My next equine project horse

Super Ted. Foot perfect from plaiting to arriving home. He absolutely adored being taken out, it has been a good while. He lost half of 2017 when he had that awful virus, then he wasn't sound for a good bit of 2018.

He was very strong in the class but his rider can hide it most of the time and with no ride judge it was ideal. Only 8 in his class but they were nice enough for the level. One of the 8 was a hunter pony of 12.2. It was allowed to stay in the ring as there were no entries in the hunter pony class. Tiny dot on it and the pony was golden but was very much in charge and when it went galloping up the inside of Ted and got between the boards and a cantering Ted I have to admit I held my breath. Ted has never kicked whilst under tack, but his rider will ask for leg yield as the horse gets strong or on its head so the prospect of a squished pony was high. It would been far safer to put the big horses on the wall and judge the pony individually before giving it first prize and sending it out in my view.

The judge said Ted was 'quite a horse' we are undecided if that is an insult or compliment !! but he will always be a superstar to us and we are very proud of how far he has come.
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Goldenstar said:
I hope you will forgive my ignorance is Ted being shown as a maxi cob ? I love his tail btw .
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He doesn't fit into any category other than cart horse sadly so certainly no ignorance ! He is 17.2 so far too big for maxi cobs. He was in a open mixed weight hunter class at local level today. Apart from the bridle he was turned out as a hunter and ridden as a hunter with all 4 paces shown. No ride judge so just the go round in a group followed by an individual show. He goes nicely if he keeps the lid on his anxiety. As soon as he get worried he reverts to getting his knees up by his chin and looking like a Shire horse in harness. He had a rubber pelham on with a leather curb, he will never cope with a double bridle.
 
Goldenstar said:
So my new horse has been shown as a hunter .
I don’t know what type perhaps a middleweight to my eye .
So he could do a class like Ted did today ?
As I say I know diddly squat about showing .
I going to drive you mad AA
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I looked at your new horse on your thread yesterday and my first thoughts were hunter showing and workers. He could easily do a class like Ted did today and probably far higher standard too.
 
Goldenstar said:
I need to look in to where I can go and watch some showing .
They have trailblazers showing classes don’t they .
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Yes, that would be an ideal start. I just looked at his advert pictures. Only 7 yrs and 16.3h he will keep growing for a while yet. He looks like he has plenty of bone, he may well mature to HW. Join the facebook group - Irish Draught & IDSH owners group. Lots of ID info, shows etc.
 
Gs does anyone near you run showing clinics? Might be worth looking at?

Sorry you have had such a crap time. I hope new horse will prove a good distraction.

AA Ted looks magnificent. You have got to stop calling him a carthorse. He Is gorgeous.
 
OldNag said:
Gs does anyone near you run showing clinics? Might be worth looking at?

Sorry you have had such a crap time. I hope new horse will prove a good distraction.

AA Ted looks magnificent. You have got to stop calling him a carthorse. He Is gorgeous.
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That is a good idea, we took a five year old Alice to meet Robert and Claire Oliver at a clinic, and they gave a very honest appraisal of her. Basically 20 years ago she would have been a top small hunter, as 20 years ago a correct small was a scaled down middleweight, which is what she is. However today a small is a very fat light of bone small TB or a very tall fat overgrown hunter pony. They advised me not to register her as success was unlikely. They also advised against trying to turn her into a lightweight cob as although she looked cobby at 5 she did mature into a hunter by 7. We have had fun in ID classes though and have won 2 good small hunter classes at ID regional shows.
 
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