Cute, or Cutest Ever?

Seriously:

Makes my day every time she does it! It has been SO COLD, and I think she's loving it. Today the high was 31 and the low of 7. Jeeze. At least its sunny I guess?? But all this cold has her fresher than I've ever seen her. It's hilarious. She actually has a hell of a buck, which is good in my book...you know what they say, good buckers make good jumpers!!

I've been doing a ton of work with Svenna, both low pressure bareback and trail rides as well as pushing her in the arena. We had a bit of a discussion today about her responsiveness level, and by the end she was MUCH sharper on the aids. Lots and lots of walk-trot-halt-back transitions helped to soften her in the bridle and take more weight behind. Hopefully it sticks and we can have a quick easy no fuss ride tomorrow. I'm a big believer in the get what you want and get off, but today I really made her huff and puff!

Also I finally set up a time to meet Svenna's old mommy...I'm really excited, and I have a lot of questions for her!

Svenna's Beautiful Mommy!

For anyone who is interested I have done some digging about Svenna's breeding (certainly not a procrastination tactic with a big o-chem final on Monday....) and found some interesting stuff.
Her momma (owned by Willow's Edge Farm, which has some super horses). She is supposedly the smallest Fjord in the world, at only 12.2! I'm lucky that Svenna turned out so "big", if 14.2 can be called big.

I don't know much about her daddy and the website has only one pic of him. He looks to be the very heavy big and tall drafty type. He comes from what appears to be a super traditional fjord breeding program South Dakota.

Finally I found her registration baby pics! She was such a precious baby horse. Really. Look how spunky and adorable! I cannot get enough, I think I am totally hooked on Fjords. I can't wait to take Svenna to the Libby, Montana "Nordic Fest" Fjord show to get her inspected. It happens in September, so we've got a long wait. Washington state has more Fjords than any other state (supposedly. A Fjord breeder her told) so I am keeping my eye out for Fjordy events in the area between now an then.