Horses for Sale!

Just kidding. Here's my addition to That Red Mare's Blog Hop. Offered for your consideration:

"Foxie"

The Evolution of Really Bad Pastern Angles

Tara Shani, known in the barn as "Foxie" is a 20 year old OTTB. Despite two career ending injuries, Foxie is sound enough for flatwork, dressage and trail riding, but prefers to be left alone unless she's allowed to gallop around carte blanche. Don't let her age fool you; Foxie still prescribes to the Thoroughbred concept of exponential acceleration and continually inspires raised eyebrows when her age is revealed. She is a somewhat hard keeper, but does well on high calorie-per-pound feeds with a high fat content. She also requires daily Previcox to keep her comfortable, as while she has a magnificent number of natural conformational issues, the dropped left hind fetlock and resulting straightened hock angle are the result of an injured suspensory ligament and do cause her discomfort. 

Only happy when running or jumping

Foxie is appropriate for a very brave advanced beginner, as she is not for the faint of heart. Along with her injured hind suspensory, Foxie is also notoriously cold backed and prefers to canter away from the mounting block (if she deigns to stand at all) while pretending to know how to buck. Foxie goes best in a pelham; she is very forward and opinionated, as well as intensely adverse to giving to contact and is capable of ignoring an impressive amount of bit related discomfort while running off with you. She will go into the bridle if the rider follows the strange and illogical routine she has trained her current owner into dealing with, and once collected, will begrudgingly leg yield, shoulder fore and perform "animated" flying lead changes.  She enjoys trail riding, but must lead because Thoroughbreds win all races. An ideal home would be a galloping crazy young, light weight person who is willing to invest in 1.50$ worth of pain meds each day and many, many peppermints. She would prefer if this person also allowed her to wallow in the mud like a swamp creature.

"Bailey"

WRF Come Along Pond, aka "Bailey" is a 16.1h+ TBxWB. She is eligible to be registered as an American Warmblood. Bailey is a flashy, fancy moving mare with athletic conformation. She has great hooves (currently barefoot) and a lovely mane and tail. Bailey has endless athletic potential, and with a brain replacement could make any rider a wonderful upper or even international level prospect. 

Bailey is friendly like a Labrador, and is similarly unaware of her imposing size most of the time. She has lovely paces and great jumping form with even knees, but would need to be heavily drugged to be appropriate as a Hunter. While she passages as a nervous habit, Bailey also would probably not make a great dressage horse, as she generally gets bored of or resents actually having to do something hard. Bailey is quite spooky and can be difficult to control from the saddle or on the ground, and generally forgets there is a human involved in the situation at all while throwing herself around in terror.

But she could be a model, so it's okay.

Bailey has a ton of personality, and is very brave as long as she is fully convinced she is being super badass. She loves to be praised and enjoys showing off for a crowd. She does not enjoy and will spook at: decorated fences (especially XC), children, ponies, children on ponies, sudden movements, anything she didn't notice before, corn/most crops, the wind, any noise she cannot easily see and therefore identify and generally... herself. 

Bailey stands resentfully for the farrier, vet and bathing, but enjoys being groomed, hugged, fussed over and fed treats. She will try anything once, food wise, and is a pretty easy keeper who licks her feed bin clean each day. She loads well enough in a trailer if you have a lunge whip and a lunge line run through the window. While Bailey has some history of bad behavior (biting, bucking, rearing, bolting - no kicking!) she is a good willed horse who generally lashes out out of irrational fear of something stupid, so let that give you solace. Her only true vice is stallwalking.