She’s a cutie! She’ll be gorgeous when she’s all grown up- she looks like she’s developing nicely and has good conformation. When she gets over the shoulder-butt-shoulder uneven growing stage, she’ll be great!
I also love pals. I’d love to get one thats high enough quality to show in the Quarter Horse and Palomino circuits around here- the pal people are awesome!
Are you planning to begin riding in the spring? And are you sure you want to do dressage with her? She looks like she’d be a good pleasure prospect 
My parents got me a QH weanling (grandson of Beaus My Daddy) about three years ago for Christmas. They thought that he would eventually be my replacement for my now 27 year old pleasure horse Rocky’s Dollar Bill- who is still going strong and is the most amazing horse ever.
I had “Jimmy” professionally trained for a few months, and he was definately promising- in fact, he had potential to do just about anything. He would have made an awesome English pleasure/eq horse, and possibly over fences when he got older. The first day I had him, he was in the pen with Billy and my sister’s pony, and they kept pinning him in the corner against the gate, and he jumped out three times, and oh, the perfect jumping form!
I never really got along with the colt that well (our personalities clashed horribly) and even though he had an amazing canter/lope that was the smoothest thing you’d ever sit to, and he stopped on a dime -I forgot that once when riding an english equitation pattern on him and was nearly pitched off over his head, I learned to ask him to stop mid-stride on the stride before we hit the end cone, and he’d end up standing still with his shoulder even with the cone- but we didn’t work out. He was a smart kid, but we just didn’t click. Plus he was chestnut. :shock:
He’s in Oklahoma now, doing cattle work and I guess he’s loving it. We sold him to a family friend who moved there because ranches and farms are much cheaper there than in MN, and I know they are taking excellent care of him.
The predominant horse in my life is a QH- I absolutely love my Billy (Rockys Dollar Bill), and he’s an amazing horse. I took him to the State 4-H Horse show this year, and we took 8th in English Pleasure out of a whole bunch of young horses. He’s also been to the state horse show for the past six years with me. I started taking lessons on him at the age of 8, and bought him at 10. One of the finest horses there is.
Cheers, and good luck with her!
I’m pleasantly surprised with how intelligent and quick to learn she is. She’s VERY quiet for an 18 month old horse. When I’m doing ground work with her, other horses will spook in the arena, she just stops and stares. Very quiet. She’s also has an awesome personality, very sweet, and very curious. Apparently these are traits that her father throws to 90% of his foals.