🌸✨ Meet Velvet ✨🌸 ((located in bend oregon)) Velvet is a gorgeous bay (reservation) mustang mare who will absolutely steal your heart. She stands at 13.1hh, is 11yo, and has the kindest soul you could ever imagine. She is completely up to date on all of her shots, deworming, teeth, and farrier, and is ridden three to four times a week. She is the type of pony you can pull out after time off and trust to stay consistent, gentle, and reliable. Velvet is truly versatile—she can be the perfect show pony one day and then carry a child around a lesson the very next. She has such a soft and loving personality and especially adores kids. My younger sister and I trained her ourselves after she was caught off the reservation in Warm Springs, and with the help of some incredible coaches we brought her along into the dream horse she is today (we’ve owned her since 2022) She has been used as a lesson pony for riders of all ages, and she has taken countless kids through their first rides, first canters, and even first jumps. She has absolutely no buck, rear, or spook, and is the kind of mare you can put anyone on and know they’ll be safe. Velvet has plenty of experience in the show ring and has been successful in hunters, jumpers, and even dressage. When we first started showing together, she went in the cross rails, and in April of 2024 she confidently took me around 2’7–3ft jumper courses. My ten-year-old sister has competed her at 2’3–2’6, and a friend of mine has also taken her to dressage rally. currently weve been staying pretty low with jumping. working alot of flat work and sometimes doing short 1-1.5ft courses. We’ve been very very light on work recently because i’ve been very busy but she’s still fit and healthy for her next rider 💕 She’s brave, careful, and honest to jumps, and her gaits are smooth, easy, and comfortable to sit. She’s the type of pony who can teach a beginner but also step up and be competitive for a rider who wants to go win ribbons. Outside of the jumper ring, Velvet is currently at a western barn and through she isn’t trained to be ridden western she is completely unfazed by cows or the roping dummy. she’s is just as easy and trustworthy. She stands quietly for the farrier, vet, grooming, and tacking, and she loads and hauls without a problem. She settles into new places calmly,and is currently turned out in a herd of ten where she gets along beautifully with every horse. She has always been a little girthy, not anything health related. we believe it could be due to past experiences since she wasn’t ours for the start of her backing journey, or just attitude 🥲 we did have a scare in sept 2024. she had sand colic. but it has never been a problem other than at that moment. and surgery was not needed. but it was a bad situation, and we moved barns afterwards. she is very healthy and happy now- no more colicky behavior and is very careful when it comes to injuries, other than that colic scare, she’s very sound