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Re: [RC] starting horses late - Karen Bohn

Up until recently I've always gotten young horses (4 mos. - 3 yo).  The babies I raised and started myself.  The "older" ones had had some training and were rideable.  My main riding horse, a 9-yo Paso Fino (acquired as a 3-yo) came down with EPM which took a year to diagnose.  A friend felt sorry for me and offered me an 8-yo Arabian mare.  Six months before she had 60 days of training.  Before that she was running with a herd of their other horses.  She launched me the first time I got on her, and now that I'm approaching senior citizen status, I was reluctant to get back on and was ready to send her back.  However, I sent her to a local trainer for a month and WOW -- she is turning out to be one of the nicest horses I've ever ridden.  She amazes me everytime I ride her and I plan on doing our first 50 in October.  I never thought I'd end up with a basically unbroke older horse, let alone a mare (she's my first ever).  Where I once would be reluctant to take on an older horse, now I feel that they are MUCH easier to work with than the flighty youngsters.   This is, of course, based on a one-horse study.
 
Karen
 
Karen Bohn
Spotsylvania, VA
www.mattariver.com
----- Original Message -----
From: sherman
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:43 PM
Subject: [RC] starting horses late

Karen wrote:

I am curious about those of you who would buy an unstarted 7 year old and start riding or working.....how many months or years do you figure in for "legging up", etc.

 

Sonny was not broke because his owner lost interest, he was one of three horses she had. The horses were being boarded so a little inconvenient too, maybe. She did take care of the horses while he was young and he had been imprinted and handled enough while very young. His ground manners weren?t great when he got exicted or worried. He grew up free roaming, 10 acre minimum pasture size, with a seasonal deep wide creek and a couple other horses to run & play with. I put him under saddle last year, hedid his first 50 last fall, 3 more 50s this year, and then Tevis. He was very fit and athletic when I got him or I would not have done a 50 or 100 so quickly.

 

Kathy

 

 


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