Friendly, Solid Paint, Broke, Good With Children

We took a lot of photos of Joy to send to the young girl while she awaited the "big day".

Shortly before that day arrived, there was a death in the family which prevented them from taking the horse. We refunded all of the money paid and planned to keep Joy until she was old enough to train and ride.

Another family came to us that fall with a similar requirement. Joy seemed to be perfect. They bought her and had her for about a year. Joy was treated like a big dog. Their four year old boy was routinely lead around their farmstead on Joy's back without saddle or bridle. Joy was very well cared for, but had no formal training. Sadly, financial setbacks forced them to move back into town with no room for Joy. In March 2008 they asked us to take Joy back and sell her for them.

We first spent a good deal of time in ground work, lungeing and training her to respond to the bit and voice commands. Joy needed to learn to give us her attention in that she needed to respond promptly when asked to do something. This beautiful mare has become a very fine, predictable riding horse. She is not temperamental. As we ride her on our farm she crosses creeks without hesitation, helps bring the cattle home and becomes our comfortable companion when riding far out to check on our crops and hay fields. We have no trouble cueing this horse into her trot or her nice easy gallop but because she is so laid back her favorite gait is the walk.

Joy has become a very fine riding horse and I believe she would also be excellent at driving as well. Her other potentials are dressage and jumping. When she was a weanling I watched

as she gracefully jumped and cleared a two and a half foot fence to get to her mother. Often when cantoring across our pastures she will perfer to jump muddy places and trees instead of going around them. I own her older full sister Flair which at one time had for sale. After Flair gave birth to her first foal I decided to keep her. Flair has had three foals two of which turned out to be very flashy paints. You can view more photos/videos of Joy on our website.