Riderless horse near Fair Hill, MD- Free Lease or FTGH
Posting for a friend. Amazing opportunity for someone looking for a dressage, cross country, fox hunter, paperchase, or fun trail horse. Please read the whole description written by his owner below:
15.3+hh buckskin Irish Sport Horse/Connemara gelding. He was found and brought to me by my Olympic eventing coach Jane Sleeper. Jane was so impressed with the, at the time, 3 year that she insisted this be my first professional horse. He is a '95 foal which makes him 18 this year. I have had him since he was 3 years old so anything you could possibly want to know about him- I’m the one you want to ask.
He was my event horse for many years and as eventers we practice the skills of dressage, show jumping and XC. He was a successful horse all through pony club and into the upper levels of eventing, was schooled up to the Advanced level. We even did some local dressage shows to help improve his lateral work. He was never quite fancy enough in the dressage to win at the upper levels but he always placed very well overall because he was strong, never ever stopped, bold jumper. He has trained with many of the greats and has always been used as an example horse for show jumping and xc. Now with that being said, he was aggressive enough to tackle huge fences and kind and patient enough to let me inexperienced mother ride him 2x a week. My mom trail rode and took lessons on him for fun. He’s a cool dude.
Unfortunately, he is slightly “off” in his step in his left hind. He isn’t lame behind he is ‘off’, meaning when he trots he slightly drags his toe and wings his left hind inward rather than tracking up and forward. This has no affect on the comfort of his step or ride. You can’t even feel it. This stems from an old injury, in Sept. '08 he was in a field fight with a horse who was accidentally turned out in his pasture. He has never been the same in his left hind since. We had several vets look at him and did all the appropriate things to try to get him sound with the exception of a bone scan. As it stands today I took him to a specialist to try to figure out where his “offness” is coming from. We blocked the entire leg to the stifle and X-rays. Nothing was visible to point to the “offness.” So we have been advised to take him for a bone scan. The vet did tell us that he is in NO pain and is in amazing health. The vet encourages that he continue to be ridden as long as he likes his job, and he likes to work!
In the perfect situation I would like to find my horse a forever home that wanted to ride a few times a week, maybe do trails, dressage and fences under 3’. He is bold and a little quick to his fences as he is an event horse still in his mind. He needs to be refreshed on his dressage work since he was off for the last year while I started my next upper level horse. He is an easy keeper. Only needs the farrier every 8 weeks, perfect gentleman for vet an dentist. X-ties clips and self loads on the trailer. There are only three things he does not do- he can not handle blue plastic lol… No idea why!! He needs to see and be close to other horses when he is in the barn/stall and he does not like the noise of machinery being close to him. Wierd, I know haha.
Right now he is being worked 4x a week to just refresh him and he is loving it. He is happy and just wants a job and attention. He has excellent ground manners and is easy to handle. He is easily placed in any field situation and gets along with everyone.
Pictures available! Owner finances force placement, boarding funds are limited so he needs to find a home soon!
I was started western pleasure / EQ, but after 6 months I turned to English to pursue a lower level jumping career, pleasure and EQ and later hoped to do eventing, and for the past 2 summers I got an amazing chance to show/tune up/exercise some contesting horses in Kentucky. The past two summers I’ve been attending a 4H camp in Kentucky as well.
