Good things just keep on happening!
Remember how a couple weeks ago Sugar wouldn’t load for me? Or, if you don’t, the short story is Molly and Casey are away on pasture at a friend’s place because my neighbor had a fit that we have horses, even though I’ve lived here 18 months. This of course prompted the house search and led to us buying the house we’re moving to Thanksgiving weekend.
So, anyways, Ms. Sugar Britches wouldn’t load. She had A FIT. She broke a halter, hit her head and created drama all around. Well, she doesn’t have a single issue loading into a stock trailer. Said stock trailer is parked in the pasture and she eats in there just fine, even going so far as to stomp her feet at me and look expectantly, as though she’s ready to go.
My landlord will bring her out to our new place for us. However, he had a price. But, so did everyone else I talked to about moving Sug. The price was that we’d buy his TB mare for $500 and he’d move Sugar for free. Bad Pants accepted the deal immediately. Know what? Moving Sugar was going to cost us $400 anyways. So, BP just bought me ANOTHER MARE for $100.
Wanna know who she is? Look here. She actually has 6 decent wins to her name. Not sure why they didn’t campaign her harder as she did beat out a couple Derby winners for the years she raced. Well, it doesn’t matter much anyways. We’re quite happy with her.
I don’t have any pics with moving upon us. She was being retrained Western at the time. Since this video was taken a few years ago, Flirt (her barn name) has been used as a trail horse, a company horse, a husband horse, and a kids horse. She also jumps and has been shown huntseat.
I can barely say it. I own FIVE horses now. FIVE. And 4 of them are mares (and a filly)! From a self-professed gelding person, I certainly gained a lot of mares in a big hurry!
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Hooray! Also, you’re collecting horses as fast as Robyn (Bitchypoo) collects cats!!!
Oh? Does she need some more cats? I have a lovely, sweet gray dude who lives on my porch… Actually, I have 7 cats currently. I feel like the crazy cat lady with them all in the house due to the move.
Yay!! I like her, and I LOVE her name! So is hubby going to take up riding?
No, not really. He’s going to continue to open his wallet and watch the funds dwindle. He’ll ride if I ask him too, but it won’t ever be his thing. He’s savvy enough to help with them, to hold, to medicate, will clean stalls, etc. But he doesn’t have the grand passion for riding that we have.
oh, and PS – I’ve always considered myself a mare person, and now I have nothing but geldings.
I truly like balance. And now I’m out-numbered. So, I’d like to think either the Universe has a good sense of humor or has decided to right things and return the sexes at my residence to equal numbers each.
You know what? I love mares; they get a bad rep because, well, they’re mares, but I like that they have a personality. Geldings are the same, day in and day out.
Not true! I’ve worked at show barns from stock horses to Saddlebreds. Geldings have personality too. Or, at least several I know do. Casey isn’t the same day in and day out either.
My truest horse loves have always been boys. Stallions and geldings alike.
good luck with the move over thanksgiving … i hope everything goes well for you and your menagerie!
Thanks! I’m sure it will go fine. I’ve been working with Sugar, and I know she’ll load in a certain type of trailer, as long as I don’t tie her and I give her grain. In fact, she’ll look at me expectantly and stomp her hoof as though she’s saying, “Well, let’s go!”
Wow! you better get to building that shed 😀 heehee
I was also worried about Sugar loading but it sounds like you have it figured out. Is Thanksgiving moving week??
The run-in is already paid for. It will be built this week. The builder didn’t even bat an eye when we requested one. I just have to decide on a size and let him know by Saturday.
I worried about Sugar too, but she’ll be fine. I sort of suspected that she didn’t know what to do with a slant load. Am really relieved to know that she doesn’t straight tie too. I’m hoping she cross-ties, because I’ll be putting up a grooming/bathing station this spring.
Yes, Thanksgiving is moving week! We load Wednesday, and unload Thurs, with a trip North to BP’s boss’s house for dinner. It will be a FULL day!
I see that Miss Sugar clearly has a trailer preference! At least she will load!
I don’t think she knows how to deal with a slant load at all. And clearly she does NOT straight tie.
Miss Flirt is a nice looking girl. Isn’t it funny how our animals balance out? I’ve always dreamed of owning geldings/stallions but far preferred riding mares.
Haven’t really met a mare I didn’t like, but have had all sorts of issues with the geldings I’ve ridden. Funny isn’t it?
I think you’d love Casey if you’d had a chance to ride him.
Oh, wow. Very cool! Flirt is lovely!
You have that many horses now..whoa girl!
Nice, smart looking mare..she’ll like your riding smarts wayy better than his!
She is the same age as my TB mare and they have a neat Brittish Tb in thier pedigree together~ NASHRULLAH on the sire’s side. His great, great grandfather’s sire on the Dam’s~ CHAUCER.
WOW…all I can say is that!
KK
Ohhh, I’ve only looked at the video now – Flirt looks BEAUTIFUL! And very responsive. Is she comfortable to ride?
I haven’t rode her yet. It will be some time before I do. With moving, I didn’t get a chance to try her out first. And, my husband kinda jumped the gun and just bought her, sight unseen. It made sense though, in some ways as by purchasing her, we secured shipping for Sugar at the same time and without additional cost. However, they just arrived on Friday. And I am not happy. I have paid for the man we bought Flirt from (my former Landlord whom many refer to as “jackwagon”) to board both Sugar and Flirt. Feeding was apparently not part of the deal. Sug and Flirt are both about 100# underweight. Flirt may be more than that even. I knew she was thin when I saw her about 3 weeks ago. But this is beyond ridiculous! And here he was, on my driveway, swearing up and down that he was feeding Flirt! I so don’t want to pay his final bill! I know what a fed horse looks like and she isn’t it!