October 12, 2024- I didn't have time to grab my good camera so these are just cell phone pics of Magic's first few hours. He is big boy to come out of a relatively small mare.



October 12, 2024- Check out the last head shot. See the blue-ish eyes? Those are not uncommon in single cream dilute foals. Magic is just about 7 hours old here.



October 14, 2024- I'm not sure if today counts as Day Three or not. Honestly the last two weeks and especially the last three days have been a blur. But here is Magic at just over 48 hours old. His IGG was great and he was a good boy for the vet (even if his sedation wasn't quite working so well) and we did give him oxytetracyline via IV to help his contracted fronts relax. Within an hour they were looking way better and today he is perfect!



October 17, 2024- Magic is five days old! He went into a new paddock today. He enjoyed more room to run until late afternoon when something got Charli very upset and I had to move them back closer to the barn. She is coming into her foal heat, and with their protective maternal instincts at their highest, my mares can be more sensitive and excitable during this time.


October 19, 2024- Magic is one week old today. He went in our foal pasture for the first time this afternoon. There's lots of room and lots of grass (Charli seemed happy for the latter)!


October 28, 2024- Two weeks old. Magic is filling out nicely. I finally got some good pictures of his pretty face. Of all of Charli's foals I think Magic looks the most like her and his maternal grandsire, Gone Gold.


November 2, 2024- Two weeks old.


November 9, 2024- Magic is four weeks old today! Time really does fly. I wish they could stay foals forever! The first picture was taken with my cell phone at dusk as Magic was watching Jim bush hog their pasture. The other two were taken earlier in the day. The saddle pad was my "ear getter"!



November 24, 2024- Magic was six weeks old yesterday. Today he went in our biggest pasture and met Rosie up close (he knew her through the fence previously) and Coral through the fence (he really liked her, but she is hard on Charli so he will have to admire her from afar).


December 13, 2024- When you are down for the count with a herniated disc in your back, all you can think about (besides the pain) is "how will I take care of my horses?" It just adds to the stress of the whole situation. Jim has been helping, but he has a full-time job so I have been struggling by myself a lot. The other issue was getting my horses' feet done. I am passionate about this so can't just "let it go". Magic was in need of his first hoof trim and although I pick up his feet every day, I am too sore to maneuver around and hang onto the foot (on a wiggly baby) to trim it properly. I did get a little done yesterday while he was lying down- until he woke up, LOL! Sherri Larson Farmer gave me the contact info for a barefoot trimmer who happens to live just 5 minutes from me and had a cancellation today so she could fit me in (thank you Sherri for the referral!). Taylor Brandon you are a godsend! Taylor spent two hours on Charli and Magic- she is a perfectionist! Magic was initially resistant to the idea of a stranger hanging onto his feet, but by the time Taylor finished with Charli (who, like all my adult horses, is "old lady proof" LOL) he had accepted that she wasn't here to cause him any harm. Bless you Taylor for your patience in giving Magic the best first hoof trim experience he could have possibly had. Local friends, I highly recommend Taylor for all your hoof trim needs!


December 19, 2024- Magic was 2 months old on the 12th. There are limits to what I can do with my back injury so he hasn't been worked with as much as he would be if I was 100%. So it was not until last week when I put the halter on him completely for the first time. I didn't take pictures, but it was a non-event. He'd been previously introduced to me slipping it over his nose and was comfortable with that, but I hadn't tried to buckle it. Today was his second haltering. Again, no big deal but it was humorous watching him try to figure out if he could nurse with that thing on! I just love his sweet little face which reminds me so much of his late grandsire Roadie. This halter has been the first halter for all of my foals from the very first one, Willy Remember Me in 1986. Magic has almost outgrown it so I was happy to get these pictures as it is tradition here to take pictures of the babies wearing it!


January 4, 2025- Magic eating his (timothy) supper hay. I've had back pain since shortly after he was foaled and a recent MRI showed a herniated disc. Will try injections before surgery. I wish I felt better so I could spend more time with Magic and my other Morgans.


January 11, 2025- After spending a day and a half in the barn due to snow and sleet the ponies were set free this morning. The predicted frolicking did occur (as my heart lept to my throat due to the slippery conditions!). Everyone stayed upright, thank God. Most of my foals do not see snow until they go to their new homes, but Magic, who will be three months old tomorrow, was in for a treat! He trotted right out of the barn with his mom (usually they are a little more slow and wary when they first see snow) and proceeded to have a ball.


February 21, 2025- Brunch in bed this AM with Charli and Magic. We're having another cold spell here in the southeast- this one, thankfully, minus the snow and ice! I have been limping along with my herniated disc, waiting on an appointment on March 3rd with a neurosurgeon to see what my options are. Sleep is not easy as I cannot get comfortable. So, not much time spent with the horses.


March 21, 2025- I had my back surgery on the 18th. It has been a rough couple of days after but I have made it to the barn once each day, a high point in my new routine of sleep, recliner, sleep. Six weeks to recover, then another six weeks taking it easy so the disc does not reherniate. Here are Charli and Magic looking for some lovin'.


April 1, 2025- Magic is rather patchy with shedding right now and that mane is crazy thick. He is coming 6 months old now and will be weaned soon (not looking forward to that although Charli seems more than ready to lose the leech, LOL!).


April 3, 2025- Magic got a new girlfriend- or so he thought- today. Kyrie let him know very quickly he was friendzoned ;-) Magic has been harassing Rosie the last few days and with her age (31) and EPM she is unsteady enough and doesn't need his pestering. So, she is in another field (and very happy for the peace and quiet!) and Kyrie will step in as Magic's weaning companion. Hoping this will continue to go well and I can start pulling Charli out for the afternoon in a few days, and eventually to final separation. Magic is almost 6 months old now!


April 21, 2025- Magic got his mane braided to the "proper" right side tonight for the first time. I wanted pictures since by tomorrow most of the braids will be a mess. These are just cell phone pictures since I wasn't really planning on this project tonight, but he was cooperative (despite the gnats driving us both nuts!) so I figured why not. It's hard to see his neck shape with his normal unbraided fluffy double mane, so the braids let it show! He is looking more grown up every day and I think is the most like Charli of all of her foals, but should be a bit bigger.


May 23, 2025- Last night at 6 PM Magic had his last nursing session with his dam. He is now on the wagon ;-) I did not sleep but a few hours last night worrying about them but so far so good and neither have been fussy so far. Magic has been routinely separated from Charli every afternoon for the last month or so, which helped the process immensely. I prefer this slow weaning method over the more drastic cut offs from the milk habit, and I also tend to wait later than I used to. Magic is 7 months now. Here he is before feeding today, with Kyrie (WAR Adikyrie) working as the champion babysitter again.


August 8, 2025- Magic has been neglected in the photo department this summer. The gnats bothered his eyes so much they kept watering, and though I've never had to use a fly mask on a foal, he was the first. KEEPING it on was a task in the beginning (at least when he got them off he didn't tear them up!). Then the heat made him sweat under the fly mask so much that he lost hair on his forehead. Needless to say my lil buddy was not very photogenic for awhile! We have had SO MUCH rain and cooler temps for the last week, with some days not making it out of the 60's, so today was catchup photo day for Magic before we inevitably head back to our regularly scheduled summer-in-Georgia temps. Here he is with my attention getter, the big ball. He is ten months old now.


Must do a couple laps!


Magic is a bit rump high and growing at the moment.


Can trot up or long and low- athletic, like the rest of his family.


THIS... colts! Shaking my head! Poor Kyrie puts up with his sh*t. Usually he doesn't bother her but me making him move for photos was a bit TOO exciting. Gelding is on the horizon for October so if you want him intact (and he is generally really good for a yearling colt!) let me know!


Definitely has the look of his family, from his dam Charli to her sire Gone Gold and his sire Adiel's Casino Gold.