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7) Best Dressage Horse

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If this is to do with the appoloosa, you must remember that a lot of people on here followed their heart but with very different circumstances. For instance i followed my hear because i got a pony that needed a lot of work and naped badly, took off with me etc etc and i wasnt really ready for it but thats very different to following your heart with a broken down horse that could be on deaths door anyway.
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I bought both of mine with my heart and have been very lucky so far.
As i said in the other post, Maddy was a 13.2hh mare, no muscle and very very underweight, and she was unbroken. She had awful mainge and had lost huge patches of hair from her face, neck and sides, cowered in the corner of the stables or acted very aggressively. Bought her 8 years ago when I was about 13/14. we were told she was 6 but the vet thought she was at least 12. She turned out to be a wonderful jumping pony, beautiful looking and a real sweety (most of the time)

Flash didn't really tick any of the boxes of what I would have looked for, age, type and size wise, when I tried him out I couldn't get him to work for me at all but I was completely in love and had to have him. We've got a wonderful relationship now and he really is my horse of a lifetime. You just get this gut feeling when its the right thing to do.
Also, we didn't go out looking for horses, they 'found us'. Maddy was brought onto the yard on trial for someone else, and a friend of mine was selling Flash for someone else and I saw him and just knew he would be mine. I hadn't even ridden for about 4 years and wasn't looking for a horse!
 
Well because pickle was for me and my dad, I kind of had to go the head route as dad is very practical!
Allthough once we thought he ticked all the boxes it was defintely heart that made us buy him
 
I definately followed my heart....... I think if I said I followed my head people that know my boy would have me locked up
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Hobdayed, Arthritis of the coffin joint and an outright THUG but I love him to bits and would'nt be without him
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Clever question. I bought my youngster back from the people who'd bought her because I couldn't bear what they'd done to her (and they were bored with her anyway... this is the least boring ride imaginable). It's taken nearly a year to sort her out with a LOT of help and I've spent half that time trying to sell her because she's exactly not what I should have - I'm not the type to bring on a youngster. Now, i'm glad I didn't, but if you'd asked 6 weeks ago...

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It was a pony for my daughter, a bit of an emergency purchase as the loan pony had made it clear he didn't want to do it any more at the age of about 27. The brief was "one just like Max, but bigger and younger." Ted was the first pony we looked at for sale, I took one look at his big kind face and thought "he'll do" He was 5 years old, we took him on a week's trial and booked a 5 stage vetting. He pulled a shoe off in the exercise part of the vetting, so that stopped that. I just asked the vet "Would you buy him? to which the answer was an instant "Yes", and so we bought him. He is the most wonderful, kind pony you could ever wish to find. Hardened horsewomen like the DC go gooey eyed when Ted is about and cluck over him. And every class we have entered at a show has resulted in a rosette. Other people now looking for ponies say to us, we want a "Teddy"
First pony I've ever bought, and I couldn't have chosen a better one - I had no help from any expert, I just believe that we were meant to have him. I later found out that he was born at the top of the road where we live (He is a "proper" New Forest Pony, bred and born on the open Forest)
 
I went over to england on a horse hunting trip, fell in love with him (recommended by a v. good lady)
because he was forward going, honest and perfect, (cough....should learn more about conformation but anyway!!) in every way.
I have just fallen in love with them!
 
When I bought Axel I was 6 months pregnant! I wasn't even looking to buy a horse at the time, but I saw the advert and photo of him in the local tack shop and really liked him. He was local so I went to see him with my boyfriend who was under strict instruction to STOP me from buying him as I was only looking
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We watched Axey trot across the field and he moved so nicely that OH said 'He's lovely, you need to buy him!!' and that was that, he was delivered the next week.
He is an absolute star and I love him to bits
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