Additional Comments:
Santana is an absolutely gorgous animal. He has a very long mane and flowing tail. He is an unregistered QH. He is VERY smooth in all his movements. He is a nice mover with an exaggerated rocking horse canter. He has been ridden on trails. He is extremely athletic and boy can he turn. He is very sensitive and responsive to his cues, so be ready. When you say turn...he turns. He stands for the farrier, he clips, and loads. I can ride him bareback with a halter and a lead rope. Santana is a very gentle and mild mannered fella on the ground. Santana is ready for a new home with lots of love and attention. He loves to be groomed and petted. Santana seems to be a natural at speed games. He is a very easy to handle on the ground, a steady trail mount, and can turn it up at the fun shows, and with his chestnut color and flaxen mane and tail you will get noticed. Santana had a surgury for left Laryngeal paralysis about 4 years ago. He had a surgury at Cokesbury Veterinary Clinic in Delaware. The vet tacked back the left side of his laynyx (aka: voicebox). This occourance is also called "Roaers" beacuse the sound "horse" and they can't control sound well. Santana makes a noise when he is being worked, but he is fine. Our vet said that unless he was going to run all three legs of the triple crown or crosscountry steeple chase then he would be fine. He has been trail ridden done gaming patterns. Prior to his surgury I noticed that when I was ridding him he made noises, that is what made me call the vet. Santana is hypp negative. This is not the reason that we are selling him. His owner is very busy and is a beginner rider. Santana is a very athletic horse and his owner is currently looking for a beginner horse. I rode Santana all last fall and never had any issues with him. I was ready to sell him as a child safe gaming horse. Since that time I have had a few experiences with him that has made me change him to a horse that needs an experienced rider. He has never bucked or reared, but when he gets nervous, he needs a rider who is very confident to get him to do what they want him to do. He started doing these things when he the paralysis occured, in an attempt to let us know something was wrong. He could go for 15 rides and there not be one problem, but then on some random day, he goes through the motions again. He has been evaluated by the vet to not have anymore problems. I'm only sharing this information in the hopes of finding Santana the right home. I rode him to a gameshow this weekend and he won a blue ribbon, so he is a capable anilmal, he just has some weak moments. When this horse is on, he is awsome, but because of this inconsistancy i seem to have stumbled across I'm dreastically reducing his price in the hope of finding him a good home.
Shipping Notes:
Company / Facility: Sixty Foot Farm - I train and sell the horses that we breed and raise. I occassionally train outside horses if I have the time available. We have a 16 stall barn and barns or turnout sheds in our 6 pastures. We sell hay. We board when we have extra space, but we are at full right now with 27 of our own horses. We are surrounded by state owned land and have miles of trails that can be accessed from our farm. We have a Large Standard spotted gaited jack (Donkey) that will be available for breeding in the Spring of 2010 or Summer of 2009 if he figures it out. The interest is there, but the maturity level is ot. "Mockingbirds Southern Comfort is 2 year old black and white spotted jack from Paris, Tennessee. At present, SoCo is 51' inches and still growing. Mammoth jacks are 56 inches and above and jennets are 54' and above. His sire is 53' and his dam is 55'. At present SoCo is a large satndard, but will continue to grow in height until he is 5. We will be shipping cooled semen hopefully for the 2010 breeding season.
