True Champagne Palomino Trail Horse!!

I'm selling a beautiful TRUE Champagne Palomino mare. She has Amber Yellow eyes and pink freckled skin in all the places that Champagne registries look at. 14.3h and 12 yrs old (1997). She was ridden in a covered arena and on the trails with her previous owner, and I currently ride her on the road and trails where I board her, as well as the pasture and anywhere really. Was told she's been on overnight camping trips with campfires, barking dogs, and all that good stuff before and knows how to picket, but I'm not sure that holds true anymore because she hasn't done anything like that in a few years. Barking dogs she has no problem with as the property she stays at has a dog that runs around her feet and she does nothing. She doesn't have shoes and gets a Barefoot mustang trim. Great with the farrier, vet, etc. Wonderful ground manners. Catches and leads easily. Bathes, clips, ties, stands for mounting and dismounting, even in the middle of trail rides and loads into the trailer without any problems, even a straight load. Easy keeper. She is UTD on worming and hooves will be done on 8/15. I don't give vaccinations, so she's only current on Coggins, and will need a new health cert for transportation purposes. She direct reins the best because that's how I like to ride. She currently rides in a Tom Thumb bit with a curb chain, although I'm told she was ridden in a curb bit, and a full cheek snaffle with her previous owners.

She's had a foal in the past and was a great mother, so she would also make a great broodmare for anyone who wanted to breed her and get Champagne coloration. I didn't own her during this period, but I do have pictures of the foal, both foal and older aged pictures. She's an unregistered Grade horse, but she could be registered in the Champagne registry. Been meaning to do this, but never got around to it. She does have speed to her and I think she's part Arabian because she holds her tail high and does have quite a personality to her. She could probably make a nice barrel horse prospect because she walks, trots, and lopes fast. I'm too afraid to lope or canter, so I don't do these speeds with her, but my trainer has. It's getting her to slow down that's the problem, but she gets worked with that a lot. This is NOT why I'm selling her though. I love that she goes faster than a lazy horse. When I bought her, she was learning leads at the time, at a canter, but wasn't finished. I didn't care much about cantering or lead changes, so she may or may not remember what she was taught on lead changes. She seems to pick stuff back up pretty quickly though.

I'm selling her because she is too much for me to handle anymore. I need a safer horse to ride that is safe all the time, not just some of the time. It's the hardest decision I've had to make.

Please take in mind before you read the below stuff that she was my first learning horse as a fresh beginner rider. I hadn't ridden in years when I started riding her, and I have been able to handle her and everything she has had to throw at me problem wise, so she's not a major problem case if that's what you're thinking. There are ONLY 2 problems that I can find wrong with her. She is perfect everywhere else, she just needs a more experienced rider who wants a nice horse, but that provides them with a satisfying goal, or challenge, or however you want to look at it. Some people want a horse that gives a challenge, and she will be one of them, even if it's a small challange. She has been my personal riding horse for the past 2 years and I haven't regretted, even once, my decision buying her. If I had the money to send her away to get trained and have her come back a guaranteed safe and willing horse, I would do it, but I can't for various reasons, so it'd be easier to just sell her and buy a horse already where I need them to be.

With that said, her problems.

She can get a little jumpy on the trail, less if she knows the road or area well, and she gets better with every ride, so I know it's mainly an experience issue. She's not hard to handle at all during these moments. You just have to be prepared for it and have good balance, which I don't really have being a beginner rider and out of shape, but yet I can stay on her back. She doesn't run off with you or bolt where you can't stop her...she'll just jump sideways or forward a few feet and stop to look. She's pretty much a jump before looking horse because she doesn't know any better. She is ONLY jumpy on the trails. Riding her in the pasture or arena, she has NEVER shown any signs that she was remotely interested in being jumpy about stuff. She'd make a good arena horse.

The biggest reason I've decided to sell her, is because of her on and off attitude. She has days where she is the most wonderful joy of a horse to ride, acting perfect, moving forward without so much as a thought, the most willing horse you've ever been on, and then other days she is a completely moody mare and doesn't want to do anything or go anywhere, being completely stubborn, and knowing how to intimidate and how to act in order to get her way of not having to work or ride anywhere. I have my trainer ride her for me because she knows how to handle her when she has these moments, so she hasn't gotten any worse. The problem is, is that she can't get any better because I can only afford to pay my trainer so much per week which only affords a small twice a week ride around the neighborhood just to keep her in riding shape, when what she really needs is someone constantly working with her and giving her an attitude adjustment.

During these moments of acting up she sometimes will attempt to reach around and bite your foot or leg, and she will sometimes "butt bounce" if you keep on kicking at her to get her to go forward, spurs or not. I don't know if this is her attempt at trying to buck, but I never want to find out, so I stop riding her and have my trainer get on her with the spurs to work her out of it, and she has never bucked even with her. She doesn't have any other bad habits, and has never offered to rear or kick. She has only ever done this "butt bounce" 5-6 times out of the 2 years that I have owned her, and only seems to act stubborn about 2-3 times a month, so it's NOT an all the time, every day thing.

At this point I feel that I need a safer more predictable horse that I can build my confidence on and not feel on edge and nervous the whole time I'm riding, just waiting for her to decide when she's had enough and then bite or try to buck me off. For this reason, I feel that she would be better suited to a home that has a more advanced rider on her back that doesn't get intimated at anything, and that can handle mild jumpiness WHEN it happens, which isn't often at all, and that can handle a horse when they want to be stubborn and act up and be able to correct attitude problems. I just don't like to always have my guard up and be prepared for her to jump, and especially when she acts up. I want to have a nice relaxed trail ride for once without worrying about what will happen to me and my safety. I'm more than prone to falling off because I am a beginner rider, so I simply just need a safer horse.

I am in no rush to sell her because she is my personal riding horse and I love her to death and will put up with her till the end if I have to. I want her to go to the right home and will wait as long as it takes to find it. If you have any questions, would like to see more or bigger pictures, or would like to come out and test ride her, please email me. Feel free to request a phone number or address of where she's located, but please do take into consideration that because I'm constantly on a time crunch, I would please ask that you do not request phone calls. Email is the best way to get a hold of me right now. Thank you.

Also, if you're at all interested in trading with me, I'm looking for a safe, experienced, willing trail gelding or mare (nothing with mood swings please), 15h or taller, registered or not (doesn't matter), wonderful ground and saddle manners, laid back and safe for beginner riders, then please let me know. I'm specifically looking for wildly marked 50/50 overo, or tovero, to white ratio, or any dilute...Buckskin (or Dun), Palomino, Cremello, Perlino, and especially Champagne Palomino (I can only hope).