Wordless Wednesday Driving Harnesses and Carriages

For those of you interested in tack (and also for personal, future, use) I took a few pictures of the tack and carriages from the driving class at Falsterbo Horse Show.

The next post will be the last of the Falsterbo Horse Show posts and will show you some pictures of the obstacles in some of the jumping classes but also the obstacles from the driving class.

Wordless Wednesday Driving

This year there was a new addition to the Wednesday program. Cross country driving. I've never seen a driving competition live although I've tried driving horses myself and it's a lot of fun so I was looking forward to see the horses.

There were only 5 entries in this class and colourwise it was quite varied, two chestnuts, one bay, one grey and one dark bay. 4 of the entered horses were warmbloods and one was a riding pony.

The pony was quite fast.

And maneuvered the obstacles really well.

The bay was really fast.

This chestnut probably was my favourite of the day, such a beauty!

And the carriage had pink details!

Next post will give you some closer pictures of the tack and carriages from the driving class.

Wordless Wednesday Jumping

This is my first post of pictures (and also the biggest) from Falsterbo Horse Show. I will post all these picture posts as "wordless Wednesday" posts.

The pictures in today's post are from the 2 jumping classes we saw and the combined jumping/cross country class.

Unfortunately it was raining pretty much the entire day so pictures are not the best but I've decided to share some of my favourites.

Most horses in the jumping classes were bay or grey.

Yay, a chestnut!

Nope, not jumping that water!

If I remember correctly this pair unfortunately got eliminated on the water obstacle. 

Nope, not jumping that...

But second try was better!

I loved the facial marking of this guy!

This horse looked so sweet.

It looked like a close call but the horse slid over the obstacle, landed almost like after a normal jump, and continued on like nothing had happened.

The award ceremony with all the applauding people was a bit frightening for this horse.

Another chestnut!

Dapples!

Another "Nope, not jumping".

Another really sweet horse!

I really liked this grey!

Happy winner!

Next week, dressage.

Leaving

The worst thing about leaving is saying goodbye. I hate goodbyes, even if I know that I will come back in a few months, I still hate it. I leave on Saturday and tonight I'll go to my boyfriend to spend a few days with him before leaving. That meant that yesterday was the last day I had with my dear animals.

So I took a long walk and played and cuddled with Liten.

Svante didn't want to play so we settled for cuddling.

Nike got some love and candy too, before he kindly volounteered for some photos of colours and markings for future references for his portrait piece.

I was to go and get Poppes in the pasture but before I got so far I was stopped by this curious beauty. She wanted some attention too.

My dear Poppes didn't care to much for my presence when I was to go get him. He got love and some care, like cutting his mane, tail and a thorough groom.

He looked a little more interested later on.

Like I said I hate goodbyes and this year it's even worse then last year. But hopefully I'll learn a lot of interesting things and have time to do some model horse related things during this time.

Pictures

I haven't had time to write a "proper" blogpost as I've been working, working and working some more for quite some time now. I will be working on some "real" blogposts this weekend (as it's my one and only free weekend for the entire summer)  but for today you'll have to settle for a few of my favourite pictures from this years Falsterbo Horse Show.

First, some dressage horses:

I really loved the colour on this chestnut, he wasn't competing on the day I was there but I would've loved to see him in the dressage ring.

This was another impressive horse who wasn't competing on the day I was there.

This little fella was competing at the day. This day it was the 6-year olds who competed.

There was also a show of some beautiful P.R.E.s

Look at that neck!

The P.R.E's were shown both doing dressage, jumping (I didn't get any good pictures of that unfortunately) and driving.

Of course we were watching the Falsterbo Hunting as usual so here are some pictures of the jumping course:

This 19-year old horse entered the Falsterbo Hunting for the 10th year.

He's still going strong, doing a very nice round.

Another beautiful chestnut!

And last but not least I came across a really cool chestnut in the row for the vet inspection:

Unfortunately we weren't allowed to enter the stable area so I couldn't get really good photos of him but I really liked his markings! :)

All in all it was an incredible day with great weather, a little shopping (nothing model-horsey unfortunately) and some exciting competitions. I can't wait to go next year!