Describe your horse..?

Darwin is an eight year old 17.1H bay thoroughbred gelding with a star. He looks like a model, with legs up to his ears and a very feminine face. Darwin is not the most athletic of horses, and I don't jump him for fear of him literally breaking a leg. Case in point -- two weeks ago I was free lunging him in the outdoor ring. A simple x-rail was set up in the corner that he could have easily gone around. Instead he panicked, jumped it with both front legs locked straight out together, crash landed afterwards and rolled through the board rail fence.

I got Darwin four years ago from a man who rescued him directly off the racetrack. After I brought him home I looked up his race record -- in the period of two years he had accumulated a grand total of $165 in winnings.

Darwin goes outside during the day and has a box stall at night. If he is not brought in PROMPTLY at 3:00PM every day he will begin racing the fence line at a full gallop until someone "rescues" him from the terror of being outside at 3:01PM.

Despite being the tallest horse at the barn, Darwin is the epitome of a gentle giant. He loves children and will give them hugs or nibble at their hair. He enjoys his daily playtime out in the field with Harry, his four year old QH friend, and they love their King of the Hill game, hiding halters in the run in sheds, and chewing each others blankets to smithereens.

Darwin is absolutely terrified of the following: ponies, golf carts, the white hay shed he has to go past every day, palomino horses, paint horses, gray horses, the blue bench on the side of the outdoor ring, the indoor ring in its entirety, pigeons (literally -- just pigeons, any other type of bird is fine), being left out past 3PM, water, cross ties, and (most of all) when he is forced to endure the terror of being ridden outside the ring.

And that, in a nutshell, is Darwin. :)

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I only lease her, but I'll fill this out anyways...

Name: Lucky

Age: 17, turning 18 March 26th

Gender: Mare

Breed: Thoroughbred

Color: Chestnut

Height: 16.2

Disciplines: Dressage, H/J, XC

History: She was a race horse, raced in one race, placed 4th, and then was bred and had two foals. Then she was bought at a horse auction when she was three by the owner of my barn.

Lifestyle: Stabled at night, pasture during the day.

Characteristics: Moody, greedy, but loving when she wants to be.

Likes: Food of any kind, sticks/logs, bucking (when not being ridden).

Dislikes: Other horses, riders that 'flop' in the saddle.

Funny Habits: She chases other horses around with a stick in her mouth, on the rare occasion that she finds one. Also has a habit of licking you when you turn around, then pretending as if nothing happened when you turn back around to see what had happened.

Cinnamon

Mare

2 1/2

Saddlebred

Chesnut

bout 14.3 hands (just a guess)

Trail Ride She does great. The first time I took her and she tripped a lot but shes getting better and better.

I bought her form my dad's friend and she hadonly been rode once, he got her as a filly from a man who had just died's kids.

Lives in a pasture.

Very Head Strong. She's tough too. She is our smallest horse but second to the top.

Likes:She olves it when you rub your knucles on her forehead. She also lives snow, she picks it like grass.

Fears: Her only fear is lawnmowers, she hates them.

Ginger

Mare

6

Saddlebred but she definitly has Quarter in her.

Sorrel

15 hands

Trail and she is a kids horse so all my little cousins love riding her.

We bought her from a guy off of Craigslist. She was my first horse and his daughters horse.

Pasture

She is gentle and loves to be brushed and rode.

Likes:To be rode and brushed or turned out in the yard and graze.

Dislikes: She is due to foal in May or June and her Stomach is very sensitive so you can't pet her past her shoulder.

Rico

Gelding

7

Sorrel

Saddlebred

16 hands

Trail Ride but he used to be a show horse.

Was a Stud for about 5-6 years and we bought him at an auction.

Pasture

Very well mannered but very dominant in the field which I believe is because he was a stud so long.

Likes: He loves to be rode in a canter, and loves going through deep water and snow.

Dislikes: Hates branches breaking, he is spooked easily.

Tach

gelding

4 years old

Saddlebred

Chesnut

16.3 hands

Trail riding

Don't know a lot other than he is broke to drive. We bought him at an auction.

Pasture

Loves a good trail ride. He also likes to go where there is no trail.

Hates when the weather changes. Its not fun riding him right before a storm. Trust me.

Diamond

gelding

2 years old

Chesnut

Morgan and Saddlebred cross.

14.4-15 hands(He is talled than Cinnamon and shorter than Ginger,

Still working on breaking him but he will be a trail horse.

Born in Virginia and we bought him at an auction.

Pasture

Loner he will not stand up for himself. He is a big baby loves to be petted. He is very clam.

Not a fan of loud vehicles.

Name: Joisy-Marvin (Chinooks Whim)

Age: 11

Gender: Mare

breed: Reg'd Quarter Horse

colour: Bright sorrel, 4 white socks and blaze

height: 15.3hh

discipline: Barrel racing, poles

horses history: Bought her just down the road =] She has always been a barrel horse

lifestyle: Out in the pasture, she really dislikes being stabled

Characteristics: Very much a loner, loves people but rarely tolerates other horses, very very sleepy

Likes/dislikes: likes cow, but has no clue of what to do with them

Funny habits: will steal your coffee and muffins haha

Ella's a 10 going on 11 year old solid Paint mare. She's a liver chestnut with a large blaze and 4 socks. She's 15.1hh.

I ride just english on the flat, I'll be starting western soon and I've been thinking about starting to jump with her (I never could with my old horse, so I'm VERY rusty jumping wise).

We bought her from a man who sold her because she couldn't do the level of team penning that he wanted to do, and before that she showed on the hunter circuit.

She lives out 24/7, she doesn't like being kept in over night even though we're in eastern Ontario. She also doesn't get ant grain, she's chubby right now so she doesn't need it.

She's very sweet most of the time, but she gets greedy with her food out in the paddock. She and the two Shetlands in her paddock are always together, which I find really cute.

She absolutely hates the indoor arena, whenever we go in it to ride she has little hissy fits, she's wonderful outside though. She's also not a fan of puddles, she'll refuse to walk through, until you let her jump over them.

She loves her neck scratched.

I have 4 horses but my favorite will always be Poco.

Name: Poco's Starlight

Breed: Saddlebred/Quater

Color: Black/white paint

Height:16.1

Age: 32 years 4 months

Now days, she is a pasture mare, actually she has been since she turned 22. I have had her most of my life. We got her when she was under a year old. When we got her we found out some guys had stabbed her in the hind quarter, just to get back at the owner who had just fired them. The wound healed properly, but you could always tell where the wound was because the Paint line didn't heal back together. It was zigged. She was always my favorite to ride, because she had one of those dream gaits. Yes she is a great grand-daughter to Poco Bueno.

When I showed her, It was mostly in Western pleasure and Trail.

I never had a problem with Poco until one day I was out trail riding in an new area and we came across a pasture full of sheep. I believe she crawled out of of skin. She freaked out. So I had to get off of her and walk her slowly over to the fence and show her there was nothing to be afraid of. From that day forward, I would always make sure to ride passed the sheep pasture, even if it was out of

the way. She finally got used to them.

Poco is the Alpha of the herd. She keeps the others in line.

She had a habit of stealing my cans of Coke. She preferred a handful of Coca-Cola more than her apple and carrot treats.

Name: BDF Malcom Locke

Age: 15

Gender: Gelding(used to be a stallion)

Color: dun

Height: 14.1hh

Breed: Norwegian Fjord

Dicipline: Pleasure, Low Level Dressage, Trail

History: Malcom was born in Nova Scotia(i forgot exactly what barn) When he was ver young, he had an accident of a sort that permanently damaged his leg. The cause is still to this day unknown. The original owners were not sure that he was going to make it and if he did, if he would even be able to walk. A couple in ohio decided to take a chance on him and bought him. they trained him to be ridden, and bred him. They taught his offspring to ride, drave and anything else they could think of. Another couple in California bought him where they bred and raised fjords to ride in low level dressage shows. They gelded him when he was 13 to add him to their lesson horses and that's where I found him :)

Due to him injury from when he was little, he permanently favors his right hind leg. He's not off(lame), but it's just how he moves.

Lifestyle: He lives in a 12x24 away from the mares(he still sometimes thinks hes a stallion) and has a huge tree shading most of his corral

Likes/Dislikes: well... he likes food.... haha and Nika(his favorite mare of course) He hate's random loud noises(like most normal horses) and he absolutely hates Napenthe(the dutch warmblood gelding where I board him) I'm not sure why. But they just don't like eachother.

And that was my horses information haha :)

Her name is Belle, she's 12-13. She's a "silver" (chocolate dappled body with flaxen mane and tail) and she's an ungaited rocky mountain quarter horse mix. 15.2 hands. I do eventing (show jumping, dressage, cross country) I bought her from a stable. Well technically it was a lady's horse, but we didn't meet her, as she broke her back falling off another horse. So a trainer at the barn she was kept sold her to us. She was a western trail horse thy was starting English riding and was doing cavalettis. She had been sold once before me, because her first owner kept her till she was 4, and as she wasn't gaited, he bred her to get a gaited foal and sold her. When I tried her out I hated her Bc she was so lazy! But my non horsey mom bought her Bc she was pretty...hahaha it all worked out, though she turned into a runaway Speed racer when I brought her home...She lives outdoors in a nice paddock unless it's bad weather, ten she comes into her stall (she is boarded) she is very spunky. She is very sweet, greedy, aggressive towards most horse. She gets very excites when she sees jumps, and her ears prick up. She also loves trail rides and water. Sh is scared of almost nothing, besides the click if the electric fence and miniature ponies. Not kidding! Every time she sees one she looks at it sideways and starts snorting and tries to run away! It's so funny!!! She chews on everything and scratches herself on everything. Sorry for the book!! Ahah(:

Name: Mithril Vincent (Vince, Buddy)

Age:1997

Gender: Gelding

Breed: Welsh sect. B

Colour: Dapple Grey

Height: 12.3

Discipline: English (pretty much just pleasure riding at the moment, but he was a show pony, and we did hacking, dressage, showjumping, cross country and pony club as well as just pleasure riding at home)

History: I bought him after using him to compete at state dressage (team of four) when he was 5.

Lifestyle: I keep him in a medium sized paddock with my other two horses/ponies and sometimes I put him in my fenced backyard after riding or if I need to catch him early in the morning. He lives out 24/7. I live in Australia so it doesn't really get cold enough to warrant more than a rug for Vince especially as we aren't competing anymore.

Characteristics: He bucks and bolts if he isn't ridden frequently.

Likes: Food

Dislikes: Scared of livestock (despite being kept in a paddock with 30 cows), Petrified of moving livestock.

Name- River's Edge Karly's Just Mine (Abbey)

Age- 13

Gender- Mare

Breed- Morgan

Color- Chestnut

Height- 14.3 ?

Discipline- Hunter Under Saddle, English Pleasure (Saddle Seat) Hunter Jumper,

History- Not 100% sure but she's from Michigan and now in Ohio, She was used for taking trips up the road as a western horse (which she is clearly too spunky to be) and she was in a barn full of quarter horses (blah!).

Life Style- Lives in a 16x16 stall and occasionally goes out.

Characteristics- CRABBY, she is always in a bad mood! lol! and she's usually a loner.

Likes- jumping, and going across bridges

Dislikes- Pigs! and plastic bags/tarp.

Funny Habits- she ALWAYS checks your pockets for treats (: