Blast from the Past

[dancinghorse]

The Southwest Lipizzan Association newsletter editors asked me to write a piece about how I got into the breed, which meant digging through the box of old photos and playing with the scanner. So, for your amusement, here are two early Capria photos.



Capria on the day I bought her in 1992, Kim Severson up (I got on her for the first time right after that, and the rest is history.)






Capria a year later, demonstrating her Infamous Telescoping Neck Trick:

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[rethought.livejournal.com]

That really is a neat neck trick...

[kerlin.livejournal.com]

Capria on the day I bought her in 1992, Kim Severson up (I got on her for the first time right after that, and the rest is history.)

Okay, the eventing fangirl in me just flailed a whole lot. Had she started Capria?

How is it that she looks so much more gray in the second photo? Is there just an awful lot of glare in the first?

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Yep, midmorning at 7000 feet versus shade at 2500 feet, but also sun-bleaching. She was pretty light when she arrived, but her winter coat grew out a lot darker and the waterer photo was taken the following spring.

Kim hadn't started Capria, someone else had. She was showing the girls to me as trainer for the farm at the time (actually I think she was a working student, but she did plenty of training as part of the job). She delivered Capria in a truckload of eventers after her stint ended two weeks later, this little chunky grey horse in with all the big brown TBs, then went off to train with Jack Le Goff and become a Star.

Her mother still lives on the north side of Tucson and I think still runs a lesson barn.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

It used to freak people out. She had a waterer in her own stall, mind, but she much preferred the one next door.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Okay, the eventing fangirl in me just flailed a whole lot.

Hee. You and me both.

thread hijacking ;)

[raithen.livejournal.com]

I sent you email. with a rather large attachment. did you get it?

also, J. Capria is lovely, of course. But no early pics of you and she??!!

[kerlin.livejournal.com]

The variation in winter coats fascinates me. My roan goes dark bay for the winter, but we have a gray Lusitano at the barn who is snow-white in the winter and dapple gray in the summer. Would elevation make that much of a difference as well?

I would kill to have a picture of Kim Severson on Tris. Of course, she'd probably be making a curdled milk face, but still.

Re: thread hijacking ;)

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

I got the clinic form if that's what you mean, answered the email that came with that, and you answered it. Is that the one you're talking about?

I don't have time to go through and scan all the old photos. Will someday.

Re: thread hijacking ;)

[kerlin.livejournal.com]

Got it! I have printed it out and will be reading tonight.

(did I ever tell you that Coach keeps Complete Training of the Horse and Rider by her bedside? if I hadn't already decided she was possibly the coolest person on earth, that would have cinched it.)

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

The higher the altitude, the less atmosphere to filter the sun.

Capria was making the curdled-milk face. Note how her eye was rolling back at me. She never took her eyes off me from the time I got there till the time I left. That's what it's like when your Lipizzan chooses you. The laser beam homes in and that's it. It's all over.

Pandora did it to me when she got off the trailer. She belonged to someone else at the time. Didn't matter to her in the slighest. I was the chosen human. And that was all she wrote.

Re: thread hijacking ;)

[raithen.livejournal.com]

sorry - that was for Kerlin ;) I presumed you owned Podhajsky and therefore would not want the definitions chapter I scanned!

And yes, I know, scanning takes time! It was just good natured ribbing. Ms. Capria is lovely, and she likes her food, so she says you can write stuff instead of scanning ;).

[raithen.livejournal.com]

:D.

also, I should add I DID get your replies ;).

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

How old was she in the top photo? Because the one thing that came to mind was how much she's grown into herself since then.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Capria was 4. She'd been under saddle a little over three months at the time. She grew a Lot over the next couple of years.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Wow she's a gorgeous animal.

[lagilman]

Such a pretty girl....

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

I have a couple of piccies of her on my wall. In one of them she is doing the classic begging stance. Such a pretty girl.

[smoemeth.livejournal.com]

Wow, blast from the past indeed!

I remember the first time I met Capria. She was as gracious then as now. :)