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Re: [RC] how did you find your horse? - desertrydr1

Funny story that Dawn told.  For me, all anyone has to do to get me to buy their horse is let me ride it about three times, then I'm in love.  Fortunately, no one has done that lately, as I already have 6.  

The first one I got from the breeder.  She was 6, and returned to the breeder because she was too much horse for the green rider that bought her at 4.  She was FAT.  And she wouldn't walk--it was jig, jig, jig everywhere.  I just wanted a horse to ride, so I started riding her.  Had to lunge her at least a half hour every time I wanted to ride, or the owner thought she "wasn't ready"  Of course, we all know what happens to a horse that gets lunged a half hour a day then ridden for an hour or two--they get REALLY fit--at least compared to the owner's western pleasure horses.  I stripped about 200# off her in 5 months, and she taught me to ride.  She spooked at EVERYTHING for the first two years or so--not the little spooks, the big suck back and spin 180 spooks.  

Then my boyfriend and I took her up to the mountains, and I truly fell in love.  She was great (except for jumping a little bit of water and knocking me off on a big tree/rock/something on the other side and breaking my rib).  A while after we got back from the mountains, someone else came to look at her to buy, and I just about had a nervous breakdown.  I cried for three solid days, til my mom took pity on me and loaned me the $500 to buy her.  I wasn't working, and didn't have a place to keep her or money to board her.  But she was mine.

I still have her 16 years later, and she is the most awesome horse I will ever own.  She has had three babies, all better than herself.  She will go ANYWHERE I point her (we still argue occasionally a bit) and I would never put anybody else on her, because she knows just what trick to try.  But she and I have had thousands of miles together (about 400 of them LD miles) and I would not trade her for any other horse on the face of the earth.

jeri


Dawn said:  
 
"My other horse (Bear) was kind of a fluke...I wasn't even shopping.  I was borrowing a friend's horse, waiting for the CMK gelding to grow up (he was just shy of 3 when I bought him).  The friend had another gelding she was trying to sell.  I wasn't interested...I'm not into Egyptian horses.  He was almost straight Egyptian.  He was very green and spooky, a few months shy of 6 yrs old.  I offered to take him home and put some trail miles on him to settle him down and make him more marketable.  He moved kinda nice.  Ok, so he moved real nice.  He kinda liked the trails.  Actually, he really liked the trails.  He was nice and forward.  Nice trot.  Smooth canter.  Didn't have that nice big deep hip I like, but an adequate one, and the boy could go down the trail.  Nice personality.  Good legs.  Sensible, not a dingbat.  He was 14.3 1/2h, so not too tall, a nice height (I like 'em short).  I started to like him, and didn' t take long till I REALLY liked him.  She made me an offer I couldn't refuse, but I did refuse, but my husband told me I needed to buy him (I love this man!), so I did.  Oh...and then the damn horse grew 2 inches in the next 10 months!!!  I still tease my friend that I want my money back.  <G>  He's turned out ok...awesome metabolics, has done 3 100s, etc.  :)  Except for that height thing..."
 

Replies
Re: [RC] how did you find your horse?, Lynne Glazer
Re: [RC] how did you find your horse?, Carla Richardson
Re: [RC] how did you find your horse?, Dawn Carrie