Posted by bc on October 26, 2009 at 08:43:35 from (69.148.145.104):
In Reply to: Re: O/T: Cheap horses posted by TimMiller on October 25, 2009 at 10:33:48:
Hope you are a horseman or prepared to spend the time to become one. Can you make an extended ride at a trot, canter, and gallop and stay in the saddle?
There are varying degrees of broke horses and they don't stay broke. An experienced rider's broke horse is not the same as a kid broke horse. I bought a paint mare that was claimed to have been ridden in the local parade by the kids. Gave off nice colts but not a horse that wanted to be ridden very well. Ended up at the sale barn with it.
You gotta make a horse respect you which means you have to know horses well and be able to ride well when they test you to see who is the dominant one. They need regular riding to stay broke.
Be prepared to spend a grand a year for shots, meds, wormers, feed, hoof trimming, etc. per healthy horse plus all the tack and then you will want a trailer. Then the horse training seminars and dvds or hiring a trainer. All the horse training in the world won't help if the rider is trained the same way using the same cues.
Then all the time working with them daily and moving feed around and then any barn repairs and fence fixing/building needed to keep one. Gotta work with them regularly so you can get them in and saddled and pick up their hooves for trimming.
Lots of good bargains out there but usually horses that are just barely green broke and not broke completely or properly. People have too many horses and the ones they get rid of are the ones not ridden in a while who have problems, head tossers, jumpy, won't maintain gait, hard to catch, and the list goes on.
Unless you know training, as a minimum I wouldn't want a horse that you can't walk out with rope and halter and catch with no fuss. Rub its nose, forehead, bend it ears around, touch all over, and then be able to pick up each hoof long enough to pick them clean. Trailer load without pushing pulling and working it. All this with no fuss. Then you have to get on without it moving, walk trot and canter on cue and stop or slow down on cue, turn on cue, all without fuss and hopefully without spurs. Otherwise the horse is a project.
Then you get it home and find out that the horse that was perfect over where you got it doesn't like being alone or at the new place and reverts back anyway.
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