whoa…
[QUOTE=msrobin;3796079]
They have another for sale that is skinny too!
http://www.horseville.com/php/view.php?id=188148[/QUOTE]
He looks aweful!!
Well I know - I said “for a minute!” LOL! Geesh! 
I wouldn’t expect it to be Eros, knowing Anne, but it was one of those “made me look closer” kind of deals.
I am also in PA and can go look at him or help somehow.
[QUOTE=War Admiral;3793031]
God, y’all, I just looked at his pic again and wanted to cry. 
I really HOPE one of y’all can take him in. I’ve already got the one rescue I can afford, and he’s going to be arriving in bad shape, so I cannot do two. 
Just a thought as to I.D… You know that famous team of show jumping brothers who donated a LOT of horses to a certain much-discussed NON-501©(3) over the years… Could this be one of theirs???[/QUOTE]
Went to visit the website of COTH’s favorite non 501 ©(3) “rescue”, and apparently there is another famous family of showjumpers that has recently sent them a horse with a big history. :no:
What rescue is that?
I’ll pm… do not want to derail this guys rescue
Hauling
[QUOTE=Addison;3795749]
Tazer: I live in PA and can ship him for you if you can give him a home. Please let me know.[/QUOTE]
That is a kind and very generous offer, one which I may take you up on. I am not familiar with the area he’s in, and the weather and roads are a concern. I sent you a PM.
The sellers are trying to rush this, I told them I can come out on the 24th, and that is not soon enough for them.
WOW!! :eek: Eros is in Southern Pines?! That’s about 2 hours (if that) from me! Boy, would I like to see him! He was one of my favs!
wow that is unbelievable, Olympic horse or not. Have you checked out there other horses? They all look horrible! I don’t know why someone would want to put those pictures up on an add. Don’t know if this will work, but look at theses poor guys manes!
Tazer-I sent you an email.
[QUOTE=Pokey;3791154]
Yes, it does happen.
When I was 16, I rode a horse that had gone 'round the Seoul Olympics. He was on the showjumping team for another country, and got around with 16 faults.
I rode him, at Wellington, in the schooling jumpers, when he was 16 or 17 years old. I remember walking through the schooling area, with people shaking their heads and saying in a stage whisper - “that horse doesn’t deserve that”.
I was stupid, and had my head in the sand, so I just didn’t get it.
Us amateur soft hearted folk just don’t understand it. I know I don’t.[/QUOTE]
I don’t get this post. What about being ridden in the schooling jumpers at Wellington did the horse not deserve? If he was being well maintained, and well ridden, how is that detrimental to the horse? Regardless of whether or not he jumped around in the Olympics. There are a lot of horses that were GP jumpers and more that now earn their keep in the lower jumpers or the medals. As long as they are treated right and are happy, why not keep them working?
One horse that comes to mind is The General. He is upwards of 20 now, and did the GP jumpers with Michael Matz (possibly the Olympics too, I am not 100%). Anyway, after a successful career in that, he is now doing the Big Eq, qualifying and being very competitive. He is happy and healthy and looks to LOVE his job. No one grumbles about him, I’m sure! If all horses could look so terrific!
I can’t think of many people who would grumble “that horse doesn’t deserve that” unless there was some blatant wrong doing going on, like poor riding, unsoundess or mistreatment.
Oh hey Addison, good on you:D You’re awesome!
Hope this guy gets a good home!
[QUOTE=IsolaBella09;3789866]
There is no way a retired Olympic jumper would be for sale for $500.[/QUOTE]
nah that’s not true. a couple months ago i bought a former GP jumper who ribboned at the devon GP for not much more than that. just gotta be in the right place at the right time.
[QUOTE=WichitaWaltz;3796478]
WOW!! :eek: Eros is in Southern Pines?! That’s about 2 hours (if that) from me! Boy, would I like to see him! He was one of my favs![/QUOTE]
IIRC, he’s spending the winter there while Market Street is in Florida. He looks fantastic, and he’s as clever as hell. :winkgrin:
He has a very distinctive blaze / star.
I don’t recall any Aussie Olympic chestnut horses with a face like that.
However, back pre late 90’s, the Australian Olympics Committie, made people pay to get their horses over seas themselves, and would only contribute some money to get the horse home if they won. It is highly possible this horse was sold on, and then slipped through the cracks.
A lot of people had to heartbreakingly sell their beloved horses, as they couldn’t get them back home.
He does look like one of our aussie TB’s.
Horses do fall through the cracks.
My mother rescued an old eventer, aged around 19 -20 turns out he was in the 2000 Sydney Paralymics, and had won bronze in the dressage.
I rode him twice, and he was pulling off the most stunning extensions, half passes and other high level movements. I will never forget the feeling of sitting on this sorry looking old horse, and him lighting up when we entered the arena. You could see what he once was.
We also purchased a horse from the other side of the country, sight unseen, of the funniest sale video I have ever seen, featuring the rider and owner, a from a one armed guy, as a trail riding horse.
We got him off the truck and he was fiery and onery.
He was too big in the barrel for my mum, so I got on him and worked him around and around. He was rusty on contact and collection, but he knew some things. He would perk up when he saw a jump, so I popped him over a few, I’ll be darned if that horse didn’t collect him self up and jump as if that 2 foot cross rail wasn’t a 4’6 foot.
I ended up jumping him up the heights that day, to a smidgeon under 5 foot before I got too chicken to let him go any higher.
I had never jumped over 3’6 before, and was a pretty nervious jumper. I just gave him the reins, let him pick the spots and he would collect himself up, judge the distance, jump, land and he would be looking for the next fence.
I put up adds all over, in magazines for a year before I got a hit. Turns out old onery Tucker had been a 3 *** eventer, and had been jumping A grade around Australia with a girl in her 20’s, and she got married and he had to be sold, and because he could be a pain in the ass sometimes, kept going down the levels until he was brought from a trail riding school by a one armed guy who rode him in a western saddle.
Good horses can fall through the cracks, but it could also as someone else suggested, a high level jumper, not olympic horse.
I don’t think that’s the same horse.
As an australian TB, he wouldn’t have a tattoo, but he would have shoulder brands. I did write about that, and they said his winter hair is too thick to get a good read on them.
I didn’t read through the entire thread, but I know of Nancy and Jo because I volunteered with a dog/cat rescue they worked with when living in NJ. They are very good-hearted, but new to horses. They just moved to their PA farm last year. They probably are just repeating whatever the horse’s former owner told them. I doubt this horse ever got any closer to the Olympics than a TV set on in the barn, but they are now doing horse rescue and learning the ropes.
[QUOTE=Alterrain;3797252]
I don’t think that’s the same horse.[/QUOTE]
I’m preeeeeeetty sure it is:)
several people have said things like this but I don’t think it specifically said he was on the Australian Olympic team just that he was an Olympic horse and an Australian TB. Just thought I’d throw that out there. We could have a dutch warmblood on our team but we are not from the Netherlands…
Dredging up memories here but I think a person I used to know bought him. Had him a couple of years then was put down or euthanized. It was in Horse Sport.
