Miss Hollywood Caidence ( Holly)

[Siliverin]

Well I have a horse named Holly ( show name was Hollywood Caidence) She is an arabian mix, so i was told when i bought her back in 1996, when i was 8, she was also 8. My parents thought i would get over my phase when i was even younger of wanting a horse. They were wrong, so they finally put me in lessons. Well my trainer had told them the best thing to do if they could afford it would be to get me my own horse because i did very well with them. So my parents said yes since, my aunt who passed left my $1000 to get a horse, she knew of my love for them. Well i was scanning the paper and seen an ad it read: Arabian Horse, 8 years old, great horse for begginers!" I called my dad at work and left a message with the phone number, well when i had got home from school the next day, they said we would go look since my dad had called while i was at school. So we get to the place and i see this cute little arab just walking around. I walk up to the small arena she was in and she walked right up to me and started nuzzleing me. I got on and rode and it was like love at first sight. I had got off and she just kept rubbing me with her head. My dad turned to me and asked what i thougt, all i coudl say was i love her. He said good, cause we already came and seen her, just wanted your approvel. So we bought her. When we got her to the stable we were going to keep her at it was a whole other story. They told us she did trail in the grand caynon. Well she was scared of water, cups and many other things. I was a bit heart broken casue even after getting used to the place she was still like it. Heart broken but i told my dad there was no way on this green earth i would get rid of her. We had a connection, that i can never describe. At 8 years old i did what i could to work with her, and my dad did to. Finally we got her to wwhere she wasnt afraid of anything. I was even riding her and we both fell asleep. She slowley started to lay down and i just slowley stepped off like nothing and sat laying up against her lol.

She has been the pride of my life and still is, for a while " I lost my moxy" after i got my first job. I started to change myself to fit in ith people. I was 120% country but i knew if i was like that i wouldnt fit in with the peopel i worked with. Slowley i started to lose myself. I rode, but not as much as i should of or used to. Well I went over yesterday to go see her with my dad and son and, seeing my son ride her was like seeing me ride her as a little girl all over again. When i was able to get on a ride, cy my son didnt want to get off lol, it was like time stopped, there was nothing else in the world, just me and Holly, just us as one. When i got off her to let cy ride again it was like time started again and i relized that i changed myself for stupid reasons, i had finally found myself again yesterday thanks to my horse, i know who i used to be and still am, just gotta dig myself out from this whole i got myself into and be the real me again. We are both 22 now She follows me and i dont even need to hold the lead, she always rubs against my back and will give me a good push.

( i might sound crazy or stupid to some but just wanted to get it out xD )










pic of a pic ._. not the best :

[Kaleos]

Great looking horse. As I scrolled to the bottom and hit your sig though I thought, "Wait that's not a horse, where'd she take this ....oohhh" /facepalm

[Aritria]

She's beautiful! I've had a long-standing obsession with horses, too, though I'm far from being a country girl. When I was little, my parents would make sure that I was brought up with as much information about anything that I could possibly hold. They also made sure that when we'd watch movies being aired on TV, that they were from Old Hollywood. You know, Ben Hur, 1001 Arabian Nights, Citizen Kane, Singing in the Rain. Movies that were epic in length and had immaculate detail in the costumes and sets. My first ever exposure of horses, which was about the same age you started riding Holly, was from Ben Hur and the Chariot Race scene. Now, at 8 or 9, I couldn't follow much of storyline (I really didn't want to at the time), but I found that I grew a fondness for horses from then on in. The four used, coincidentally white Arabians, were the sweetest things, even when trained to be on a movie set. It entranced me, really, and I've had a distant obsession with them ever since.

I haven't ridden much, just on trail rides and such when I'm given the chance to, but I'd love to eventually start riding as a long term hobby. If I ever win the lottery, I'm getting an acreage, getting a horse, getting a car, and move out to the Alberta Foothills, in that order. It's a beautiful bond, horses and humans, and once you find your boundaries with each other, it's life long, and that's something that comes along once or twice in a lifetime, the other being a husband, wife, or common law partner. Treasure what you have, Sili.

[Siliverin]

@aro: ty hehe. I need to get a pic of the spots on her back and butt xD she has one that is about the size or a quarter maybe 50 cent piece, and then a bunch of little ones all around and go up her back hehe.

@Caelaza: Ty. For a while i forgot what i had but i regret forgetting. I just wish the drive was not so bad or long ( horrable dirt road) She is always there to listen, never talks back, and never judges me on how i look