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Comment by Tom Mittower on March 14, 2012 at 12:17pm

Of the four, my favorite is Toe Dough.  He's a arabian stallion that my autistic grand daughter absolutely loves.  They are both 7 now and get along so well.  He's done so much for her self-confidence and he is so willing to please.  I continue to work on the facilities of an arena and stalls - one day to open an equine center for special needs kids and service members.

Comment by KAREY WELLIVER on March 14, 2012 at 12:16pm

The first time I rode Jenny I was not looking for another horse. My horse Sheila had a foot absess and I could not ride her. We were running some cows that day so Larry, the man who owns the place I board at told me  "Go out in the pasture and grab that grey horse out there. She hasn't been ridden in a bit but she will be good for you". I went and grabbed Jenny got her all tacked up and as nervous as I was to get on this horae who I did not know and had not been ridden in a while I jumped on. It was a match made in heaven!! As soon as my butt hit the tack I knew I had to have her. I thought it she did it. It was like we were conected in someway. Larry told me she was for sale and was nice enought to arange a payment plan for me. Sadly enought 1 month later my horse Sheila died. I was heart broken. I loved her more then words can say. I never thought Jenny would be able to take her place and Iam not sure I would even own a horse right now if it were not for the fact that I had already bought Jenny. Over the last 2 years that I have had Jenny my love for her has grown to epic size. She is my everything, she is unreplacable in my mind, we have more fun together her and I then I everthought possible on a horse. If Sheila had not been ill I would never have ridden her, I would never have bought her and I would never have realized my horsey dream! 

Comment by Breana on March 14, 2012 at 12:03pm

I had been working and training at a barn and finally got permission from my parents to buy my own horse. I looked for about 3 days and then stumbled across this 4 year old appendix mare. I went to look at her and it was love at first sight. Big brown eyes and kind soul, I loved her right then. I climbed up in the saddle and just knew she was the one. She had about 7 rides on her then, totally green but yet, very willing to work and please. I took her home the next day. I loved her from the first day, and i will love her to the last. She is now cantering, jumping, giving lessons to little kids and hopefully inspiring others to love their horses as much as I love Lily. <3

Comment by Bonnie on March 14, 2012 at 12:00pm

I first saw MapleLeaf on a sales website. I thought his pic looked cute and I was sort of looking for  a resale project.  I didn't email about him then, just went back to the barn and started cleaning stalls. Well I do my best thinking while cleaning stalls and suddenly it seemed reallly important to me to email about him before someone else did.  I emailed and got a response shortly after. he was 8 hours away. I couldnt do that, but when she said she was trailering another horse just 21/2 hours away I bought him sight unseen. He was 2 then.  I  fell in love  in the first 2 weeks. Now he is 7 I could have sold him 10 times. He has done everything  i ever asked of him. he jumps, does dressage, he does a few lessons, hacks out He has even been to a dear friends funeral. I'am so glad i went back in that day to email  the owner.

Comment by Judi Masson on March 14, 2012 at 11:56am

Yes good luck came my way and led me to my Andy.  My daughters and I had visited Adena Springs Retirement Program in September and we purchased 2 three year olds for my oldest daughter.  While we were there, the program manager took us into the race barn and introduced us to her favorite stallion, a stunning chestnut named Agenor.  The following June we went back to have a look at a few that were available and I asked about this handsome horse that was very interested in what was going on.  I was told he had just been gelded and would be available in about a month.  Apparently, he had been taken off the track sound and gelded for a client who was looking for an event horse.  They ended up turning him down and we went back to see him at the end of July.  My daughter trotted him 5 or 6 steps and said "buy him"!  I did and he has been with us for the past 3 years and we love him to bits.  He is the only horse who has ever stolen my heart and he is spoiled rotten and very much loved.

Comment by Kenzie on March 14, 2012 at 11:56am

When I was a small child, my Dad promised me when I was a "big" girl he'd help me buy a palomino paint pony, well the years went by and as I got older and into eventing I forgot my childhood dream horse. I purchased a wonderful dark bay tb gelding, he was such a special horse and he taught me so much about myself and riding. Sadly and quite suddenly he coliced and passed away during surgery at the OVC. I was devastated and so heart broken I did not want to look at other horses. A few months passed and I began browsing horse for sale ads just lightly, I seem to find a problem with every horse I looked at comparing it directly to Edgar. Then I came across my mare's ad, a 15.2 palomino paint mare who would make a good event prospect, she turned out to be everything I needed to help me recover from the lost of my tb and get back into riding. It was defiantly luck that I found her ad and was able to purchase her. We named her Sliver lining as she was the sliver lining to a heartbreaking incident. 

Comment by Jessica Henneke on March 14, 2012 at 11:53am

I was at summer camp and my instructer had asked me if I would like to try riding a new pony for my lesson. I was really nervous because he had just come recently come from the slaughter house and NO students had ridden him yet! My instructer helped me get him ready. I got on him. He was very quick and rough at first but as I began to calm down, he did also. I just knew that he was right for me!

Comment by Stacy Sull on March 14, 2012 at 11:53am

My husband asked me what I wanted to do for Valentine's Day...I said, as a joke, "I want to go look at some young warmblood horses in Idaho."  I was so surprised when he said, "Okay, we'll do that."  That was my first inkling that he was serious about buying a new dressage prospect.  Well, we went on Valentine's weekend to see the three young horses the owner brought from her ranch.  Although I really liked them, I just wasn't smitten.  Then my instructor at the time saw a 6yo Swedish mare up in Washington with super bloodlines, and she was hot to trot for me to go have a look.  So my husband, then 5-year-old daughter and I packed into the car and made the 13 hour trip from Montana to Auburn, Washington.  I saw the mare, and she was gorgeous.  I rode the mare, and although she felt like she had a lot of training holes, I felt that, with work and patience, I could bring her around.  Well, my husband offered a price, and they accepted, so the vetting was scheduled.  I flew up to Washington with high hopes a few weeks later for the vetting.  The mare was just as gorgeous as I had remembered, but just didn't seem right.  When she was put on the lunge, she was so very obviously lame, we didn't even go through with x-rays.  I was so disappointed.  I have a feeling, when I first went to look, they had given her something so her "training holes" could have actually been a glimpse of the soreness I saw on Vet Check Day. 

I came home with a heavy heart.  My husband was very supportive.  I had been looking at young horses on a website in South Dakota, and the horses were advertised as "not hothouse flowers -- raised OUTSIDE."  Well, coming from Montana, my husband thought that one of those horses would be much better suited for our place in Montana than the coddled mare from Washington anyway.  I requested their video, started watching.  I liked two geldings I saw very much.  Then I saw 3-year-old RF Latten.  I immediately fell in love.  He had excellent conformation, beautiful, floaty movement and a gorgeous head.  The final straw was when I watched him, at the end of the video, go to the corner and pick up a white splint boot in his mouth and carry it around the arena, not missing a beat, with a mischievous look in his eyes.  I immediately took the video to one of my riding buddy's house an hour away to see what she thought.  She too thought he was "The One." I immediately contacted the farm and made arrangements for a vetting. 

The rest is history, as he vetted clean.  We made the trip to South Dakota, took him home, and he ate and drank all the way home on the 1 1/2 day trip like a seasoned pro.  I had him started at the end of August and then back to the trainer's for a refresher course after winter.  I trail rode him for an entire year with the coaching of my colt trainer up and down the mountain.  That trail riding paid off, and now he is coming 6 in June, and we are preparing to show 1st level after a short (due to the EHV-1 scare), but very successful, show season last summer at Training Level. 

One of the neatest things is that I started taking dressage lessons on him from my trainer in Sandpoint, Idaho, last year and she liked him so much, she bought his yearling full brother, so now I get to watch his full (and look-alike) sibling come along under the training of my instructor.  Don't believe them when they tell you you can't buy a horse off a video.  I did it and have been so lucky! 

Comment by Nell Scannon on March 14, 2012 at 11:53am

Well, I was searching for my partner online.  You know, the usual way.  I'd hunted around, dated a few, but nothing 'clicked'.  I made an appointment with her breeder, but to see a different horse.  I got there, was graciously welcomed and shown around.  I saw a couple young geldings, one chestnut with a lovely snowflake on his rump, but it just didn't feel quite right.  We were standing around, kicking the dust, and she said offhand, "Would you like to see the filly that was born last night?" WELL WOULD I! 

I was led over to a stall, with my non-horsey friend in tow, and we peeked over the top of the door.  It was like little ANGELS had landed on my shoulders.  She was a leopard from head to toe, perfectly sized chestnut spots and slender ears that curled in at the tips. Her breeder walked in with her and her big, 16.3 hand mama and beckoned for me to pet her.  She was a little nervous, but so soft and like a little piece of heaven.

So, you can pretty much guess what happened after that! She's 7 this year and those chestnut spots have turned to a dark chocolaty brown, but she still has those curled ears and is big just like her mom.  I still have the pictures my friend took with her phone :)

 

Comment by Wendy Blough on March 14, 2012 at 11:52am

I was very lucky to get the horse I always wanted!! My husbands cousin and I were horse shopping and I saw a mare that I liked and she was pregnant so I bought her .She was all white but her mother was a palomino.I have always wanted a palomino and  to my surprise she had a beautiful  golden palomino colt with a big blaze and 4 white stockings. He is my pride and joy. Very smart and laid back. He is the perfect horse for me.

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