Cute horsey Halloween pics

[Rosie B]

Hi guys

I was looking at the nice photos of horses and riders dressed up for Halloween over on COTH and came across this one:

http://www.chronofhorse.com/photos_vide ... 2958#72959

Apologies if this has been posted already, but unless I am very much mistaken, this is one of our own.

[Chisamba]

Its cute. And clever

[PaulaO]

What a tolerant horse. That costume is very clever.

[Rosie B]

Whoops! It's the third photo in the set that is one of our members here on the DDBB.

But I love the mammoth costume!!

[Moutaineer]

Love this So clever!

[DJR]

Yep, that third picture is me on Jet. I hand-painted the skeleton on him. Best. Costume. Evah!

[Moutaineer]

Did you do both sides, DJR?

[DJR]

Did you do both sides, DJR?

Yes, it was at a short-course event so I "had" to do both sides because both sides would be seen. lol

[DJR]

Here are more pictures from the short-course event (which was actually in October 2013, not this year as the COTH picture implies). By this phase, the reins had erased his middle cervical vertebrae!

From the jumping phase:

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[DJR]

And from the dressage phase:

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I even painted the sacrum & pelvis on his big bum!

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[DJR]

And since this is a horse Hallowe'en pic thread, I'll add some more of my costume creations from other years!

Dante the Percheron as Spider-horse (Oct 2013) ...

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That's a big spider on his face!

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[DJR]

More of Dante the Spider-horse (Oct 2013)

A close-up of the spider on his face.

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A close-up of the neck web & braid enhancements.

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Spiderweb Percheron butt jumping!

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[DJR]

This was from Oct 2014, meet Dante the Bumblebee Percheron, complete with draft-sized wings!

I was a beekeeper and even had a net to catch the bees (although I'm not sure it was big enough for this bee!).

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We even jumped with the wings on.

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A friend heard I was going as a bumblebee so she dressed up as a flower! LOL

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[DJR]

More of the Oct 2014 Percheron bumblebee ...

Out on the cross-country course with the wings a-flappin' and his stinger a-stingin'!

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His cute Percheron-ness complete with bumblebee antennae behind his ears.

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The whole costume.

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[DJR]

I didn't show in 2015, so that brings us to Oct 2016. Now, it's not just a costume event for me, but also for my daughter!

She went as a Dalmatian puppy on her overgrown Dalmatian doggie. The neat thing is that she beat me in the dressage phase with a higher score!

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[DJR]

Oct 2016 - I went as a strange blend of Queen of Hearts, Zombie Valentine, and Devil-Woman! This was aboard our Fjord-QH mare, Aggie.

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I used coloured hair spray & a home-made stencil to paint on the hearts, then I added the arrow through the hearts with "zombie blood" from the costume store. Aggie was to be in a jumping clinic the following weekend, so after this show I bathed her to get the hearts off. You should have seen the result ... the warm, sudsy water combined with the zombie blood made it look like she'd been in a SERIOUS accident with rivulets of bloody water streaming down her sides & legs and pooling at her feet!!

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She and I had similar knives through our heads.

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[DJR]

Last, but not least, a few more pics from the Oct 2016 show ...

My mask and Aggie's "mane hearts".

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Warming up for our XC phase.

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My daughter & I with our winnings. She won the dressage phase. I won overall for the entire short-course event in our division, and I won best costume.

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[DJR]

That's all from me. We're already planning for next year's costumes!

[Moutaineer]

Wow.... I'm speechless with admiration!

[Canyon]

DJR - those are some amazing costumes. I can't imagine what you will come up with to top all of them!

[PaulaO]

I am in awe of your creativity.

[Dapple Field]

How on earth do you find the time or energy?! Your daughter is a very fortunate little girl to have landed with you!

[DJR]

How on earth do you find the time or energy?! Your daughter is a very fortunate little girl to have landed with you!

Thank you! I have always breathed, eaten, & channeled "horse". I spend way more hours of the day thinking about some aspect of "horse" than any other thing. So, I muse on my commute to work about things like costumes, as well as myriad other things with the common theme being "horse". LOL