Thanks everyone for the kind words. We’re pretty darn pleased. Goldmaker came to us in January and we agreed we would try and get his career somewhat back on track. It’s been a bit of a rocky road as it was while Jos and I were working on legging him up and another horse, that I broke my back <rolling eyes>. Jos was riding Goldmaker and said the horse FLEW on his ride back to the farm to get the truck. Guess that’s one HUGE advantage of riding a Thoroughbred, eh? <LOL>. Can we say sideline training and conditioning him for a bit??? But, for the last 6 weeks, even in this abominable heat, Jos has been getting up every morning bright an early to ride him. We are really, really pleased with how well he has progressed.
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So is he a hunter or a jumper?
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He definitely has talent over fences and LOVES doing the cross country stuff - no surprise there, eh? <smile>. He has a lovely canter and did receive 7’s on all of his gaits. He hasn’t had any dressage schooling at all, really, and I don’t look at him and think dressage. I “do” think he’d do well in the hunter ring and so far, he’s certainly showing some very good jumping talent. Time will tell ;).
Here’s a couple photos from the inspection :)!
