UVM Morgan Horse Farm

 The day after the rodeo, I went to the Morgan Horse Farm where my friend Ryley works as an apprentice. I had previously gone in 2022. But this time Ryley took me after hours and showed me all the best behind-the-scenes stuff. My favorite part was probably hanging out with a foals, no surprise there!

This is a filly called Frenzy. That’s what they’ll call her until she gets her official name. They name all their foals starting with the same letter each year and going alphabetically. Like last year, all the names started with an E, and this year, all the names start with F and so on.

We got poured on too!

Ryley introduced me to some of the yearling, two year old, and one older fillies/mares.

I recognized this pretty filly from last year:

She’s grown!

These are are two fillies (two year olds I think)

They were very curious and had a lot of fun sniffing us. The bay one in the picture above, I forget her name, thought my shoes were very interesting. First she tried untying the laces. And after that, she tried, biting them off!!! 😂

Goodbye all!

After that we went to see the stallions.

This is their current breeding stallion, UVM Unchallenged. He is gorgeous!!!

They have another retired stud, UVM Equity, who I did not take a picture of, but I can show you the one that I took of him last year. 

I don’t want to say that they weren’t well mannered, but they were very excited to sniff my hands and catch the mares sent. If I didn’t keep my hand right where they could sniff it, they would try biting me lol. Stallions!🤣

Here are some more pictures of last year’s visit, just because.  ;)

It was a great visit and probably the highlight of my trip. I’ll have one more post featuring some of the pictures I took… But then it’s back to model horses. Yay!