Post by shelberttk2 on Apr 20, 2008 13:46:59 GMT -5
Reply to: sale-649373756@craigslist.org[/b]
Date: 2008-04-20, 10:35AM PDT
Due to a death in the family, Pony missed his auction date and due to other committments, won't be going to auction now for at least a month. Please give this spunky old guy a home with someone to braid his mane and tail and give him the attention he deserves.
Pony is a 1984 American Saddlebred gelding, 5 gaited, chestnut with flaxen mane and tail (lightens up a lot in the summer). He stands 15.2 hands and weighs about 900#. He is free to a good home, preferably with another horse or other companion. He is 90% sound with just a bit of arthritis in his right front. The pictures are from a few days ago.
He did a summer vaulting camp with several bareback youngsters on his back at the same time about 4 years ago. I have not ridden him in almost 3 years so he'd have to have some groundwork to get him back on board. He's built more along the lines of the shorter, cobbier Saddlebred lines. People who know a little (very little) about horses mistake him for an Arab all the time.
He's been ridden English, saddleseat (13 years), Western, pulled a stagecoach in a play with running horses with mounted riders shooting blanks all around him, jumped up to 3' (wouldn't do that anymore), perfect patterns, flag horse in parades, a little trail work and done dressage. He is 5 gaited and his sire is the Hulse's wonderful Champagne Fizz. Once he's familiar with you, he's a pocket horse, loves to be groomed and have his mane and tail braided. He's good with the farrier, okay with the vet. Normal feet; took us nearly 5 years to get his feet back to normal from the show circuit shoeing. Shouldn't go barefoot on pavement or gravelly trails, but that may not hold true with a child riding him. He is UTD on his shots (will need boosters in mid-April) and his teeth were floated last April. He does need a trim on his feet but not too bad. He was ridden in a twisted wire sweet iron snaffle and did just fine; neck reins and responds to legs as well. May need to be reminded of these things, it has been quite a while since he was ridden, but he remembers pretty well. He needs a companion, doesn't do well without one, tends to pace and lose weight. Horses, donkeys, llamas and goats all work for him. He absolutely cannot be around cattle or sheep; he will go thru one or two wire electric temporary fencing at feeding time or any time he feels like it to chase them. We did find that the widest electric horse tape keeps him in - so far - but gives him a smaller area plus he tends to really get antsy when he sees the bulls eating. He's fine with solid fencing, doesn't challenge it at all. He doesn't crib. He doesn't kick, buck, rear or bite and tolerates dogs going with him on rides so long as they don't snap at his heels.
Now for the not so good things about him. Besides the cattle/sheep problem, he's not fond of being tied; when he was young he was crosstied in a barn that caught fire and hasn't really gotten over that, altho he's gotten much better about it; never tie him and leave him alone, he won't be there when you get back. I usually just saddle and bridle him loose. Trailering is not a problem once he's IN the trailer; it's the getting in part that he needs help with. For 13 years he was trailered to shows all over the country, but once we bought him, we didn't have a trailer so for all but two of the 11 years we've owned him, he never got into one. We did work with him on that once several years ago with a trainer, going in and out of trailers as often as we could and he got a lot better, so it's just a matter of patiently reteaching him. He's a horse that goes INTO pressure instead of going away from pressure in vet situations, even under anesthesia, which his vets find interesting and annoying.
He takes a normal saddle, I've used both quarter trees and medium Arab trees on him with equal sucess. He might need a little extra padding these days, just have to play with it. Most folks think he's 13 or maybe a bit older; there's a lot left in the old man. At feeding time when he's feeling particularly spunky he rears and snorts and prances and does his sliding reining horse stops from a dead run, just having a great time of it. The only health problem he ever had with me was last April when he choked and colicked after chasing the steers off their feed and gobbling it down as fast as he could. He was fine the next day and hasn't had an episode since. Cattle pellets are not compatible with gobblers, as the vet explained, they tend to swell up and block the throat if wolfed down like he did. He is an easy keeper and should be kept on the lighter side in light of his age and the slight arthritis in his right front. The vet said that he could give him a cortisone shot there and he'd be just fine for several months with an adult rider of my weight (230) in light work.
If you have no intention of following thru on Pony, please don't contact me. I've had enough of that already. He needs a better home than I can give him; my main focus is my cattle and he's not compatible with that.
Thanks for looking.
Date: 2008-04-20, 10:35AM PDT
Due to a death in the family, Pony missed his auction date and due to other committments, won't be going to auction now for at least a month. Please give this spunky old guy a home with someone to braid his mane and tail and give him the attention he deserves.
Pony is a 1984 American Saddlebred gelding, 5 gaited, chestnut with flaxen mane and tail (lightens up a lot in the summer). He stands 15.2 hands and weighs about 900#. He is free to a good home, preferably with another horse or other companion. He is 90% sound with just a bit of arthritis in his right front. The pictures are from a few days ago.
He did a summer vaulting camp with several bareback youngsters on his back at the same time about 4 years ago. I have not ridden him in almost 3 years so he'd have to have some groundwork to get him back on board. He's built more along the lines of the shorter, cobbier Saddlebred lines. People who know a little (very little) about horses mistake him for an Arab all the time.
He's been ridden English, saddleseat (13 years), Western, pulled a stagecoach in a play with running horses with mounted riders shooting blanks all around him, jumped up to 3' (wouldn't do that anymore), perfect patterns, flag horse in parades, a little trail work and done dressage. He is 5 gaited and his sire is the Hulse's wonderful Champagne Fizz. Once he's familiar with you, he's a pocket horse, loves to be groomed and have his mane and tail braided. He's good with the farrier, okay with the vet. Normal feet; took us nearly 5 years to get his feet back to normal from the show circuit shoeing. Shouldn't go barefoot on pavement or gravelly trails, but that may not hold true with a child riding him. He is UTD on his shots (will need boosters in mid-April) and his teeth were floated last April. He does need a trim on his feet but not too bad. He was ridden in a twisted wire sweet iron snaffle and did just fine; neck reins and responds to legs as well. May need to be reminded of these things, it has been quite a while since he was ridden, but he remembers pretty well. He needs a companion, doesn't do well without one, tends to pace and lose weight. Horses, donkeys, llamas and goats all work for him. He absolutely cannot be around cattle or sheep; he will go thru one or two wire electric temporary fencing at feeding time or any time he feels like it to chase them. We did find that the widest electric horse tape keeps him in - so far - but gives him a smaller area plus he tends to really get antsy when he sees the bulls eating. He's fine with solid fencing, doesn't challenge it at all. He doesn't crib. He doesn't kick, buck, rear or bite and tolerates dogs going with him on rides so long as they don't snap at his heels.
Now for the not so good things about him. Besides the cattle/sheep problem, he's not fond of being tied; when he was young he was crosstied in a barn that caught fire and hasn't really gotten over that, altho he's gotten much better about it; never tie him and leave him alone, he won't be there when you get back. I usually just saddle and bridle him loose. Trailering is not a problem once he's IN the trailer; it's the getting in part that he needs help with. For 13 years he was trailered to shows all over the country, but once we bought him, we didn't have a trailer so for all but two of the 11 years we've owned him, he never got into one. We did work with him on that once several years ago with a trainer, going in and out of trailers as often as we could and he got a lot better, so it's just a matter of patiently reteaching him. He's a horse that goes INTO pressure instead of going away from pressure in vet situations, even under anesthesia, which his vets find interesting and annoying.
He takes a normal saddle, I've used both quarter trees and medium Arab trees on him with equal sucess. He might need a little extra padding these days, just have to play with it. Most folks think he's 13 or maybe a bit older; there's a lot left in the old man. At feeding time when he's feeling particularly spunky he rears and snorts and prances and does his sliding reining horse stops from a dead run, just having a great time of it. The only health problem he ever had with me was last April when he choked and colicked after chasing the steers off their feed and gobbling it down as fast as he could. He was fine the next day and hasn't had an episode since. Cattle pellets are not compatible with gobblers, as the vet explained, they tend to swell up and block the throat if wolfed down like he did. He is an easy keeper and should be kept on the lighter side in light of his age and the slight arthritis in his right front. The vet said that he could give him a cortisone shot there and he'd be just fine for several months with an adult rider of my weight (230) in light work.
If you have no intention of following thru on Pony, please don't contact me. I've had enough of that already. He needs a better home than I can give him; my main focus is my cattle and he's not compatible with that.
Thanks for looking.
