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Re: 9 year old connemara-and others
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^^ Yeah we are pretty meh about the connie after the latest picture, I am waiting on a promised (curent) video of her cantering to make the final descion, but I really didn't like how thin she was.
^ Thanks! I would really appreciate any pony/hony's you can dig up. We've looked around but haven't seen anything.
However, I'm definately not the one pushing for a younger/untrained horse. I've told her she's going to need to go older and have turned down so many of the horses she's sent to me that were under 5. I've told her she is going to need to to get something thats AT LEAST 10, which experience in something. I've told her several times that their daughter isn't ready. So far of the 3 horses we have looked at, I've allowed her to hop on 1, who was a 16 year old QH with tons of trail experience that I allowed her to trot in the round pen. The other two she wasn't allowed on at all, even with a lead and I told them no straight off the bat.
They ended up looking at one without me (she brought her "experienced 10 years ago showed some WP" sister) that I told her hell no after I saw the video and pictures and flipped out that they let her ride that horse without me. This is the same sister that is pushing an OTTB. I've told her she is going to need to sacrifice age for experience, but am trying to get something that is in the middle. I'm really pushing that older gelding that was posted earlier in the thread.
When I originally posted this thread, I thought the Connie looked like a good prospect. She has her faults, but with FH and x country experience, she's not totally green over fences. Also she's 9, so not real young.
I have made sure she knows her daughters shortcomings. Anytime she starts to get cocky thinking her daughter is better then she is, I go through the videos and show her everything that she is doing wrong and what would happen if its a green horse that is going to take advantage of her, or be ruined by her thumping them in the back or yanking in the mouth.
Anyway, if you have any that you turn up I would really really appreciate it. I completely understand the made horse vs. the green, and the steady eddie vs. the TB, which is why I refused to sell them my pony, when they asked if they could buy her. If I was unethical, don't you think I would have jumped on selling her? I purchased her as a sale project, but she's not ready to go to a child, and she's a 13.1 1/2 FANCY pony, easy hack winner with a cute jump when she gets her spots right (still working on that, but haven't done much jumping because of her age).
I told them she's more then welcome to ride her walk/trot in my round pen under my direct supervision until they find something, but that they needed something with more experience and that Samantha wasn't even ready to canter her, let alone ride her on a regular basis.
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