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Miss Carmel was Smokie's buddy, and she was supposed to be my brother Don's horse, but he was never very interested in horses.
I would occasionally take Carmel out on a ride, but Smokie was my best friend, so I usually spent lots more time with him.
Carmel was a half Arabian, half Quarter Horse mare. One of her pasture mates (not Smokie) had kicked her in a hind tendon shortly after we purchased her, so she was unrideable for a whole season. (You can still see the bump on her left hind tendon in the photo. And this photo was taken about a year after the injury!)
It was nice having two horses, as I could invite friends over to ride. Carmel was in her teens at the time, and was trained well. Unless she was in heat, she was very safe to put novices on.
This particular stable had the rule that if one wanted one's horses turned out during the day, one had to leave their halters on. (This apparently made it easier for the stablehands, who were mostly inexperienced and changed often, to catch them at feeding time.) This meant that the horses wore their halters day and night, inside their stalls and in the pasture. This is not something that I can recommend. It is very unsafe, as horses can catch the halters on fence posts or feed bins or whatever they find in stall or pasture and severely injure or kill themselves. However, the alternative in this case was never having them turned out at all, which would have been unthinkable.