My names Elizabeth, I'm 21 years old and currently attending school at Washington State University. I have two American Paint Horses, Chance is somewhere around 35 years old (he is the top and bottom photos) and Bug Bars aka: Trace is 24.Chance is a rescue, I don't know anything about him other than what I've learned in the past six years that I've had him. And in the six years I have owned him he's gone for 23 to 35. We showed 4-H together, his favorite event was areana trail. He officially retired last year when i got Trace. Chance has some health issues, he's blind in his right eye and this summer he either agrivated an old injury or gave himself a new one. Anyways his stifle swelled and I found him down in the pasture the day the vet was coming out to give him and Trace their shots. That was only a few months ago, the same day the vet told me he thought Trace had bowed a tendon, and I wouldn't be able to ride at least two months. So I was told my riding horse wasn't ride able and I might have to put Chance down. Bad couple of months I had, a few days after I was told this I had a car accident the day the vet re-checked Chance and told me he thought he would be fine, never 100% but comfortable and happy.
Trace has taken longer to heal, and I have to take it easy when we ride. He really needs to be conditioned, but since I'm now at school and he is home, thats not gonna happen. Trace was given to me by my farrier, after I spent a few months searching for a new horse. I wanted young, colored, and peppy. I got old, colored, and very peppy. Trace is basically half thoroughbred half paint, he's paint in his recent pedigree, quarter horse and thoroughbred a few generations back. He even traces back to Man O' War.
Other info I'm horse crazy, I paint, draw, and photograph horses. I'm also an avid Breyer model horse collector and resins. My favorite sculptors are Sarah Rose, Stacey Tumlinson, Maggie Bennet and several others. I have a few resisns mostly rose's, of my painted horses are a Traditional Independence (I don't know who painted him), Lonestar painted by Shelia Bishop (Anderson) as a portrait of Chance, and Working girl painted by Sommer Prossor. I have two Tumlinson horses that I'm painting myself, a traditional Ziryab as a bay tobiano with ink spots and a mini scarlett as a bay toby.
