I have given up on ever being healthy enough to keep my tricky mare going consistently, and she is NOT doing well sitting until my schedule changes (getting hard to catch). My focus is to only having horses that I can use in lessons/anyone here can ride.
On the plus - Mare has buttons, and is pretty tolerant about letting people fumble about finding them. She is also great about contact. Easy to sit gaits. Not a fancy mover, but can do all the lateral work (her canter pirouettes aren’t even, but she gives you the feel/idea.) She is an oddly cool horse to train once you are on her back.
On the down side - On the other hand she is very tricky on the ground. Well trained, but very anxious/fearful about humans. This makes showing her, vetting her, letting just anybody work with her, super tricky. She is also oddly reactive to very specific things - white buildings for example (she loads into our white trailer fine…but really fearful to walk beside it!). Some of this has improved, but either I am not good enough to resolve, or it isn’t resolvable. I have done enough vet work. I do not have more ideas.
She is not fancy enough to be a pro-horse. Just an easy on the body horse that suited me well for a bit, and I learned a TONNE from her.
How would you price/advertise a horse like this? honestly would take pretty much anything for the right home, but how do you advertise that safely? I am hoping someone localish buys her so they can do a trial. Ideas?
