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[RC] My endurance/buggy horse !!!! - Jody Rogers-Buttram

Hello Ridecampers !!!
 
I am so excited !!!   I have been looking for a carriage for my horses.  I wanted a pretty, 4 wheel carriage to teach my younger horses to pull.  Well, I finally traded for one and it was delivered today.  It is an antique, built in 1894, has the fringe top and is black with red seats...it's a two seater.  Anyway, I had bought the black leather buggy harness back in the summer.  So, the carriage came today, and of course we thought....who can we hook to this sucker.  My back up horse, Petit Jets Aries....aka Dummy to those in the SE region was the lucky horse.  She is 16 years old and I have known her since birth.   She has never seen a set of harness.  But, she is the most "want to please" horse I have ever owned.  She balks at nothing.  We put the gear on her, took her outside.  Put in between the shafts, and I said....lets just let her stand there a minute.  Well, to make the story short.  Hooked her up and off she went....like she had done this her whole life!!!   We drove her down the paved road to the country store 1 mile away...she had dogs bark at her, traffic, roofers working on a house making all sorts of noise.  Not one bobble.  She was such a good girl.   So, tomorrow I hope to clean up the carriage some (it has dust all over it) and take some pics of her pulling it.  I will post them on RC.  And it was not horse friendly weather today either....cold, and the wind was blowing.
 
Ok, Susan.....I will stop being so mean to Dummy now.  I found a good reason to like her.  :))  That's pretty neat when she can win and BC the Biltmore 100 and 6 months later become a buggy horse !!!!
 
Jody and Rose ( who says "you will be picking up the splitters for miles if you hook me to it")
And Aries....the REAL buggy horse.


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