So, I have the opportunity to buy my heart horse’s full sibling. I wasn’t really going to look for a horse until I got back to the states, but she is going to be on the market after a tune-up. I lost my heart horse to esophageal cancer, though the parents are both still alive and in their late 20’s, so the line doesn’t seem to have cancer problems.
It’s a mare, not a gelding like the heart horse was, but she was bred and raised in the same place, with the same family. I’ve kept in touch with them since I bought the first horse from them and they have never been anything but completely honest with me. They put an amazing foundation on their horses, take them everywhere and expose them to tons of stuff. They say she is a clone of her brother, with the same amazing mind the stud gifts all his babies with. She is 7, She hasn’t been ridden a ton because they are usually busy with clients horses, so still a little green. (Wiggly green I can handle easy, bucky bolty green I don’t want a part of. Her brother was always level headed, even when he was so green that straight lines were non-existent.)
I can afford her, and I can afford to keep her in full training with them until I get to the states, and I can afford to ship her from where she is to where I will be. I might have a bit of a time with the husband, I promised him I wouldn’t buy another horse sight unseen after the last one left me with broken bones. But I got the heart horse sight unseen from these folks, and he was everything they said he was and so very much more.
I do worry that I wouldn’t be able to see her for her, that I might compare the two too much.
Help me COTH, you’re my only hope!!!