Digital painting of a Quarterhorse after working cows.
Cutting Cows Quarterhorse painting ©2009 Michelle Wrighton
100% crop to show detail of Quarterhorse painting
Greeting cards, laminated, matted, canvas and framed prints of “Kookaburra” can be purchased from my Redbubble shop: 
Show Horse Pet Portrait Painting by Michelle Wrighton
The Standardbred Pleasure and Performance Horse Association of WA held the annual Winter Gala at the Perth Horse and Pony Club grounds in Herdsman. I am totally biased towards the breed (having two of my own) and I strongly believe that they are *the* most under-rated breed in the horse world. Thankfully more people like those that turned out for this show are seeing the incredible possibilities with this versatile breed as pleasure and preformance horses.
And I have to say that the presentation of these Standardbreds is absolutely impeccable and puts alot of other ‘fancy’ breeds to shame!
Coloured Standardbred © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Part bred Standardbred © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Dressage © South West Photography
All of the proof images for the In Hand, Ridden and the Dressage tests can be viewed and ordered online at South West Photography.
Well after getting a taste of Cutting action at the last bit of the Ian Francis Cutting Clinic that I saw after the Paint Horse Champs back in February, I couldn’t miss the opportunity to watch two days of cutting on the 16th and 17th May.
Cutting Horse © South West Photography
Cutting Horse © South West Photography
Cutting Horse © South West Photography
Cutting Horse © South West Photography
Cutting Horse © South West Photography
Cutting Horse © South West Photography
All images from both days events can be viewed and prints purchased online at South West Photography
What a fantastic turn-out there was the the Summer Show Offs Horse Breed Show at Gosnells! So many beautiful horses it was hard to know where to point my camera!
The full set of proofs can be viewed at South West Photography but here are a few of my favourites from the day:
Andalusian horse - © South West Photography
Andalusian © South West Photography
A bow for the paparazzi - © South West Photography
Black Andalusian © South West Photography
Bay portrait - © South West Photography
Clydesdale - © South West Photography
© South West Photography
Chestnut Standardbred Gelding © South West Photography
Chestnut Standardbred portrait © South West Photography
The full set of proofs for both the In Hand and Ridden competition at the Gosnells Summer Show Offs 2009 can be viewed and print purchase at South West Photography
