"Cali". 9 year old buckskin dun mare, lineage went back to the original quarterhorses. My wife's horse for teaching horsemanship to kids and beginning riders. You'd have to work real hard to find a more gentle horse, particularly when it came to kids. She would move around under a kid to keep the kid "in the seat" and not let him/her fall off.

EPM, or "equine protozoal myeloencephalitis", is what caused her to have to be put down this morning. Damn a 'possum...

Here she is at five months old, the day we brought her home.
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Here she is 5 years old, getting some exercise.
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And here, she's almost 6, just hanging around, being a horse.
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Ed

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