This is my horse 'Waiwhenua Tahi'Tahi is an Appaloosa Arab cross.
Born 16th December 1995.
Tahi is a mare (female )and is about 14.2hh. Tahi is a Maori word that means #1 and Waiwhenua breaks down Wai Whenua Wai means water and Whenua means Land. Waiwhenua is the name of our farm and Tahi was the 1st animal that we had anything to do with that was born on this place after we bought it.
She has the most wonderful nature and moves like a dream.
We call her 'Ta'. Ta was born jet black with white socks and a white blaze but she changed colour on a regular basis until she ended up like this. She has been this colouring for some time now so we think this is what we get.
Ta was out of a mare 'Hokey Pokey'. by an Appaloosa Stallion of unknown breeding. Hokey very much chose her own mate but we did play a part in getting them together.
I will post a photo of her at some time but they certainly don't look alike although you certainly can see the likeness. Ta is big boned and quite solid where as Hokey is quite fine and apart from lots of colour looks all Arab. Hokey is now retired from a quite successful career in Endurance Riding ( long distance horse racing ) whereas Ta has always been quite lazy and never really had the same competitive spirit. She and I did however successfully complete a few 80km rides but not competitively. We mostly now just enjoy a quite and leisurely time together.
4 comments:
Nice Work Pete! I am an online friend of Tim's and found your blog via his.
Great to see a little about what you're up to and where Tim comes from! Keep writing! ;)
Hi jo kay
Thanks for the comments. I am still very much coming to grips with this. However I have to say I am quite enjoying it all. Quite a challenge for someone so tech ilit.
Between my farming ( home ) and my farrier work things get quite interesting from time to time so I hope to post some interesting photos and comments. I hope you will keep reading as I keep writing
farrierpete
Pete, it is only by chance i have fallen on your website. The way in which you write of your animals (extended whanau/family) is truly magical. Thank you for sharing this with us. I'll be sure to show my young boys who have dreams of living on a farm one day...
Renee & boys
Ngati Maniapoto
No Otautahi au
(Descendents of Ngati Maniapoto with family residing in Te Kuiti, living in Christchurch) x
Hi Renee
Thanks Renee. I am sorry but I have only just picked up your comment. I must check back on older posts to make sure I pick up on comments in future.
I havn't posted much lately as things have been somewhat busy.
Did you live in TK or just have Whanau here?
The name of our property is Waiwhenua hence the name of my horse. She was the 1st animal we had anything to do with born here.
Our place is very isolated and is one of those sorts of places that you say it's an hoonore to be allowed to live here.
How old are your boys? The farm is a great life. I wish I'd come to it at a much younger age
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