Been emailed on another forum... the reply is worrying
"hi. thanks for your email. he gos out once or twice a mouth.he has only seen hounds not hunted. we have always started our horses at 2 & a half. yes you can clip him we have always show ours the cliper at a young age it make life a lot easy later on in life. no we have
not loaded him yet. but we going to start. dam exfoozle. as horse run in the family line i think
we do know what we our doing grandfather top hackey breeder and judge/nan is a frankcome. so we our thick."
Funny with the so we our thick...but not really when it comes down to it. Poor horse
Yeah itl be either half knackered or nuts by then. I hope someone buys him and lets him have a nice year or two off before he does any more jumping.
Are people idiots? i thought it was common knowledge not to jump youngsters?
My pony was like this when I bought her from a breeder. After a month with us & having physio we found out her back was knackered. It is ok now but she will never carry top weight & needed 12/18 months of being a baby.
She's fine now but is still slightly loopy, mainly I think because she was faced with too much too young & was/is a willing type & didn't create a fuss until it got just too much for her.
Makes me very angry & very sad when I see things like this :9
Why is everyone so upset about it being backed at two. Look at it - it looks very well grown. Would you want to get on it at 3 or 4 when it's bigger and stronger.
And remember - it's actually now in it's 3rd year. It doesn't sound as if anything has been done to the detriment of its physical or mental health.