- Skills / Disciplines
- Dappled, Endurance, Flashy, Project, Trail, Trail Riding, Youth
Additional Comments
Cute 15h MFT 12yo great on the trail. I bought this horse from a person who purchased it for her teenage grand daughter to ride. They just poked around in the paddock and had been ridding him in a snaffle bit.
He has a fresh 6 weeks and about 200 miles of trail ridding on him. He is very happy on the trail, rides out alone, fine with farm equipment. Stands ground tied for 15-20 min. Good with feet, just had sheath and teeth done, current cogins.... (read more) No buck, spooks n place, has been good with farm traffic. Have a folder of papers on shots etc. Has a DNA test if you wish to send in for registration papers.
His gait is about a 7 and will come up to a 9 with another 3-4 weeks of slow ridding. He has a nice smooth quarter horse speed gait right now, additional work on collection should get you a second faster gait. He has a nice canter but needs some push to understand it is ok to canter. I don't think anyone ever let him canter under saddle.
He does not pace, he just forgot how to use the collection muscles as he was ridden in a snaffle. I have him in a Myler walking horse ring bit which he loves.
He has big kind eyes and a gentle disposition. When he is concerned he looks for his people to help. He is in your pocket and easy to catch, loves work.
Usually I would keep this horse and put another 30 to 60 day on him which then gets him to a 6-7k price, but I just purchased gaited mules which need a lot of time and work.
While he is for sale we will still be ridding and training and the price will adjust up.
So if you want a good solid horse with color, cute and a palomino is you guy.
I have a lighter cream horse slightly larger, heavier that has 90+ days on him and 95% finished for 7k also for sale.
See add for Sid.
I re-train gaited horses, help owners, and re-home horses who are miss matched with their owners ridding abilities. We train gaited horses to think slow, confidently and ask the ridder for what they want. You want a horse to think to you, and about you, as their leader, the brain bone is the most important part of a horse. Most of the horses I work with just are not fully trained, they still think like they are alone, and that is what gets you in trouble out on the trail.... (read more) I like to ride and train horses that don't make me look like a good ridder, just good solid trail horses.
I grew up in Montana where we had 3000 acres ran cattle and always had a couple dozen of the cheapest Montana auction horses on hand. In my younger years I would ride any horse you could tie to a post long enough to get on as I though that made me a good ridder. Active in mounted search and rescue, cattle drives, and working ranch horses. I have also participated in mounted police horse training and providing therapy horses over the years. If you see a white hair woman out horse camping with three horses and still ridding in the rain that might be me.
I also enjoy my own small heard of my own 6-8 horses including Fred at 36 who still loves to go out for trail rides, and maybe a gaited mule in the oven for spring foal.
My real job supports my horse passion.