Oh, @beowulf --where else can I write about my new boy except here! What I know so far --and I think I have all his owners correctly down: Carla Miller of KMC bought him from her friend when he was born April 11, 2014 and brought him home to her place in KY She was specifically looking for a Hancock line blue roan to cross with her mares (Two-eye Jack line). Initially Bob [She called him Bruno] was a blue roan. As he grew up, he became a bay roan. Carla did breed him as a 3 year old but said that about that time he became “a dick” and was aggressive toward her geldings with whom he was pastured. She gelded him and put him under saddle. She kept him another 2 years (51/2 all together) then sold him in 2019 to buy the Blue Roan Hancock stallion she wanted. From there he went to OH with Cynthia Masters who tried to make him a barrel horse but found him “slow and lazy” [my kind of horse!]. She kept him a couple of years, until 2022 then sold him, or traded him, to Nicole Nelson in KY who has or works at a sale barn where horses are taken, worked with, and sold --Nicole makes great videos and appears to sell all over the US. She has a great reputation for selling good, solid horses. In April of 2023, my friend bought him from Nicole and brought him to IN --she planned to keep him forever, but her health is failing with an uncertain future. She needed to reduce her herd of 4 quickly so her husband could care for them while she was in hospital. Bob was the only one that could be a quick sale --I saw, I bought (ok, massive PPE, and three trial rides in different circumstances over the course of a week, but I had an “Intent to Purchase” contract with a refundable deposit so she couldn’t sell Bob out from under me —glad I did as she had a telephone offer of 2K more than I was paying sight unseen) --but we kinda-sorta knew each other through 4-H and mutual horse friends. Would she have sold him out from under me? Business is business and maybe . . .but with two lawyers for kids, they made sure that didn’t happen. In effect, I had a 14 day hold on him once she took my deposit.
Just spent an hour with Bob in the barn --he’s not a fan of clippers --that’s his only fault I’ve found so far --and he sweats in the trailer. I think both will resolve as we get to know each other better.
Seriously. He looks awesome and so glad it worked out!
The calm lazy horse is my jam these days after a few wrecks on the hotter ones. I hope you two have many happy rides ahead!