Diablo gets svelte

Recall recently that I was concerned Diablo had slipped her fancy baby as she was much leaner than she ever is. I had her checked and she is still in foal, thank you baby Jesus.
But this is what Diablo looks like ....never. Even post foaling, weeks after foaling, time to wean...Diablo is just a big girl. Well as big as you can be when you are just hitting 14 hands. She really might be as tall as she is wide, normally. Her belly is usually in the way of even simple things like trimming her feet--which gets dang near impossible once she hits about eight months in foal. This is really really svelte for her.
She is not even really sticking out on the sides. Isn't that just as pretty a chest as you could ask for? On a horse, people. They have totally different standards than people. This is a good 'un--take my word for it.
Isn't that a pretty face she has? That is a yearling halter she is wearing as well--I won it in a photo contest and did the smartest thing I ever did--asked if I could NOT get the horse size as it won't fit on any one here.

There is some belly in this one, but nothing like normal.
She is a gorgeous mare too, isn't she? Her yearling Squiggy is looking more and more like her every day too. She will make someone a great prospect.
Where do broodmare's forelocks go? I guess they come out in cockleburrs, as almost none of them have them anymore. An odd phenomenon, that one.
I just love this shot--I wish the trees had covered the whole background--but you take what you can get.

After we got done with these shots, we took her to the back hay field, and rustled Ammo from the middle pasture so that they would not be able to access each other. It took a while, since it was dark. I put her in the pen with Grandpa, to hang with him until he was done eating--but what did I find when I got back? Ammo took down a board and disappeared--back to the middle pasture where she came from.

Now she thinks Playmate is her mother. I guess if she can nurse from a mare whose youngest foal is 4 years old, more power to her---I think she just has a crush on Play.

I give up, she can be wherever she wants to be