I spoke with a wonderful lady who has a horse for sale that I am interested in. The majority of her experience with him has been as a foxhunter. She says he is quiet, stands at checkpoints, is not lazy (goes first flight), but if she wants to hilltop she can check him easily and he will stay with the hilltoppers. He doesn’t spook or do anything silly, but he can pull a bit in a plain snaffle (so she upped the ante on him). Hunts without preparation or “medicinals”, comes right off the trailer and jumps a coop without blinking an eye.
He sounds like an absolutely fabulous horse to hunt on, but I have no experience with hunting beyond longing to do so and living quite far from any hunts. What does quiet as a hunter really mean?
I ask that question because quiet to a show hunter and quiet to an eventer are two totally different things, so I don’t really understand how quiet to a foxhunter works
Hope it’s not an entirely silly question!