Re: sale horse - do we want her?

I must have given an exaggerated impression in my attempts to be
humerous. I have only had one or two sale horses who bridle the way I
would consider nicely, and who accept dewormer the way I would consider
nicely, who steer perfectly, etc etc etc. These are all the common
things I have to fix before selling the horse.

So I cut and pasted from my first post the parts the first two reply
authors must not have read:

cindi wrote:

So we've worked her several times already. Bridling is good now,
deworming is good after a few minutes of work, giving to the bit is
getting better. She will now relax and just walk, and she seems so
happy to have discovered that it's OK to do that here. Steering at all
speeds is much much MUCH better. She is safe as far as not bucking,
not rearing, not spooking,
Today she happily walked on the buckle for 45 minutes without
offering to speed up and then did some jogging with only a tiny tiny
bit of shouldering over... Outside the arena she is an angel. Never
tries to eat grass, goes where pointed, will go alone or in a group,
the group can lope off and leave her behind or she can lope off and
leave them with no issues whatsoever, not a single spook.

Plus stuff I didn't mention in my post:

- gentle and safe to ride bareback in a halter
- gentle and safe with handling her feet
- has an awesome stop with seat and voice
- ties, leads, lunges, trailer-loads, great for grooming and bathing
- and to reiterate, she has not spooked once since being here, not when
leading around the tractors and trucks, not during the thunderstorms,
not during the pounding rain on the metal roof of the arena while being
ridden, not at the chickens or dogs or little kids or tarps or barrels
or anything else.

She has/had some confusion about a few things when she first got her,
particularly how she is to respond to stuff being put into her mouth,
rein pressure, and being asked to speed up a bit, but she is learning
quickly and never gets mad at her rider and tries hard, and like I said
in my original post, the few problems she came with are tremendously
better already. I don't know about you, but I don't call that sort of
horse a puke.

cindi

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