Texas Equine Photographer | Sally the Trakehner
Sally, C’est La Vie, is a Trakehner Mare. She goes back to Pyatt Charlie. She was bred by Judy and Steve Ritchie or Wolftrack Farm. Sally was actually a complete accident. The colt was out with a herd of older mares, he was so young they didn’t think he could breed yet, but he discretely bred one of the mares and out popped Sally on Halloween in 2013.
Sally is owned by Ashley Shaw, she very curious and brave. That’s is what attracted Ashley to her in the beginning. She has good conformation and nice, well balanced gaits, but she was a yearling when Ashley bought her so her, and personality won her over. Sally doesn’t bat an eye at much, which can be a pain; sometimes she just goes where she wants. But it’s very innocent. As soon as you tell her that’s not the plan she’s on board.
Sally will be a dressage horse when she grows up. “She has an amazingly free shoulder and I’m really excited to see what happens in the next few years. My favorite time is from age 5 to 9 years old, so I won’t make my mind up about her just yet. She’s only three and a little small so I am going to take my time.”
Ashley shared the story of how she found Sally, “I had been gifted some money for an upcoming trip to be a working student in Belgium, but thought it was irrational to go away to learn to ride better and come back and not have anything to practice on. I figured I would look into getting an appendix or something, and then saw an ad for Sally. It was all my mom could do to keep me from driving there with the trailer. She made me go back a couple of days later so that I had to think it over.”
Sally could best be described as a sassy mare that love peppermints. She will also walk right into the tack room and hang out like a person. Ashley says, now that she has started to work with Sally, every time she work with another horse she gets jealous.
Ashley shares a little trick about braiding manes, “I think it’s becoming more commonplace now but for dressage horses the trend is for big button braids, so I just cut the mane and don’t pull it.”
Karinda K Equine Photography is a Texas equine photographer located in Montgomery, TX. Karinda creates timeless portraits of you with your beloved horses, and other farm animals. Serving locally Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin, Texas communities. KEP also serves Wellington and Ocala, Florida, Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky, Aiken, South Carolina, Tryon, North Carolina, and Norco and Woodside, California and their surrounding communities.
