- Skills / Disciplines
- Dappled, Endurance, Flashy, Project, Trail, Trail Riding, Youth
Additional Comments
Cute 15h Grade TN Walker - No papers but I have his stuff the previous owner mailed me (received yesterday) it appears (maybe) you could register him. (i don't know how that works).
12yo great on the trail. He is shedding out still so the picture is not showing the palomino and dapples well. I bought this horse from a person who purchased it for her teenage grand daughter to ride. They just poked around in the paddock and had been ridding him in a snaffle bit.... (read more) (cringe if you ride gaited horses)
He has a fresh 6 weeks and about 200 miles of trail ridding on him. He is very happy on the trail, rides out alone, fine with farm equipment. Stands ground tied for 15-20 min. Good with feet, just had sheath and teeth done, current cogins. No buck, will spooks n place, has been good with farm traffic. Have a folder of papers on shots etc. Has a DNA test if you wish to send in for registration papers.
His gait is about a 7 and will come up to a 9 with another 3-4 weeks of slow ridding. He has a nice smooth quarter horse speed gait right now, additional work on collection should get you a second faster gait. He has a nice canter but needs some push to understand it is ok to canter if that is what you wish to teach him to do. I don't think anyone ever let him canter under saddle before he has a rocking chair canter if you wish to let him do it, no buck and makes him really happy but not hot.
He does not pace, he just forgot how to use the collection muscles as he was ridden in a snaffle. I have him in a Myler walking horse ring bit which he loves.
He has big kind eyes and a gentle disposition. When he is concerned he looks for his people to help. He is in your pocket and easy to catch, loves work.
Usually I would keep this horse and put another 30 to 60 day on him which then gets him to a 6-7k price, but I just purchased a gaited mule which need a lot of time and work as she has not been ridden at all in 3+ years and a gaited mule 17H is something I have always wanted for myself.
While he is for sale we will still be ridding and training and the price will adjust up.
So if you want a good solid horse with color, cute and a palomino is you guy. I will spend 3-4 hours with you if you wish and go over his training to date and show you what I think he needs in the next 6 weeks to finish him to a gold star status. I am listing him as a 3 as I would not today put a kid on him or a guest to ride but he is plenty safe, he just needs a little more education. And he is small for me I have to lift my heals up to connect with his belly as my inseam is 35", my legs are too long for this horse.
I have a lighter cream horse slightly larger, heavier that has 90+ days on him and 95% finished for 7k also for sale.
See add for Sid.
I re-train gaited horses, help owners, and re-home horses who are miss matched with their owners ridding abilities. We train gaited horses to think slow, confidently and ask the ridder for what they want. You want a horse to think to you, and about you, as their leader, the brain bone is the most important part of a horse. Most of the horses I work with just are not fully trained, they still think like they are alone, and that is what gets you in trouble out on the trail.... (read more) I like to ride and train horses that don't make me look like a good ridder, just good solid trail horses.
I grew up in Montana where we had 3000 acres ran cattle and always had a couple dozen of the cheapest Montana auction horses on hand. In my younger years I would ride any horse you could tie to a post long enough to get on as I though that made me a good ridder. Active in mounted search and rescue, cattle drives, and working ranch horses. I have also participated in mounted police horse training and providing therapy horses over the years. If you see a white hair woman out horse camping with three horses and still ridding in the rain that might be me.
I also enjoy my own small heard of my own 6-8 horses including Fred at 36 who still loves to go out for trail rides, and maybe a gaited mule in the oven for spring foal.
My real job supports my horse passion.
