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Enjoy,
Jenn

Her name is "Bella". She's a 10 yr old Percheron/Morgan cross and weighs in at 1600#. She's not tall, only 15-2hh, but VERY strong. We don't have to worry too much about her stepping in a hole. We've had her since December '96.

Near as we can figure from archaeological info and pictorial evidence, she's as close to a medieval'destrier' as we've seen so far.

We're lucky to have found her.

Jeff and Gwen

or: http://members.xoom.com/Mareschel/Lady_Johanne_le_Mareschel.htm

or:
www.knightsofstdenys.org

and click on members, then Sir Geoffrey or Lady Johanne pages.

Also, check out everyone but us at: http://members.xoom.com/newcastleboy/15th_Century.htm
I didn't have time to write anything, but in no particular order is: Victor, Joe, Tom and Casey. Patty and I were taking the pictures.
Sorry, we were up to 44.6MB and Xoom wouldn't take it so the whole thing crashed.
[This message has been edited by Monsieur Geoffrey de Leon (edited 05-31-2000).]

I wasn't able to view the image so looked at the url in your message. I couldn't find gtj801.jpg on your site. So I visited the primary source and found the above picture. Is that picture you wanted to appear?

Cheers,
Jenn

PS- Interesting. Does XOOM allow for linking to images they host? I keep seeing the XOOM logo instead of your picture.

I don't blind date, so until your picture goes up, I'm staying with the tin can. He looks funny and makes a lot of noise but he brings me carrots.

I may be easy, but I ain't cheap....

This is me on the horse I do lance passes on, Titan. He's a TN walker/percheron mix, and though not exactly an "authentic" horse he sure is pretty. I'll try to get a pic of the two thouroughbreds I also ride up sometime.

Send me carrots and we'll talk.

So Glen- you know what's been said about here using these giant horses for jousting- why does your group buy an 18- hand Percheron instead of a 16 hand warmblood? Is it to impress the babes, impress the crowd, because drafts are relatively inexpensive to purchase (but then they cost a fortune to shoe/ feed/ tack because they are non-standard) or because the people who run your group think they look cool?

I'm curious.

Actually, the reason is very simple: Dave (the owner of the troupe) makes no qualms about saying that his show is just that: a show, a theatrical production whose primary purpose is to entertain the crowd. So, it's mostly to impress the crowd and because they look really cool. He knows dang well they're not period. He even knows (usually) what is and isn't period, but he'll honestly tell you that it's all about theatrics.

MOVE CLOSER. WE CAN DO COOL STUFF!!!!!

yeah, that's right.....mmmmmm....that's the ticket........

(I too was guilty of this when I was younger I have since mended my ways.)

FyreStryker: I agree. I figure they get it the exact same place they get the ol' "knight on back = immobilized turtle" gag. It's been so long, and I've learned so much since then, I honestly can't remember where I heard that stuff anymore. Heck, even in my Pyle's "Arthur and his Knights" book they're running around like mad demons, smiting and smoting everything in sight, "leaning on their swords" every couple of hours. This is almost expected from the unknowing general public, but I think where "medievalist" get it is the very common unfamiliarity with horses that 98% of the population has. The have such a hard time believing that a normal-sized horse could carry a man and his armour around effeciently and nimbly without killing it. Therefore, the horse HAD to have been about 47 1/2 hands high.

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Originally posted by Fire Stryker:
.... the misconception that Knights rode draft horses and if it isn't bigger than 16h, it isn't a warhorse....

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You might want to check out the other threads in this form, especially "Medieval Horse books", as they covered a lot of ground there.

Picture was taken Saturday, June 24, 2000. Part of our Wolfe Argent get your horse used to armour day. Normandie did very well. Phantom got "spooked". So we don't have any really good pictures of her. This will of course change in time.

Jenn

A bunch of you have already seen these but I figured, what the hell. This handsome chap is just about 3 months old, and when he grows up he shall hopefully be my mount if all goes well. I call him Spark and he is a Belgian/Arabian cross.

There we go! Big thanks to Jenn for lending some space!
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You guys gotta see this foal, he is a handsome fellow and very "flashy".

If any of you all want your photos to show on a more permanent basis, send me the jpgs or gifs and I will put them in a directory and give you the URL so you can link them. The free sites get a little touchy when Intersite linking.

My friend Jim was up at the barn today with his digital camera and took this wonderful picture of my beautiful baby.

Phantom @ 2 years 4 months

Cheers,

Jenn

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Ok, I hope I the coding right, we'll see when it loads.

Brenna

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