Nicki, Your mare is a virtual double for a mare I leased way back in the early 80's, in fact I cant see any difference at all. I'd be interested if my old mare apeared in Zara's pedigree anywhere. Her name was Oakdale Tara. I only had her for a year and sadly it was a bit of a love/hate relationship that we hadShe was good in almost every way- her downside was she had learned to buck and pigroot, with the previous leasee, and did so whenever she felt like it, I learned how to fall off really well with her- I was only 12yrs old. When she wasnt bucking she was very very good- she never shied and never got scared. She won many championships at shows too. She certainly never put me off the breed she simply had learned a bad habit that at 12yrs of age, I couldnt fix. I heard a few years on that she had settled right down and become a quiet 'little kids' pony and a broody so I guess she did grow out of it eventually.
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Nicki, Your mare is a virtual double for a mare I leased way back in the early 80's, in fact I cant see any difference at all. I'd be interested if my old mare apeared in Zara's pedigree anywhere. Her name was Oakdale Tara. I only had her for a year and sadly it was a bit of a love/hate relationship that we had
Hi Manocaaron, my goodness I hope you get this message after all this time! I owned Oakdale Tara from 1983 until she passed away in 1998. We bought her from the Turriffs in Dowerin. She tried the pony club life for a few years at Darling Range HPC but she was a complete turd and refused to do anything, often bucking me off and pigrooting. I still adored her. We tried to breed from her but it did not prove successful. She lived at my parents' home on Hawtin Road, Maida Vale until she passed away from skin cancer 6 weeks after my wedding in 1998. She was always known as the 'white pony' on Hawtin Road who would stand under the tree all day. By incredible coincidence, Oakdale Farm is only 1km away from my parents' house. We visited her dam Scarlett OHara in Dunsborough at the pony ride school down there in the late 80s. Millfields March Winds had an incredibly sad demise and his remains were found in a paddock.
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Hi, i agree with you
