What more can i do with my yearling colt?

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YearlingMadness

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Hello.
I've just purchased a yearling colt (Was born June last year.) from a sale a few months ago to sell on as a two year old.
He is so quiet, welsh secton D. so far we have:
Picked up feet
Tied up
Lead out on roads
Longreining
We've just started a bit of lunging in a head collar and he walks on and stops on voice command.

Just wondering if there is anything else you would do with him if i want to sell him as a two year old when shall i start to ride him?

I will upload pictures once i work out how!
 
If you are selling as a two year old then there is no need to ride him. His new owner will probably start that a year later.
 
Break him to cart, then you don't have to ride him yet, make sure he cracks on though, no dallying up the road...
 
Breed from him ! Lots of fluffy babies ;)

-backs out before the bullying card is pulled-


P.s let him be a baby ! Don't lunge or ride
 
He's really chunky so i dont think it will make much diffrence having him backed now, i want to sell him as a backed/ridden on 2 year old..

He has had tack on and had my daughter sit on him whilst grazing in the field so don't think it will bother him?

I did think about breaking him to drive at some point but i'm not experianced in driving and only experianced in riding.
 
You want to ride a yearling? Seriously??? That's just stupid.

Stick him in a field, handle him daily but most of all let him eat and grow!!!!
 
Well if you do sit on him make a sure you get a picture of a big man on him, makes him look really strong. And make sure your daughter doesn't have a hat on in the picture, makes him look safe.

*disclaimer- obviously not!!*
 
I know the perfect place to sell him. The Facebook equivalent of Dragon Driving - horses free to good home or under £200 - you will find plenty of like minded people on there!!! Although they will expect you to come out from under your bridge and deliver him for free up to 300 miles away!!
 
I'm not sure I'd wait until he's 2 to ride him, the back end of this summer should be absolutely fine, especially with him being so quiet, why wait? He'll definitely be worth more if he's broken I appreciate your honesty with not having broken to drive before but Have a bash at teaching him to drive anyway, if you're wanting to sell him, it won't matter if you don't know what you're doing but please don't forget about the Liverpool driving bit, a snaffle won't give you any leverage at all and it's safer. I also think he should have a set of shoes on, the pounding on the roads will certainly wear his feet away.

Good luck with selling him, hope you make a huge profit on him. I think there is a lot of call for broken to ride and drive 2YO colts about, more so if you can prove he's covered. :D:D:D:D
 
Pffft amateurs !

Forgot he needs to shod all round and jumping 4ft by two ! Lots of lunging brilliant for joints. Get a rolkur on him so he looks pretty and blag he is the son of valegro ;)
 
jemima*askin said:
This sort of thing always worries me:( If someone is so ignorant that they consider it necessary to have a two yo rideable in order to sell it, how will they know which of the "funny" suggestions are inappropriate?
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I think it's the fact that this is quite obviously a troll post and answers are therefore very much tongue in cheek :rolleyes: the name yearlingmadness gives it away
 
I think what J*A is saying is that if somebody else stupid enough to think its ok stumbles upon this thread they may take the sarcastic comments seriously...probably unlikely but then again there are some pretty idiotic people out there!
 
Sorry re-reading your post I can see you understood what she was saying, and infact I think I read J*A's posted slightly incorrectly...silly me :D
 
What about teaching him piaffe - you can do that in hand before you break him to ride.
 
I have met people who find it perfectly accepabtle to break yearlings, people who deal with a lot of horses.

At one job in oz i was made ride a pony yearling that was being broken, it killed me to do it and i would have left straight away had I not been all alone in bloody Tasmania with no money but I left two weeks later. They broke all their racehorses as yearling which is quite common but to do it with a pony was a bit of a joke and she was saying to all her friends send your ponies here when they are one and we will break them.
They currently have sent one of their fillies in for proper racehorse training, she wont be 2 till october....
So I for one am not shocked by this
 
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YearlingMadness said:
Hello.
I've just purchased a yearling colt (Was born June last year.) from a sale a few months ago to sell on as a two year old.
He is so quiet, welsh secton D. so far we have:
Picked up feet
Tied up
Lead out on roads
Longreining
We've just started a bit of lunging in a head collar and he walks on and stops on voice command.

Just wondering if there is anything else you would do with him if i want to sell him as a two year old when shall i start to ride him?

I will upload pictures once i work out how!
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Shame you didn't breed him really, you could have sat on his back soon as he was born.
 
The BHS has a lot of comments about young colts but there are too many in any case and far too many horses are bred at the middle and lower end of the market. Geld.
 
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