Trotters and Appys - please tell me more

I have what I crudely term a "mongrel spotty mare": but as she's a fewspot there's quite a lot of "app" in her, most probably crossed with a native of some sort. Her mane and tail are a bit wavy and stupidly thick, hence thinking she's probably not a pure appaloosa, and she moves really nicely despite slight deficiencies in conformation. She has the temperament of an absolute angel and is pretty much unflappable, to the extent it's actually problematic because she looks at a supposedly "scary thing", realises it's not going to eat her, and decides she'll eat it instead. :p Agree with everyone else really: they're intelligent, good doers, with strong feet, and lovely kind natures, but don't let them get bored, they'll turn into demons overnight if you do that :lol: Mine's also really fast but a terrible jumper, in comparison with my mum's ex racer anyway, but I think that might just be that the ex racer's actually incredibly slow. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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From what I've seen (I considered a couple when looking for a horse) standardbreds are tough and put up with quite poor treatment and are quite kind too. So all in all Ludo looks as if he has everything to become a brilliant horse - even without the excellent training HHO's sure you'll provide him with :)
 
ycbm said:
I'm hoping I've accidentally bought one. I only saw him in a field of mares (where he let me walk straight up and stroke him) but they told me his temperament was exceptional for a colt, so I figured there was a good chance it would be exceptional for a gelding :)

I'm loving what I'm hearing of both breeds, thanks everyone.
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When my sister got her 2.5 year old back in march he had only been very lightly halter broken.
Within three weeks he could pick up all fpur hooves on the yard and loose in the feild.
He had bitted himself, we brought him a bit and was just holding it working out if it was the right size when he put it in his mouth anf held it there 😂😂 so we just put it on yhe bridle and put it on him and he didnt care.

By month two he had had a rollar on and gone walkies with it up and down the drive, had rugs chucked at him and bar the first little "im not sure" you could see him mentally shrug and get on with it

He is 16hh ish now so he will be like his half brothers (my boys) and be about 16:3ish.
Next year he will have a saddle on, be lent over and sat on and wondered up the drive but thats it. He wont be doing any tyoe of "ridden work" till his fourth year.
He goes for inhand walks round the woods with my sister and the dogs and meets loads of people and has been out inhand showing this year and everyone comments on how well behaved he is for his age.


They like learning, being with you and doing things even if its only 10/15 minutes.
 
My Appy is only part bred but he's almost 100% App I have yet to see any signs of the cob in him apart from maybe his tail getting abit thicker this past year.

Ted is a very affectionate boy but doesn't like to be told he's wrong and He is stubborn very stubborn but if he's doing something he likes he will happily do it but if he doesn't see the fun in it there is a large chance it will end in an argument until he realises it gets him nothing.

This does seem come with his fathers breeding tho as his half brother is exactly the same apparently and is almost 10 years older then Ted. Most tho tend to be very trainable and loving and one people horses and even with the attitude and sass mine has it wouldn't stop be getting another one day even if I do wish he would just be "norma"l some days haha
 
I have a 5yr old registered appy mare (sports horse type), who is fairly slow maturing - she shot up like a weed until she was 4, and then stopped growing upwards but started filling out a bit. I measured her in April at 15'3 and just before Christmas she was 16'1. I think her half brother didn't stop growing until he was 7...

She is incredibly intelligent, learns very quickly, is very gentle but has some strong opinions and as another poster said is not particularly spooky - she will jump, look at whatever scared her and then go to see if it's edible. Positive reinforcement training works brilliantly with her. I took her to her first show at 2, and she was amazing. She's naturally uphill, and very head sensitive (not headshy) - I suspect if anyone heavy handed got hold of her she'd potentially rear.

Unfortunately, she's just had a bout of uveitis which we managed to catch reasonably early, and I'm aware of about 3 appies by the same stallion who have PSSM, so I just manage her as if she has it. So PSSM and eyes are the 2 things to bear in mind with them.

Just out of curiosity, what area did you get him from?
 
He was bred at the Ithon stud in Wales, a breeder of high class harness racers. He was bought as a yearling by a low end stud in Nantwich, where he sired nine foals this year as a two year old by running with the mares. They sold him to me as 'wasted as a stallion'. He is above my expectations in every single way. He was an impulse buy to cheer myself up when I began to realise that I was the wrong home for one of my other two. It's beginning to look like the best impulse I've had in a long, long time.

I'm off to research the early signs of uveitis. PSSM is something I know plenty about, I've had two for three years.

Lovely stories about yours, thanks everyone.
 
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