This message is from: "plumg...@pon.net" <plumg...@pon.net>
HI all, I will try to be brief, but it is a long sad story. A friend of a close friend who runs a boarding barn across the street from our home (and who takes care of our horses when we are away) bought a well bred, well trained sorrel, with blaze QH QH mare. Her breeding is Big League Player (sire) and out of a Sonny Dee Bar Mare (I think it is Trows Sonny Gold,l but am doing this without looking at her pedigree.) The horse's owner bought her out of what I am told is a reputable barn in Georga for a very big price and had her shipped across the country. While she was being shipped, there was a terrible ice storm. The shipper stopped and offloaded her for two weeks in Texas...possibly in a place where there was ice. After she arrived her new owner rode her and she began bucking like crazy. The new owner is an experienced and good rider and she managed to get off safely during a lull in the bucking. This horse was showed in the east by a 9 year old rider, and won. She was trained for western ploeasure and had some reining training. On some occasions she has been ridden OK and she clearly shows her training. To my eyes, she is clearly a very finely bred QH, and is gorgeous to watch move. The new owner tried various things with her, but she bucked. So my friend recommended she go to a small training barn/cattle ranch to be ridden out in the hills. By this time I think she had had some body work and they figured she needed to be ridden in the steep hills where bucking is basically impossible...the horse just keeps going forward. Unbeknownst to my friend the trainer at this barn was separated from his wife and the person training the horse was his wife. Sometime later they got a call to pick her up. It is not clear what happened, but we think she had her nose tied to her tail, panicked and went down. She ended up with a stifle injury, and a small piece of the tip of her tail cut off. A year later I think her stifle may be OK, but she still bucks. The husband who was separated from his wife was persuaded to take her (at no charge...free lease) , with the idea of breeding her to a very fine QH stallion that would fit well with her. The husband was also going to pay for body work for her and try to get her in shape to be ridden and sold. This week the husband called and said he had a report from the chiropractor to say that she needed $3000 worth of work, and the whole thing was just too much for him. My friend will get the chiropractor's report. In the meantime, the owner's husband had to retire early due to illness and she also lost access to a free boarding site (she still had to provide food and care). She has no money to take care of this horse. In fact, she really has no money to even pay to put her down...which has been one of the options considered. My friend has no room at her boarding barn, and I have no room...and a husband who is not happy with the number of horses we have already. This mare is a sort of liver sorrel, with long, long mane and tail and a blaze. When she holds her tail a certain way, you can see that she is missing the hair that should be on the tip of her tail, so the effect of her long tail is somewhat spoiled, though she could certainly wear a fall of some kind, I suppose. On the ground she is quite sweet, though certainly not the really calm Fjord temperament. We have not started calling rescues yet, but the N California rescues are sufficiently overflowing that they are running subsidized euthanasia clinics. If anyone knows of a good option for her, please let me know privately. She is currently 9 years old. She has never been bred. Right now she is still with the trainer, but that will have to change fairly soon. Gail ------- Original Message ------- >From : Steve Sessoms[mailto:ssess...@charter.net] Sent : 5/3/2009 6:14:34 AM To : fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com Cc : Subject : RE: Fjord at clinic photos This message is from: "Steve Sessoms" <ssess...@charter.net> Who is the lovely Fjordie in the Carol Walker photos from the Piaffe and Passage with Manuel Trigo in Franktown CO in 2008? Is it Obie? Hope the link works. http://www.livingimagescjw.com/CLIENTS/08PiaffePassage/08PiaffePassage-1.htm Meredith Sessoms Moulton AL Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
