#KWPN

[horsesarecreatures]

Dutch Warmblood Mare Meggie

[artequestre]

Taloubet Z (Galoubet A x Polydor)

[echointernationaljumpers]

HACK

Lauren's POV

Just a picture from a small hack with Tanya, Tanzeln and his son Tatendrang. I myself was riding Toémme, but as I took the picture we are not in it (and yes we have wild horses in the background xD).

[mapleesimsss]

Meet Evangeline & TW Dreaming Of Diva 🐎🤍

[katjadarkrider]

Eschaton

Time: 4h 20m

[bovicola]

Handsome!

[brokenonyxestate]

FOALS GROWING UP (KINDA)

Calypso's POV

Babies BOE Chancellor and BOE Kaida has just reached 1 year old today! Those beautiful babies has just gotten sooo big, and I hope Ma will let me ride one of them, when they get old enough. Chancellor (the bay) is a colt/young stallion after BOE Cisco x BOE Brillianta with BOE Commodor in his pedigree.

Kaida (the solid black) is a young mare/filly after our old BOE Solomeus and a mare named SC Keep the Faith from @CassieJames. The have grown up so nicely!

Chance is a speedster, and often tries to outrun the mares in the pasture. Soon he will go to the stallion or gelding pastures, when his balls has dropped, as we don't want any surprise babies xD

Kaida is more slow, here she had just woken up from a nap forgetting how her front legs works. She is such a silly girl really.

After Chance's run he decided to lie down, and soon after Kaida joined him. It will be hard for them to be separate, but we have to. At least until we have decided if we want Chance spayed or not. They have been each others' support and best friend after they were weaned from their dams.

[tisha-sso]

Crimson🎠🎀

Kocham KWPN🥰😍 Cudowne są😵‍💫❤️

[verba-docent-exempla-trahunt]

Monsanto, Lisboa, Portugal.

[magnoliasporthorses]

Notable (Florianus II/Lils Lad) is a 2018 KWPN mare.  'Flori' has solid coursework to 2'6 with a flying change and is currently schooling Training Level dressage and working on her First Level movements.  Flori will be attending her first competition in the coming weeks.  She hacks out alone or in company, and is the same off property as she is on.

[horsesarecreatures]

Super Santos - Ducth Harness Horse

[echointernationaljumpers]

FATHER AND SON

Lauren's POV

Father and son has today arrived at Echo International Jumpers! Father - to the right - is a Black KWPN stallion named Tanzeln. He is out of the lines of Zobel's Universal x BOE Moonlit Debate, and 8 years old. He is out of Show Jumping lines, and, in my opinion, the perfect addiction to the stable alongside his son.

Then we have his son, Tatendrang. He is after EJ Tanzeln x Hollywood's Kisses LV (from Dove). Being 2 years old he is not ready for his riding career just yet, but he is growing fast for sure! He will be sure to be broken in next year though, and we are all excited for that.

The rider and/or trainer of these two will be a new staffmember that we have yet to welcome into Echo IJ. I am very excited to meet her, as only Vivian has met her so far. All I know is that her name is Tanya, and that she is not from around here.

[mapleesimsss]

Elisa & Diva having a little reading sesh! 🎃🍂🤍

[katjadarkrider]

Helios meets Diva

[bode-leone]

Lazino RW 2011 Bay KWPN gelding Lasino x Castellini

[brokenonyxestate]

DRESSAGE TRAINING IN THE WRONG GEAR

CALYPSO'S POV

If you are a little observant you will see that in this picture, and the many after this one, that I am wearing the wrong kind of tack for basic Dressage training, and so are Thor. Case is that our dressage tack is in for a cleaning, and normally I would do it myself, but my younger siblings Athena and Ares are in this competitive streak, and has made a competition out of who can maintain the leather and assemble tack the fastest - so who am I to say no to less work?

Anyways, so I took BOE Kalliope out alongside Thor and his horse for the day Sparrow's Dandelion. Kalliope enjoyed actually having the summerheat graze her coat, as we have had rain the last many days, so sweating a little did us both a lot of good.

When we came out there, Ma was out there too with little baby Kaida (BOE Solomeus x SC Keep the Faith). She is ready for some training from the ground, such as being lead around, move for pressure and moving backwards.

Dandy was very frisky today, but Thor handled her well as usual. I am always impressed with how Mom and Ma manage to find such excellent riders. One thing is being skilled at Dressage or Show Jumping, another is to have a good heart and being skilled at communicating with your horse. I think the last one is more important than skills in a few disciplines though.

While letting Kallie cool down a little in a slower walk (man, it was hot!), I watched as Ma trained the young Kaida. As always she was calm and collected, so different from Mom, who was slightly more well... she clearly has a temper, but of course never herself get irritated at the horse. She instead turns it inwards, and gets angry with herself - never ever the horse she is training.

And as HEC Sophie's Amber Eyes, aka. Amber Mom/Feline's private horse, will be ready for retirement soon, she is kinda jumpy about everything. She hates retiring a private horse, but as Amber has been pregnant the last few months maybe the change will be better for her. I worry about her though. Maybe it was better if she had another private horse, so she didn't have to say goodbye to an old one, to train an new one from the bottom up?

Anyways, we were finished with today's training, finishing with a glorious halt, Kallie standing squarely and surely on all four hooves. She is probably more of a Dressage horse than a Show Jumper, but Ma entrusted me with training her, and that's what I will do. It's pretty clear what the mare prefers though, even if she of course will jump too, if you ask her nicely.

"Hey Thor, do you think Feline will be okay? With her retiring Amber soon, I mean? Because it's not even for sure, if Amber's baby foal will be a horse for Ma," I said, as I worriedly scratched at Kallie's neck as a way to calm and ground myself.

"Well," the normally quiet man said, after all he has been a part of the stable family for awhile now, "I am sure she will be fine-"

I was trying to interrupt him, but he added a:

"-BUT I understand that you are worried for her. After all, when she said goodbye to Tallboy years back she was heartbroken. The dead of him was so sudden. This time she lets go of Amber on her own terms, and the mare will be in the pasture just down the road, if Feline needs her," he smiled kindly.

"I know, it's just... I worry for her sometimes. She is not exactly taking loss that well in general. And what if Amber doesn't make it through the birth of her foal? Mom will be heartbroken yet again," I wondered out loud, hoping that Ma couldn't hear us from the training arena as we passed it, while letting the mares walk to cool down.

"So that is why it took Hera so long to convince her to breed Amber!" It seemed as if a light turned on in Thor's brain just like that.

"Yeah, that's probably the real reason, even if Mom would postulate for a long time that it just wasn't the right time for her yet," I mussed, and shook my head with a short laugh, "Anyways, I really think Mom should get another horse, before Amber retires completely. So she doesn't have to be in this weird non-riding limbo for too long. Maybe even right away."

"You are probably right. I'll tell the other staff members to keep their eyes open for a calm horse with a good heart for Feline," he nodded in agreement.

"Especially bc Ajax, the baby's sire, is so different from whatever horse Feline would like. What if the foal gets more traits from him than from Amber? Then she suddenly won't have a horse to care for. And she has already been without riding for a few months now. I don't know, she seems a little depressed," I shrugged, my brows knitted together in worry.

"Don't worry, Calypso. We'll figure it out. I will alert the staff, and see what we can do about this," he said, patting me on the shoulder.

That lifted my spirit a little, as we turned around the mares to head back to the barn to cool them down with some water, before it was feeding time.

And then, after the cooling wash, they were let outside into the pasture again!