives. (For more on this, see Horsekeeping.) I was reluctant to bring a “hothouse flower” out to rough country and expect him to survive. 

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Toby

Statistics

  • Height: 15.2 hh                  
  • Color: Bay                                                                                          
  • Year of Birth: 1988                                                                   
  • Breed: Quarter Horse

 

 

 

As soon as I got Gypsy, we started looking for a second horse.

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Rocky

Statistics

  • Registered name: Rojo Cerro Risco
  • Height: 14.3 hh
  • Color: Chestnut
  • Year of Birth: 2002
  • BLM Freezebrand: 02216036
  • Origin: Twin Peaks, California HMA
  • Breed Registry: American Mustang and Burro Association

 

Last but not least is my nine-year-old mustang Rocky. He came to me by way of some neighbors who were involved in re-homing him from his previous owner who could no longer afford to keep him.

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Horsekeeping

Essentials

  • Home: Red Mountain Ranch
  • Location: Del Puerto Canyon, Ca
  • Horses live in a group on large acreage
  • Native pasture and grass hay feed
  • Barefoot hoof care
  • Worming based on fecal counts

 

When I got into horses in 2002, I hadn’t thought much about my philosophy of horsekeeping.

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