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Dec 7 08 9:27 AM
fallenupright wrote: Her name was Sweetie, she was a 14.1hh registered QH, but I don't recall her registered name. She'd shown Western pleasure, or else been really well schooled in it, but the barn owner found her at an auction really cheap. Tiny sour ex show horses who are not breeding sound didn't sell back then either. She broke off the barn door the day she arrived - someone tied her to it. I begged to ride her, the man was hesitant... she wasn't proving to be the best. Went out for a trail with my friends, the other two horses bolted, Sweetie w tried, but came back well in hand when I asked. I caught her by running up to the round bale flapping my arms and yelling - when I was done, she'd be calmly eating alone, the rest of the horses would have scattered. I rode her bareback in a halter and lead snapped to the middle (not even done up like reins), and I could make her spin, canter from a standing start... anything. I rode her english, jumped her... raced her against friends horses. Looped my reins across the horn and galloped her with my arms out like an aeroplane, laughing into the wind. She wasn't for sale, not for any price I could afford. You could put tiny kids on her, she was the best schooled horse on the property (a trail riding business) and she was sound. She, I hear, started to get arthritis in her early 20's and was sold to a woman who took her and loved her and gave her a semi retirement home. Which, is a much better fate than most of those horses... as they were sold at auction and I've heard nothing of them since. I'm sure at least a few went to meat, the lame and the old She was my dream horse. Guess she still is.
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