Jordy is an ex halter horse. We got him becuase the breeder went broke
when she and her husband were divorced - something about her spending time
in the stall with her trainer - who wasn't her husband. Jordy was gelded
(at five) and sold as a pleasure horse. He was a basket case from the
"halter treatment" and the woman who bought him was a new rider - so it
didn't work and Jordy got a bad rap. We bought him about 15 months ago and
threw him out in the pasture for six months. He had an attitude but my
mares soon performed an attitude adjustment on him.
He became more mellow as time went on. After about six months we sent him
to a "trainer" - who trail rode him daily in the forest for six weeks.
Kathy has been riding him regularly for the past nine months and he is now
a laid back cool dude - his true personality.
Truman
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>Gwen D. had some comments about people with misinformed opinions of Arabs. I
>like to point out to people with that attitude that Ben Amil, who was 5th in
>the Big South Fork 50 this past weekend, is also my 9-year old daughter's Pony
>Club horse. Although he is endurance fit and not "show-shape fat", she also
>does quite well with him in small shows in our area. She rides him because he
>is the safest horse available. He is well-mannered and sensible, in large
>part because he is not kept in a stall and overfed like many halter horses.
>I'd get a reputation for being high-strung and crazy, too, if I was kept in a
>12 x 12 room for 23 hours out of every day!
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>Dave Bennett
>e-mail: idj3q.office@mhs-tva.attmail.com
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The race is not always to the swift, but to those that keep running.
Truman and Mystic "The Horse from HELL" Storm
prevatt@lds.loral.com - Sarasota, Florida
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