Tell me about your very first horse EVER!?

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Okay, my first horse is the horse I got a month ago! He is a Quarab (well, not to the Quarab occasion, he just a Quarter Horse X Arabian Cross) He's pretty patient for what he's been through. He's fifteen years old, or around that age. He is Bay with two front white socks, a white smudge on the side of his nose, a star on his for head, his front hooves are white while his back are black. He's the best riding horse ever, now. He's a rescue

His story: Some kid (around 10 years old, a boy) owned him. He just rode him, never used a saddle blanket so a lot of his name got rubbed off where the end of this mane is (it's about an inch long now) He worked him hard for hours, then when the kid was done he'd get off, get his saddle & bridle, & just leave. No warm down, no brushing no nothing. Lots of getting beat though. He wasn't fed properly either, he was about 150-200 Pounds under weight when I got him. (I would show you before & after, from the first day he was here until today, but my dumb camera hasn't been working, I'll show before & after from the first day to two & a half weeks instead) His parents told the kid he needed to start taking better care of Tango or they'd sell him. The kid didn't believe him, kept treating him like crap, the parents sold him. Now he gets to live in a foot & a half of mud, crap, & pee at a horrible stable & with his new owner. He lived there for four months (still not properly fed) until he came & to live with me. Now he gets messed with everyday, has goat buddies, the whip no longer touches him, he gets treats, love, attention, exercised, fed correctly, & all a big pasture with nice green grass. Sadly, even though I've had him for a month, he doesn't trust me yet. if I hold my hands the wrong way he thinks he's going to get hit & gets spooked.

Heres the first day with me:

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After two & a half weeks:

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I know he is still skinny, but now you can barely see his ribs! He has to stand a certain way to see them.

How I talked my parents into letting me have him: I begged, got all my school grades up, showed them I'm responsible for a horse by taking care of boarding horses, & being nice.

Price: $420

Funnest story with him so far: Chasing the goats on him. It's fun! Lol. =]

Disastrous times: I used the whip for lunging (not to touch him with it) & I was lunging him, he was being lazy so I picked it up, I wasn't even done getting all the way out of the crouch to the the whip when he saw it, freaked, & tried to take off running from it, & tripped & fell. It was horrible. =[

The funnies Expression I have seen on him is when I fell off the first time. He stopped, look back at me, his ears where pushed forward & he was looking at me like "what are you doing down there?! Thought we were going for a ride!" Lol =]

He loves to run! That's what he wants to do everytime we saddle up. When we do bareback he listens great, doesn't trot unless I ask him to....Show more

My first horse we bought as a 6 month old weanling. Not the smartest choice ever, but can't change that now!

His name is Impulsiv Magneto, and he is registered with AQHA (Appendix) and the American Warmblood Registry, and is an Indian Artifacts grandson.
He is a black gelding, is currently 2 years old and 15.3hh. We were planning to start saddle training this spring, but the vet says his joints are nowhere near closed, so we're probably going to have to wait until he's 3. He's just got too much TB blood in him I guess to mature as fast as the QH colts.

We got him when I decided it would be better to get a young horse so that it could mature and not need a lot of work while I was in college (so dumb!). I didn't have to convince my parents since I'm technically an adult. Anyway, we got up to his breeder's place before he was weaned and he was just the sweetest little quiet baby, and he moved so pretty, and the stud was just so mannerly and impressive. Got our baby vet-checked and paid $4000 for him, then after weaning made the 16-hour round trip to bring him home.

Currently, Magneto is... interesting, to say the least. He loves people and is really friendly, and goes so well when he wants to work, but sometimes he can be a right ***. Had to send him off to the trainer because out of the blue he developed a kicking problem that got worse despite trying all kinds of things and people's advice to get rid of. He doesn't do that anymore (thank god), but he can still get ornery if he doesn't want to lunge. He generally accepts new things calmly (loves his saddle and bridle and bit) though, and is a goofball- he likes to stick his tongue out the side of his mouth....Show more

She wasn't MINE, per se, but I claimed her as such. First off, I was a 15 year old male. She was a 13.2 hand welsh pony with blonde mane and tail named Princess. I'll wait while you picture that and laugh.

She was a therapy horse at a therapeutic riding program, and she was such a B$@(*. But she was funny too, and everyone loved her :P. I used to graze her for an hour when we were both bored waiting around, or longe her and watch this usually pokey pony go running around bucking and kicking, haha. I used to feed her Cokes occasionally too, and she would steal people's muffins or coffee if they left them on tables, hahaha. She was a chunky horse, BTW, to complete the picture. Definitely a small girl's horse, haha (But I didn't mind). The best thing I remember was taking her to a horse show, and she had a miniature horse beside her. She got so angry with this mini, and I think it was because she thought it was smaller and cuter than her and that was just not allowed ;). She passed a couple years ago, but that was the first horse I ever really worked with!...Show more

My first horse is my current horse.

Mystic (aka Monster), grade (draft cross) dun, alpha mare, got her at a rescue, she was dirt cheap, and I didn't have to convince anyone since I was 21 years old and bough her with my own money. It was something I always wanted and my parents knew my flaky personality as a teenager so they wouldn't have bought me a horse during those years so when the time came, I just got my own.

Five years later, we've boarded at about five places now and I also spend thousands of dollars to ship my $400 across the border from Canada to the US and I wouldn't trade her for all the tea in China....Show more

My first horse was called Giselle after the ballet. My grandma gave her too me when I was 6 (we lived in different countries...it was part of her plan to get us to move..it worked!). Giselle had been rescued from a township (in South Africa) where the family who had her tried to kill her with a brick when she was born as they couldn't feed her. The horse rescue asked my grandma to take her which she did. She was always a bit 'not right' so all I could do was feed her carrots and brush her every now and then. Her skull was all malformed due the brick and she didn't live long...but she spent her life munching grass and being petted so not a bad end. Not a great start to horse ownership and it took me 25 years to get the second one, but it planted a seed that grew into a passion!...Show more