Post by hugs on Jul 31, 2015 7:37:20 GMT
Nope on both.
Left the house at 9AM and got back at 1030PM. It's 230AM and waiting for Gerald to get back from OK so I may as well share this with everyone lol
So I thought I wanted to get a real confidence builder since we lost poor old Buster to Lymes a couple years ago. Penny, Ziggy and Peaches are all greenbroke and I'm tired of being so careful. Ace is an 18 yr old AQHA 14.2 been there/done that and has been ridden by another under confident mom and Axel (would have to change that name!) is a 25 yr old AQHA 15.2. Didn't know he was 15.2 until I got there, which was not a fun thing to discover. Turned out he's a real good horse for folks like me too.
Well, I rode Ace. I expected a good whoa, nope. I expected better turns. Now maybe I should have neck reined him and he didn't really know leg cues so that could have been my fault. But not a good whoa is a big NO! in my book. And he was sloggy moving away from the herd and his girl and pretty darn quick on the return. Penny was much better than that and she was a 6 yr old with only 30 days on her as a 3 yr old and not ridden much at all when I test rode her. Plus Ace had shoes one, said that they were because he was also driven but he needed fronts because he was ouchy on gravel. I'm not comfortable with shoes since we only get to see our farrier 3x a year if we're right on top of things. The owner said it wasn't a big deal, but why take a chance? Again, that poor whoa bothered me.
Axel was just too big. If I wanted a big horse to intimidate me I'd ride Penny lol His feel were duck-billed too, which kind of bothered me. The owner assured me he was a real babysitter but...
Another thing I was not all that surprised by but disappointed. Not all that great ground manners on either of them. Not as bad as another gelding I saw at a trainers, which was REAL bad, but not like my horses. But then I work on that every day, so it is to be expected. I'm pretty picky about manners as it is SUCH a slippery slope and you never know when it can mean the difference between being okay and an injury.
So I'm done looking. I think I'll go back to focusing on Peaches every day and build on all the hard work we've done over the years and these last 10 months. I have a round pen now so I think that will help limit what could go wrong... or at least make it easier to find the body... jk, but I don't see her going ape poop in the corral, she isn't a spooky horse.
Oh Gerald's Home!
Left the house at 9AM and got back at 1030PM. It's 230AM and waiting for Gerald to get back from OK so I may as well share this with everyone lol
So I thought I wanted to get a real confidence builder since we lost poor old Buster to Lymes a couple years ago. Penny, Ziggy and Peaches are all greenbroke and I'm tired of being so careful. Ace is an 18 yr old AQHA 14.2 been there/done that and has been ridden by another under confident mom and Axel (would have to change that name!) is a 25 yr old AQHA 15.2. Didn't know he was 15.2 until I got there, which was not a fun thing to discover. Turned out he's a real good horse for folks like me too.
Well, I rode Ace. I expected a good whoa, nope. I expected better turns. Now maybe I should have neck reined him and he didn't really know leg cues so that could have been my fault. But not a good whoa is a big NO! in my book. And he was sloggy moving away from the herd and his girl and pretty darn quick on the return. Penny was much better than that and she was a 6 yr old with only 30 days on her as a 3 yr old and not ridden much at all when I test rode her. Plus Ace had shoes one, said that they were because he was also driven but he needed fronts because he was ouchy on gravel. I'm not comfortable with shoes since we only get to see our farrier 3x a year if we're right on top of things. The owner said it wasn't a big deal, but why take a chance? Again, that poor whoa bothered me.
Axel was just too big. If I wanted a big horse to intimidate me I'd ride Penny lol His feel were duck-billed too, which kind of bothered me. The owner assured me he was a real babysitter but...
Another thing I was not all that surprised by but disappointed. Not all that great ground manners on either of them. Not as bad as another gelding I saw at a trainers, which was REAL bad, but not like my horses. But then I work on that every day, so it is to be expected. I'm pretty picky about manners as it is SUCH a slippery slope and you never know when it can mean the difference between being okay and an injury.
So I'm done looking. I think I'll go back to focusing on Peaches every day and build on all the hard work we've done over the years and these last 10 months. I have a round pen now so I think that will help limit what could go wrong... or at least make it easier to find the body... jk, but I don't see her going ape poop in the corral, she isn't a spooky horse.
Oh Gerald's Home!
