A guide to ID’ing the sisters
| November 14, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
5 easy steps to telling the sisters apart.
- Does it look like a Giraffe when it moves?
While ML is blessed with a natural uphill movement, Farley prefers the inverted dramatic look at liberty.
2. Does it look like it got in the way of a paint sprayer?
I am SHOCKED at how many people can’t see the white on ML. Farley has a single point of white on her forehead – a star.
Farley. She also has a very small white snip on her nostril that can be seen in this pic. Every year the star gets a little bigger.
ML has a light spray of grey on her face that looks like a trick of the light in photos, as well as white haired scars down her back from being attacked by a different horse when she was young. Looks like an errant paint sprayer.
Unless you get it at the right angle, you can be tricked into thinking this is just the shine of the hair in the light.
Scars on ML’s back.
3. Is it running towards you or away from you?
Typical pic of Farley:
“This is pointless”
Typical pic of ML:
Why would you send me away??? I WANNA CUDDLE!!
4. Did it finish the mash, lick the pan clean, and glare at you for more?
Piglet, thy name is Farley
PS – Farley “the teenage mom” in the below picture is about the same age as ML is now! (The colt last I heard is doing great and belongs to a vet student who should be out of vet school by now, who has knew him since he was born. )
Farley is 5 or 6 here. Ironically Farley’s colt’s Dad is the same line as ML’s mom…..So I’m not sure who is more closely related, Farley and ML, or ML and Farley’s colt.
ML at 5 years old.
If that fatty pony up top went on to be an awesome endurance horse, there’s hope for the second one right????
Fun comparing, isn’t it? Joe was the first horse I ever bought: all the others were my dad’s pick or sort of – happened along. I love Joe to bits and he has been a stellar performer but I look at him now and think “What was I THINKING??”. Feet too small for his body, upright pasterns, upright hind legs… I think his half brother, bought with the benefit of what I have learned from Joe, will be even better.
I think genetics, epigenetics, and seeing what you get in real life is FACINATING. Farley is the only horse I’ve ever “bought on purpose” so I can’t take too much credit for ML. LOL. I basically said yes to ML before she even sent me pics. I think I probably would have passed on ML if Ihad been looking at her as a “for sale and I’m buying” horse because she was so light boned and had smaller feet than what I was used to. THANK GOD I DIDN’T. Sometimes I think the way things work out is for the best.
From what I see on FB it looks like Joe’s half brother continues to be a stellar citizen?