Ridecamp: [RC] Hopefully the search is over!

Hi Everyone!  Well, Im sure a few of you had seen my post of my troubles of 
finding a horse.  Well........ BOY OH BOY.... today, I made up my mind.  And 
some may even laff about this.  The very first horse I went to look at was a 
arab/saddlebred gelding.  Grey, 14,3hh.  A little skinny, also narrow.  
Green broke.  But beautiful floating trot.  Well, I rode him all over and 
really liked him... but worried that I was jumping on a new horse to 
fast.....and also, thought maybe I was to fat to ride him.  After all, I 
have been told that one to many times.  Well today, we had 4 horses lined up 
to see.  This is after looking at about 10 other, taking one home and 
sending it back and crying some nights because I thought I was never going 
to find the right horse(But my thoughts always turned back to the first 
horse I saw, but I figured they had sold it already, he is a GREAT deal)  
So, first horse...... 18 yr old QH/APPY cross...it would be for me for a 
while, then for my mom to use.  Girl says on phone, a LITTLE skinny.  SO, I 
get there and there is this POOR half dead horse.  He has lice so bad, it 
has made him anemic(sp?)  he wasn't that skinny, but could barely stand.  
Almost fell down when I asked him to walk.  His resting pulse rate was 
28(HOLY CRAP) and I checked it 3 times.  I thought I was wrong.  So my mom 
checked it, and same thing.  So.......we politely said........NO THANKS.  
Next horse.... 6 yr old standardbred mare, broke to ride/drive.  Well we get 
there, and I was going to cry.  They had 3 horses, all about 300lbs 
underweight. I had to leave right away...... I'm not into the rescue 
business, or if I was, I would own 4 new horses right now.  Then Off to 
another farm, 1 standardbred mare, reg, broke to ride.  One pinto gelding, 
broke to ride.  Well we get there, and they are about 200lbs 
OVERweight....haha, that is not SO bad.  So she gets on the standardbred.  
Buck, rear, snort, runs back to feild buddy.....no thanks.  Get on the 
pinto(does not know what breed)  Very nice face, but funny but, looks 
perovian....no.......not likely.  So she gets on...... TOLTING away. There 
are big covers on the sturrips, for good reason.  He reached around and 
grabbed the cover and attacked it..........thank god not her foot.  Rear, 
tries to ride to feild buddy, a little better trained....... no thanks.  
And, take into account, all these horses are in the $2000 range.  I say, 
thats it, I give up.  So I say......mom, Im going to call the lady with the 
arab that I looked at 5 weeks ago.  Sure enough, not sold and would LOVE for 
me to come see him.  I go there and he sees me and trots to the fence and 
whinny's(owner is still in the house, and when my mom tried to pet him, he 
backed away, only wanted me to pet him).  So the owner comes out, I saddle 
him up, hop and, and she says, "oh, yeah, you were the last one to ride him" 
 So I walk/trot him around his field, get off, and say, yes, I want him.  
So, he comes home to me on tuesday.  Sometimes, I guess a horse is ment for 
you.  I think he should have sold... 5 weeks at the price she was asking, 
someone should have snapped him up.  But no.  Now, I get to have my new 
gelding, Prozac's joy ride.  AND I want to thank all of you, that said, do 
not listen to what others said.  I did that, and was willing to pass up my 
future endurance horse because of a few nasty ppl saying im to fat to be 
riding.  OH AND ALSO, he has lived with, cows, goats and pigs.....im ok 
there:) So, now, I get my new horse, and put him into training soon.  He 
needs a little weight, and we need to bond, but I think we are half way 
there already.  The owner said, I was only the 5th rider to ride him and 
second rider to ever take him out on trails.... she was so happy I came back 
because most of the ppl that she had met, she did not like.  So, I will keep 
you all updated on how we are doing, and when we do our first ride!!!!!(not 
for a while yet)  And also, I hope an arab/saddlebred is good for endurance, 
but even if not, he is to great to pass up:)
Sarah(No more running around pretending to be riding)
Soon to be horse "prozac"(Im gonna miss all my buddies)


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