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Location: Saskatchewan | I have no idea what my mares lineage is, when I got her she hadnt been within 30ft of a person.
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Location: Arkansas | I think she's beautiful, whatever she is!! |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | My little HS rodeo mare was a mutt..technically a pony but we kept her shod so she hit 14 hands so I could legally ride her in 4-H, LOL!!! In our county you could no longer show ponies when you were over the age of 12. She was out of a quarter horse mare and by an Arab stallion. The owner of the mare had the mare boarded while he was out of town hunting, apparently the stud got out and there were several half Arab crosses from his romp that night.
Ginger was built like the QH and then had the little dished face of the Arab and a motor and a half but was totally sane. The guy I feed leased her from wanted to rope and felt she was too little for him to do that on so we traded horses, he took my Appy gelding and I took Ginger to run gymkhana events on in 4-H and to Jr. Rodeo off of. In HS I did a little break away and team roping on her too and the guys used her to steer wrestle off of. Basically she was only tied to the trailer during rough stock events. I started showing her in the Showmanship classes for 4-H too because the horse I used for Western Pleasure was a pig on the ground. She owned those classes!!!
When she got older and my western pleasure gelding had to be put down I started showing her WP also at smaller shows, she adapted pretty well. There was an older lady in the riding club that had been injured riding years before that was scared to ride but still loved horses. She would come to the shows and "borrow" Ginger to lead around the arena to get her horse fix, Ginger was the only horse she would even do that with, I think her small size wasn't as intimidating for Dixie.
That little mare ran tough and competitive up to 28 years old, a young girl I had in gymnastics decided to HS rodeo her senior year of HS after breaking her hand and it not setting correctly. She tried my younger mare and it was just not a good fit, especially with a hand in a cast. I was still running Ginger lightly and they hit it off beautifully, we rubber banded to the rein to Jackie's hand and changed her directions because of the cast, they ended up qualifying to state in barrels from their district but she chose not to go, we both worried about the haul and the stay on a horse that age. I quit running her all together a year or so later, just felt she had more than given back to me and after a run she was starting to come up sore the next day. I still hauled her with me, loaned her to kids for lead line classes. You didnt' dare leave the yard without her!!!
She is buried were my first barrel used to be set in our back pasture looking out towards the creek bed that we did 99% of our riding in along with a lot of silver and a saddle.
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Location: Kansas |
is she a red dun? Pretty little thing, I have a yearling red dun filly who is a lighter color like your mare. |
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Posts: 822
Location: Southwest New Mexico | I have a mare who's mom was registered Apha and dad was unknown. Either arabian or thoroughbred but she definitely looks thoroughbred. And I'm also training a colt that's half Morgan half qh who is amazing |
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Location: Saskatchewan | hoofs_in_motion - 2016-08-23 1:18 PM
is she a red dun? Pretty little thing, I have a yearling red dun filly who is a lighter color like your mare.
Yep! She's about as red dun as red dun could be!
Kind of looks like a mule some days, but that's okay LOL |
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