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Beautiful, healthy & stout. She easily handles larger riders. I have had her since September 2021 (5yrs) as a 2nd horse for guests and friends. Due to my parents on going health issues and now some of my own. Neither of my horses are getting ridden. I have ridden her trailered out completely alone by myself, we have encountered electric cyclists, joggers, brush-pickers, dogs and deer as well as other horses. She has no preference in a group. I have ridden her bareback and with a bitless bridle many hours in the very middle of the night deep into the woods on my property while wearing a headlamp. We had one hard spook when an owl flushed down full open wingspan and my headlamp made him look like a bright white 8 foot pterodactyl that was going to eat us … I went one direction and she went the other. I fell off but she did not leave me, she just took it up as a grazing opportunity. I got back on and rode her back out. If she spooks it’s a startle in place, no bolt and she will give you plenty of time and warning if you listen to her body and watch her ears and recognize her pause. I bought her as a Beginner safe anyone can ride 2nd horse but as a novice rider myself she is sensitive to “asks” and a beginner level rider who does not know their seat or legs or leg pressure is confusing to her. Beginners tend to accidentally kick, squeeze or yank her reins wrong. She wants to please and know what you want so an intermediate confident rider or up is best. No kick, no buck, no bite, she is sound and healthy. Barefoot hoofcare every 6wks, hard beautiful feet. She has never missed a trim or an annual exam and I have available 5 years of her printed vet WellCare records. She is UTD on floats, vaccines April 26, and feet always on schedule. She does take time to trust her new person especially with all this off time. We have bushwhacked through trails, cut off high hanging branches over her and even ridden through ground hornets where I didn’t even know other then more whooshing of her tail and rear leg stomping. I rode out only to find hornets still up under her belly stinging her. As I have not been riding at all and was consistently almost daily she will need a tune up and I recommend bonding with her on groundwork first to get to know her, she otherwise is not now where we were. We had our trailering so easily down. I have a slant load with a walk up ramp. Currently she now has hesitation and a bit of temporary attempt to back out or right at hooking her halter. I tore my meniscus in my human knee two years ago and I am unstable walking and I am very lacking my own confidence. So I also have hesitation because of my personal mobility. She stands for grooming, picks up feet, she is a very easy keeper on Timothy and a scoop of horseguard. She does have a fear of vets and farrier but easily managed with dormasedan an hr before that is on autoship.
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