Would you have this horse on your livery yard?!

I would turn him out with my mare. Sweetest thing in the world swith all horses until they are aggressive and then she turns into Godzilla! They get to know not to mess with her!
 
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Yes I'd take him on livery as I'm into the whole personalised, specialist care packages, but it would have to be full (without work - you still get that bit to do :p) and I'm afraid due to his demands the price would be quite high ;). Tbh he doesn't sound like a huge amount of trouble if you can give him what he wants. But I've owned a horse who requires a personal assistant service so doesn't really bother me.
 
He sounds hilarious any chance of a photo of him?

Loved Auslanders comment about the swirls being from where the horns were my instructor says my D's ears curve in like most Welsh have and it's like devil horns!
 
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I suspect you are right! At the end of the day, he seems happy, I put up with him and he isn't going anywhere. I used to find him hugely frustrating but now we have him in a routine that suits him, I just now find him amusing!! He's the 4th ex-racer I have had - all the others were so easy but were all pants at the day job. I do wonder if the fact he was a decent racer makes a difference.
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I think it is so down to the horse.
My ex-racer is 19 this year, I got him at 8. He won his last 4 races in a row and many others. But has always been a calm soul, even as a 2yo racing fit.

He was turned away for a year due to tendon before I got him. Had a few teething issues, but he loves turn out (except in this current weather) and is the first to want to go out if he has been in for the night. Although he is also good at box rest if needed

If it was possible to wrap him in bubble rap and cotton wool I would chuck your boy out in a herd on lots of acres and see if he remembers how to be a horse.

However, my friends special case warm blood is similar to your boy- does not know how to horses. He was in a mixed herd and although he was happy to stay out, he was forever getting in the way and injured. Although his worse injuries to date have been self inflicted (op for chipped bone!)
 
Bubble wrap and send him out on the hills for a year lol! You must have the patientce of a saint especially being 9 months pregnant- GOOD LUCK and CONGRATULATIONS!

I would have him if I had acres and acres of land. I don't though so I'm out ;)
 
I got my ex racer as a 3 year old out of training for a few months and had her on the yard for a few weeks whilst arranging to have her teeth checked, feet done, Physio checked etc and then she was turned away in September with the intention of leaving her out until the spring. After a few weeks she had a foot abscess = easily sorted. Then she started to develop rainscald = she was rugged but even had it on her eyelids. After 8 weeks of being on 30 acres of good grass, with hay, additional feed, rug and plenty of company she was miserable and losing a dramatic amount of weight. I got her in and it took months to regain her condition. She is now rising 6. Lives in but has daily turnout in summer and twice daily 1/2 hour turnout in manège in winter plus daily work. She has to be the first horse to leave the stable in the morning and will only settle/eat her hay once she has left her stable for some kind of exercise in the morning. She will then stand and eat/doze quite happily until after lunch when again she needs to do something in order to settle. She will self harm if left out in bad weather or for longer than she wishes. She will not eat hay from the floor so she has it in a tub in her stable but wastes whatever she drops in her bed. If her routine is not adhered to she will head bang to the point you expect her neck to dislocate. Her racing life has left her with very clear expectations of morning exercise and strict routine without which she can become very stressed. However, she is beautiful, sweet natured (mostly) and is the most sensible hack I've ever owned - has never bucked/reared/napped or refused to do anything asked of her so I try to repay her by keeping her in the way that she prefers. Luckily I rent my own premises and I'm there full time so I can easily accommodate her demands. She proved to me in the most alarming manner that chucking her out and forgetting her till spring was not the way forward and now I cherish and pamper her. I put it down to the fact that she was owned and bred by the Queen so she is in fact royalty and I've had to soften the blow of her falling into the ownership of a peasant ��
 
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