Maisie Smiles

Requests have been made for pictures of Maisie "smiling" when she's out grazing with the mare herd. Yesterday, she got to go out for 30 minutes with the mares, and she was delighted - today she'll get 45 minutes and I expect will be even more delighted. She'd had about 4 hours of dry lot turnout in the morning with Dawn, and they seem to have settled in together - Dawn was doing less posturing by the time I came to get them.

Here's the Maisie face that greeted me, with a big whinny, when I went to the barn in the afternoon to turn her out for her grazing time:

I turned her out in the pasture next to the mares - as soon as I let her go she started grazing:

But then she had to run to see the mares - that's Dawn on the right running up and calling:

Dawn was very interested in "her" mare - the mudlocks from her morning roll in the wet, muddy paddock create an interesting hairdo:

Maisie did some moving around once the mares joined her in the pasture:

She dropped a mouthful of something that she didn't want:

And moved off again:

Now if this isn't a horse smile, I don't know what is:

I left her out there - but she did look up when I called her name before she went back to the grass: