View Full Version : Going to look at This Guy
Love4Pits
04-24-2005, 07:55 PM
Saje knows im really interested in getting a horse this summer or sooner. Well I am ALWAYS looking for an Arabain or Appaloosa or a cross of the two. Well I was looking online just aimlessly searching and came upon a beautiful Appy/Arab Cross colt up for sale for $2,015. I contacted them by phone just being drawn in by the colt. They live about and hour away and so next weekend (sunday) im going to check him out :D . IM SOOOOOOO EXCITED AHHHH!!!
Here's a pic of him
http://tinypic.com/4pta8m
darkchild16
04-24-2005, 07:58 PM
hes cute if you lived closer id give you one of my pleasure ones cheap but canadas to far lol nice cross tho he almost looks like renegade the fsu mascot
mrose_s
04-24-2005, 08:01 PM
i dont really like arabs much
but he'll grow into a lovely horse
hope you get him
poodlesmom
04-24-2005, 09:34 PM
I love his coloring/markings! Good luck! :)
Love4Pits
04-24-2005, 09:51 PM
oh yes im excited :)
darkchild16
04-24-2005, 09:56 PM
i was in the beg. im not that much anymore
Its been years since Ive dealt with any horses but the lady that owned the farm had an Arab and an Appy, both geldings both sweet and willing to please, the Appy was kinda dumb but he was great for fox hunting. I dont remember what she used the Arab for but he couldnt pull worth a ****.
He's gorgeous Scarlette! Look at those legs. Oh I think you'll be pleased with him. Can you get any more pics of him?
BTW I got Pasetyna for $1000 but they were asking $2000 :D
darkchild16
04-25-2005, 08:50 AM
howd you get that one saje?
How'd I get Pasetyna? My trainer told me about her. She was supposed to be a project horse. Buy her for cheap, train her and resell. Of course I'm keeping her forever!
darkchild16
04-25-2005, 01:38 PM
ahhh i was just wondering because i hardly go down that low unless its my friend or something
Rose's Gal
04-25-2005, 01:48 PM
He is gorgeous! I love Arabs and Appys. Those and the Clydsdales are my fav. breeds of horses. (ALthough I have a soft spot for Welsh Ponies. lol)
Gustav
04-25-2005, 01:56 PM
He's gonna be tall!!! Make sure you don't get too excited when you go to see him though, as you may end up buying something you really shouldn't!! Look him over as thoroughly as you would a dog you were thinking of buying!! Good luck though he looks cute!!
darkchild16
04-25-2005, 01:59 PM
you are going to have a horse with attitude tho lol
Love4Pits
04-25-2005, 02:16 PM
Im prepared for that grew up around Appys and I got to the point where none could intemidate me lol. And I have leased an Arabian Mare (had to quit leasing her last year) for three years. So I think im pretty ready.
Oh and i will for sure look him over well :)
You'll be fine. I think he looks great. I'm a little jealous
darkchild16
04-25-2005, 02:21 PM
arab and appy is not a temp. id be able to use
I told Scarlette this story before but it's a great story and appropriate for this thread.
When I was about 19ish I was working for a trainer and she put me in charge of all the young yearlings who were going into the halter classes in the summer shows.
There was this one young colt who was an appy-arab cross. he looked exactly like an appy (not like this horses here) He had a big appy butt and the short tail. The whole works. BUT his attitude was arab - which I adore.
Arabs have this special trait where they can stick their tails straight up in the air. Most horses will flop them to one side or the other
So, one day I'm working this horse and there's no one in the arena. It was my last horse of the day I think and there just wasn't anyone around. So I free-lunge him in the arena. Meaning I exercise him without a line. And he sticks his short appy tail straight in the air like an arab. It was like a flag pole lol. It was the cutest thing
And he bucks and gets all the kinks out. I didn't know this but some of the people that owned the arena were watching and they put on some dressage music and he started moving to it. Boy could that little horse move! He danced all over the arena. It was wonderful.
The dressage people came up to me after and were complimenting him and saying with a horse that moves like that he really should be in dressage...
I had a good laugh that day.
Later, at the shows, the whole arena was filled with laughter when he pranced in with his flag-pole tail. He didn't win but he was a crowd favourite!
darkchild16
04-25-2005, 02:31 PM
the arabs are to hardheaded for what i do i could just imagine that though to bad you couldnt get a pic of that
arabs aren't hard-headed at all. They are completely the opposite. They are too smart. You have to out think an arab. You can't overpower one or intimdate it into doing something. Arabs are wonderful. Thinking they are hard-headed is probably your first mistake with them
darkchild16
04-25-2005, 02:35 PM
my friends is to smart to do anything but what he wants which to me is being harheaded
gaddylovesdogs
04-25-2005, 03:32 PM
He's adorable. I love Appaloosas.
Love4Pits
04-25-2005, 03:58 PM
The Arab Mare I used to lease was named Topic she was dark dark gray and beautiful. The women i leased her from really hated Topic she just would'nt listen to her and she was alittle to rough with Topic. I was at a fair and I saw Topic she was for sale as it said on her stall door. She was pacing franticaly and was just going nuts needless to say no one was interested. I could'nt afford to buy her but offered to lease her and keep her on my property which we agreed i could do.
She was quite the miss priss you had to pretty much ask everytime before you did something with her you could'nt man handle her because she would man handly ya right back. I would have paid all my leases of with her this newyears even but last year I really could'nt afford to lease her anymore. But since she had improved so much she was sold not long after i broke my lease.
The women even agreed to hold her for a year for me but in about a month she was sold.
Topic was way to smart and like Saje said I was constantly having to out think her but respect her i had to rise to her level and we had a great partnership.
There will never be anouther horse like Topic but i hope to find a close second and maybe i will in this colt.
Gustav
04-25-2005, 04:01 PM
I once had a boss who said "You ask a mare and tell a gelding!!" I've always found this to be very true!! Lol!
darkchild16
04-25-2005, 04:03 PM
me too i thinks geldings are easier to train then mares
Gustav
04-25-2005, 04:13 PM
I don't think Geldings are easier, I just think you just have to be more tactful with mares!!
darkchild16
04-25-2005, 04:18 PM
i think training bigger horses in what im doing is easier less worry abou tenergy and all tha t
I only have mares except old bey and he's not willing to learn anything new
darkchild16
04-25-2005, 04:50 PM
i have mares stallions and geldings and i ride a gelding in my shows
I've only ever owned four horses. They are a lot of work and you have to be quite dedicated to them. I've worked with lots of other horses but I think three is a good number. One to take out riding and two to keep the others company. :D
darkchild16
04-25-2005, 04:59 PM
i have over 20 right now
I don't know how you find the time to work with them all. For me, after I finish work/school I usually only find time and the inspiriation to work one and MAYBE lunge another one.
darkchild16
04-25-2005, 05:11 PM
wwe have 4 ppl working with them during the school year then i go up there on my breks
Gustav
04-25-2005, 05:12 PM
I've only ever owned four horses. They are a lot of work and you have to be quite dedicated to them. I've worked with lots of other horses but I think three is a good number. One to take out riding and two to keep the others company. :D
I have 3!! after all 3 is the magic number!! -do you remember the song? :D
darkchild16
04-25-2005, 05:13 PM
nope to young i geuss
Gustav
04-25-2005, 05:20 PM
Hey, I'm not THAT old!! Lol!! I'm only 24!! :D
darkchild16
04-25-2005, 05:28 PM
lol imm 16
This one? http://www.lyricsdownload.com/embrace-3-is-a-magic-number-lyrics.html I actually don't remember it. I think I'd have to hear it.
If I had four people working horses I'd have as many as I wanted Breeze. :D 'Course I'm quite picky about who handles my horses.
Gustav
04-25-2005, 06:18 PM
Not the one I was thinking of!!
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/de-la-soul/37781.html
I was thinking of the De La Soul vertion! :D
Not the one I was thinking of!!
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/de-la-soul/37781.html
I was thinking of the De La Soul vertion! :D
Still don't know it. :(
darkchild16
04-25-2005, 06:35 PM
i am to they are my best friends family the ppl whoown the farm
Saje I understand about who handles your horses. I had a few owners question me, mostly because of my apperance at 14, for some reason my lack of experience with horses was not at the top of their priorities. I did have better control and the respect of their horses than my own.
My mare was the biggest horse on the farm and I think she knew it.
darkchild16
04-26-2005, 01:36 PM
people sometimes wont buy myhorses since im so young because they think im unexperienced theni get my boy out and do the barrels and they take back anything they said plus i have all the records of my past horses and all of them are great racers and or pleasure horses and even one or two hunter jumpers that the ppl trained themseves so i know how you felt but its great to show them just how experienced you are.
heres a wuick story that was quite funny
well we had a buyer at the farm in the barn and one of our mares was going to give birth any day so we were really caustious about letting ppl come in but we walkerd in for a second and we relized our mare was in labor so of course this is someone who had aprihensions of buying a horse from us because of teh expreience thing so he had to stand there while she gave birth and it was only my friend and i helping her and like right after he bought the horse he came to look at for the seconf time. i thought that was great time on her part. just thought id share the story
Saje I understand about who handles your horses. I had a few owners question me, mostly because of my apperance at 14, for some reason my lack of experience with horses was not at the top of their priorities. I did have better control and the respect of their horses than my own.
My mare was the biggest horse on the farm and I think she knew it.
Yeah, it has nothing to do with age at all. I hate seeing horses with their head in the air and someone yanking on their mouth. It takes sooo long to get a soft mouth and then to get some cowboy on my horse ruin it - no thanks. :rolleyes: Most people I'll just lead them around on Pasetyna cuz she's pretty good.
What kind of mare did you have?
Waltzing Matilda was a Morgan, its what dad used to raise. She was hands bigger than his other mare and less than a hand bigger than the next biggest horse there, I think it was Kitten a thoughobred former race horse. Tilly was a stubborn horse hated being worked in any way shape or form.
She was a broad girl with alot of strength. She wasnt the best for riding enlish or western it just wasnt her thing. THe one thing she did well was pulling, her cart the lady who owned the farms car, or pulling fence posts. Im 6'2" her withers would be about or above the bridge of my nose.
Waltzing Matilda was a Morgan, its what dad used to raise. She was hands bigger than his other mare and less than a hand bigger than the next biggest horse there, I think it was Kitten a thoughobred former race horse. Tilly was a stubborn horse hated being worked in any way shape or form.
She was a broad girl with alot of strength. She wasnt the best for riding enlish or western it just wasnt her thing. THe one thing she did well was pulling, her cart the lady who owned the farms car, or pulling fence posts. Im 6'2" her withers would be about or above the bridge of my nose.
I adore Morgans and she sounds great. I boarded my horse at a stable that had arabs and morgans .... and then morabs :D Love them both.
darkchild16
04-27-2005, 08:32 AM
morgans are great just to big for me and not really barrel racers itd be nice to have one for trail riding tho
More than once my girl Tilly hitched a little under low branches on the trails, I wound up on my a$$ more than once, my gf at the time thought it was cute. Another time barebacking her before lunging her in the ring she put my knee into on of the fence post.
During the year I spent living with my dad in NC I had to pull and replace a couple of fence posts. Ordinarily I would use the tractor to pull the broken posts but i wouldnt start. I grabbed Tillys pulling gear and the tractors spare tire and headed to the fence. I hooked the strap to the broken post ran it over the tire and hooked up Tilly, a apple wedge or 2 later the post was out and we did it again. After all was said and done that night at dinner dad asked me if I got it all done I told him the tractor wouldnt start. He was half way into getting frothed up when I told him me and Tilly took care of it and it was all done.
Any time she was going to be worked she had to be tricked to get her into a halter or into a stall to be tacked for whatever she was going to do that day. While I was there one of my jobs was to get her into shape so she could be sold.
mrose_s
04-28-2005, 07:19 AM
when we move, we are thinking about a couple of friesans and maybe a haflinger, but ide rather somehting bigger that i can ride for a while