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Penelope (JC: Lying Karen)
FOR PICS/VIDEO: https://www.notforgotten.farm/penny
2018 OTTB 15.3h bay mare El Padrino - Simmerette by El Prado (IRE)
Fun, willing to please, and super versatile! Built for the hunter ring, but easy enough and willing to play in other rings, be a lesson horse, family horse, etc.
We don’t typically change Jockey Club names, but we couldn’t keep Lying Karen. Penny is not a Karen! She’s very personable and wants her own person. We purchased Penny in May 2023 as a project/ lesson/ lease horse. She needed fitness and training when we purchased her and took our time doing it. She was originally re-started as an event prospect and has schooled cross country. We had to re-restart her to help transition her to the hunter ring. She was on a half lease to an adult amateur who brought her young kids out to the barn. Penny allowed the kids to brush her and feed her treats. She can be hacked out by herself and ridden bareback with a rope halter. Our 9 year old son, who isn't a rider, can sit on her and walk her by himself. She’s self-described as the “best of the bunch” - per an animal communicator session and it’s true. Penny is also the source of many fun TikTok’s with our farrier @umsteadfarrier.
Penny is the hack winner, jumps well, and has a lead change (you have to ask for the change). She is so soft and light in the mouth. She’s shown in 18”-2’ hunter and occasionally does the 2’-2’3” jumpers and lead line for fun. She moved up to the 2’6” TB and Low Adult Hunters for 2025. She's a great 2’6” TB hunter, but can still play in the jumpers, do pony club, low level eventing, pleasure, etc. In August '24, We had a judge pull her rider aside to comment that she recognizes the mare was green, but said she’s a very nice horse and encouraged us to keep developing her.
Penny is measured at 15.3h, but she’s not wide. She would be best for a smaller adult or a kid moving off of ponies onto a horse. Penny would make a great lease horse for a riding program. She could be a novice/intermediate lesson horse on the flat and lower jumps. While she isn't ready to pack a kid around the 2'6" yet, we think she could go in that direction in the near future. Penny would also make a good family horse (parent and child could share her) and easy enough for someone to keep her at home. Though Penny is little, she has a big enough step to make it down the lines. Overall, Penny is fun and wonderful to be around.
No known lameness issues. Penny has a cold splint on the left hind and a bump on her right hind cannon bone.
This horse is a lot of fun to have in the barn and is going to be incredible with more horse show miles.
Low 5s- offers accepted as the business phases out of offering lessons and leases
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