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July marked 3 years after selling my gelding Ozzy, I remember the day like yesterday :-S I know he went to a very loving and good home so I'm not worried but I just really miss him. He was probably my heart horse, at least thus far in my life.
I bought him as a 4 year old barrel horse, he had a huge gash on his shoulder from an old stall latch, he was skin and bones. This picture is the first day I brought him back to the barn:
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(Pics should work now)You can see the gash on his shoulder, I had the vet come out and check it to make sure he didn't need stitched but she said as long as we clean it twice a day it wasn't bad enough for stitches. About a month later it was healed over, of course he still had a scar but it made him a bit more unique, you could barely see it, even the hair grew back over it! Everyone had asked what I saw in this skinny, cut up kind of spooky horse. And honestly I couldn't tell them exactly, I looked into his eyes when I went to try him out and just fell in love
After a few weeks of lunging and letting him get fat and getting his pigeon toes worked on (never bothered him, the farrier I had knew exactly how to keep his feet healthy) I took him on his first trail ride, he was a crazy 4 year old for sure. I bet he probably spooked and bolted about 3 times. But I was definitely determined to keep him, I knew when I bought him I wanted him as a hunter or dressage horse, his previous owner said he loved to jump and when I free lunged him and set up some cross railed in the first month, she was so right. He loved it!
I took him to a local trainer who I had taken lessons under, she instantly fell in love with him and he was just the joke of the barn with his personality. He was NEVER a bad horse, but he sure had his quirks. When you fed him you couldn't leave his water buckets in his stall, he would spit his food in the water then drink all his water and eat the soggy food at the bottom =)) and he would sit in his stall like a weirdo too :))

I trained him under my trainer and we did lots of dressage training, he was such a handsome boy in english tack. Had a whole bunch of people think he was Thoroughbred but he was a sprinting bred Quarter horse, he was FAST let me tell you. He had a bad habit of bolting the first year or so I had him and catching him before he bolted was so hard because he was out like a rocket as soon as he could get himself together.

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Look at how cute we were at our first dressage show (We placed 4th! With a 72, pretty good for a 5yr old noodle)
I wish I had videos of him jumping, he loved it. By the end of that summer we were jumping 3' courses and just loving every second of it. Never got to compete except one schooling show over cross-rails! The trainer I was at didn't do hunters but a barn I worked at later that year let me board him for free as long as I helped her around the barn 4 or 5 days a week and we did hunter under saddle and he was SUCH a perfect boy for it. He has so much chrome just because he was solid golden chestnut with a blaze. No socks, no markings. He was so pretty doing hunters, I wished I had done more with him and taken him to some shows.

Sadly soon after that I had to sell him, I had young girl who was interested in hunter jumpers buy him and she fell in love with him. When he turned 6 it was like something in his brain clicked and he turned into such a lazy guy, of course I'd been riding him for 2 years and we worked wonders together but this little girl loved him and I knew he'd go to a good home.
Here's some of his for sale pictures, he was so handsome:
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B72nmZuHGRbndGNOZk5DNDlaekE/view
He almost always had his ears turned like this in his pictures, eventually after time after time of trying to get his ears up I figured it was just him and laughed along with it haha :) (Will edit these two later tonight when I get some time :) )

Okay, okay I know I've gone on WAY too long about a horse I don't even own. But sometimes I just miss him a whole bunch and I do regret having to sell him. Unfortunately being in college and soon to be moving out doesn't leave much room to buy a horse or even lease a horse. I get my horse fill in my helping a girl train her barrel horse (Never run barrels but I help her train for ground work and the basic movements and stuff that helps get a horse 'lifted' and listening to leg, like every horse should).

Well, if you've read this far I appreciate it so much and I'd love to hear about your heart horse that maybe you currently own/lease/ride or have owned/leased/ridden in the past!

Thanks everybody for reading!
(P.s. really hoping the picture links are working, otherwise I'll find another way to share them!)