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So I managed to get Sierra all loaded up and transferred to my place.
A little history on him, my Dad had his mare bred 13 years ago as the breeder owed him a favor. I was given pick of the stallion(they had a few) but the mare Duchess, a Quarter/Arab cross, had other ideas and decided the paint I chose was not someone she wanted to hang around with. She became friends with a black QH stallion, and many months later a little bay fireball was born. I halter broke him and started teaching him some ground manners. I soon became pregnant, and working with a frisky young stallion and the fact that I lived in the city, had a full time job etc, made further training too risky for me. We moved out to my Dad's for a summer when my son was under a year while we built our house, there the stallion was very smart and always getting into trouble, I taught him respect and got him gelded(he was crypto, we went for state of the art laparoscopy surgery) I moved out into my own place soon after, and moved my gelding Rune, and Baby out with me knowing that I did not have the facilities to keep the smart trouble maker Sierra contained. This horse could get through any fence, Dad finally put up electric and this horse figure out to get a stick in his teeth and knock the line off the insulators.
I know my Dad did not work with him over the intervening years, I think he threw a saddle on him once, but I doubt he was ever brushed, just petted and fed.(It gave my Dad a reason to get up every day after he retired)
So now with my Dad gone, I have moved him here with me, and its time to give him some training and a job so he has a chance of a life if I can't look after him.
Considering his history I was expecting skittishness, or bitterness, but he just loves to be brushed and made much off. He does not startle, he freezes and examines things. He plants his feet, not prancy at all, and is super smart. I know he already knows how to lunge(though I can do that with him with no actual line) He just wants to please you with every core of his being.
This guy is going to be a breeze to train. And he is not a little guy so hoping he will be reliable enough for my husband to feel secure on him. I do have to teach him to lower his head as I can't reach to his pole if he is standing at attention lol.
Here is a few pictures from this morning
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152367091221786&set=pcb.10152367095666786&type=1&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152367091031786&set=pcb.10152367095666786&type=1&theater
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