- Skills / Disciplines
- Kid Safe, Longe Line, Trail, Trail Riding, Western Riding
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Uno French Fling (Holly) is a 2019 AQHA mare, Arizona born and raised. Holly stands at 14.1 with a compact build and feminine look. She is color tested chestnut (eeAAnd1nd1) and is 6 panel n/n, as well as PSSM type 2 n/n for all currently known variants. She is by JM Streakin Guy, a son of A Streak of Fling and whose dam is Frenchman’s Holey Sox (AQHA Superior calf and team roping and World Foundation Quarter Horse World Championship in the calf roping and heeling), and out of Unos Widow Rey an accomplished heel horse who is by top cutting competitor Widow Freckles.... (read more) Both sire and dam are money earning rope horses, and her pedigree is packed with several other greats such as, Frenchman’s Guy, Freckles Playboy, and Doc Olena.
Holly is a sweet, quiet, and gentle soul who loves attention and being pampered. She is a very non-marish mare (no kicking, biting, squealing, etc.) with a lot of personality. She has mostly lived with geldings but has been turned out with mares and geldings and gets along with both, always falling middle to bottom of the herd. She is the first to greet you in the turnout, will walk away from food to put her head in a halter, and even lay down and roll over for belly rubs. She has a ton of natural draw and would excel in liberty work. While she is NOT a finished kid’s horse, Holly absolutely loves kids and has a natural sense of caution around them taking care to slow her walking pace when being led by them and putting her head down to be brushed and haltered. She has been used for lead-line rides in an arena and on the trail, lunge line lessons, and has been ridden independently in a halter by children 10 and under in an enclosed, arena setting.
Holly has excellent ground manners and will stand tied all tied with no pawing or dancing, though she does occasionally like to chew on her lead rope. She doesn’t care about fly spray, clippers, hosing her face, etc., and stands quietly for the farrier, saddling and un-saddling. She walks in and out of the trailer without hesitation and has been hauled with and without dividers, saddled and un-saddled, alone and with other horses without issue. She has been extensively hauled to local arenas since she was a yearling for exposure, can be ridden in anything from a bosalita to a correction bit to bridle-less and is one-handed broke. She knows all the maneuvers; side pass, roll back, two track, counter-arcing, moves off your leg, knows her leads, has a good and correct spin started, will give you a small sliding stop if you know how to ask, and has a solid start to her flying lead changes. She rides around quietly in the arena and on the trail with no bucking, bolting, or funny business, but can sometimes be vocal if she hears other horses calling out. She is great with obstacles, including walking and side passing over ground poles and jumping small jumps, and has been exposed to mounted shooting and shot off. She is not being sold as a mounted shooting horse or prospect as she truly doesn’t enjoy it but she is not bothered by loud noises or the balloons. She has also been started and worked on the flag and a shocker cow for cutting. While she rides quietly in the arena, Holly seems to prefer the wide open spaces and sites of the trail and has logged many trail hours locally. She can be ridden out alone or with a group and will pony horses of any size without issue. You can open and close gates on her, and she will walk over through, and under most anything. She is not spooky but if something catches her eye she will pause for a closer look, then quietly approach to investigate further. She will walk all day and has a pace that will out-walk horses twice her size. She can also sit for months at a time and ride off like you rode her yesterday with no funny business. While she is very versatile, and broke, Holly would also make a great lesson horse, trail mount, or backyard horse for someone who just likes to casually ride around.
I have had Holly since she was 11 months old and know her every detail. She has never had any soundness issues, her only injury has been a torn eye lid that was sewn back on, she has always been kept up on care (vaccines, teeth, feet), has solid feet and has been kept barefoot, and is an easy keeper currently on a balanced forage only diet. She is a clean mare and poops in a corner but does like to make tea with her hay in her water bucket. She would not do well as an only horse as she likes the company of other horses, and she will likely take a little time to adjust to new surroundings since she has been with her current herd for practically her entire life.
I very rarely sell my personal horses and parting with Holly is an extremely difficult decision, but she does not enjoy the events I currently compete in and I want her to find the person that will make her their number one and love and pamper her like she deserves. She will only go to the perfect home for her!
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