Awww, what a cute little yearling for sale. He looks well cared for and like he has a great chance to grow up to a cute little riding horse.
!! YEARLING WITH BALD FACE & BLUE EYE !! – $88
“We have for sale a yearling unregistered ovaro paint stud colt. Pegasus is a beautiful chestnut stud colt that has the ovaro pattern with a bald face and a blue eye. This colt has been ridden 4 or 5 times. He will make a great project to take home and finish out. No buck, kick, or rear, just real green. This colt has great color and will make a super sharp horse when is mature. Take him home and make him the way you want him.”
Wait. What?
BLAMO and, might I add, FAIL!
Why the frack is she wearing spurs? Encouragement for the little baby to move forward under the immense, bone-deforming weight of the rider? Hopefully not. (BTW – that’s not meant to be a comment on her weight/size, more that ANY rider of ANY size is too much for a horse this young.) Too lazy to take them off? Probably.
STOP RIDING BABIES!!!!! There’s no need! Absolutely zero benefit and lots of potential harm! Wake up people! Get your heads out of your respective asses; they’re not hats!
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“No buck, kick, or rear ” — until he gets strong enough, savvy enough, and pissed-off enough to try it.
This isn’t the first case of people who enjoy exploiting their charming little baby, until that baby gets big and gets a clue.
He must be a proovin stud, right? {{{{0O}}}}} Whaaaat? (intentional misspelling)
Wow, I waited until my horse was 3 to start him, and 4 before I really rode him. I don’t know what I’m doing.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
A local professional trainer with a roster of affluent clients and full AQHA show schedule had a horse she “couldn’t do anything with” because “he’s crazy” because “he wasn’t started till he was 4.”
I dunno, but the whole tied-down head + spur stop thing might’ve been messing with his mind, is what I think.
I thought this needed repeating:
STOP RIDING BABIES!!!!! There’s no need! Absolutely zero benefit and lots of potential harm! Wake up people! Get your heads out of your respective asses; they’re not hats!
I couldn’t have said it better myself!
And than people wonder why they have a pissed off, useless horse in 5 years. People who think it’s acceptable to ride a BABY need to banned from owning any horse (preferably any living animal) as common sense isn’t there. Would you expect your five year old child to haul around a heavy backpack? Of course not! It’ll cause your child to have back issues. Same thing applies here. Riding a BABY = asshat. I’m just surprised they didn’t try and get someone to pay 5k for their spucial baby that’s unregistered. Maybe they’ve realized that they’ve began to harm the baby and that’s why they only want $88? And hopefully someone gelds the poor thing as well. I also wouldn’t be surprised if he got out and started to breed with anything he could get.
Wow, my barn bred a lipizzan foal and did nothing but ground work until he was five! He got plenty of time to make sure his bones were good and strong. And by that time he had manners drilled into him and he is the sweetest thing on four legs. He was supposed to be the next stud, but he stopped growing at 14.3hh, and since no one is in the miniature lipizzan market, he was gelded. Also, lipizzans make fantastic jumpers, who knew?
Can I just say… OH MY GOD, I WANT A MINI LIPIZANN! *cuddles*
Not that I can afford a horse, period, let alone a lipizann, but still…
I’m not sure how you put images up on SR, but here he is as of a few months ago:
http://i50.tinypic.com/992hdz.jpg
Aww, he is adorable. Such a gentle face ^_^ I want to go give him a hug.
KISS DA NOZ NAO.
*facepalm*
At least she doesn’t have a ridiculous bit in his mouth?
the reason she has her spurs on is, her sisters baby daddy put them on for her when she got them for christmas. now he is in jail and they didnt come with instrukshions!!
Lol!
Well, I like the set of his front leg, but it stops there. He could be registered as a pinto, if someone wanted to. Wonder if they have a bill to pay that is $88, so that’s the price they stuck on him. Could make a cute 4-H type youth horse to bop around on. When it costs more to have your colt gelded ( or even a new set of shoes ) than his selling price, there is something wrong with your breeding program.
Yearlings. I just cannot wrap my mind around effectively evaluating yearlings.
Except… if they look like a grown up horse, run away, because they will grow out of it into very interesting proportions.
His neck, his neck looks like they tied him to a donkey to halter break him, like our neighbor would do with his calves. Or else it ties into his chest really badly. Or else he’s just a fugly yearling.
Why are people so hung up on color, still? Like a blue eye is something Soooper Speshul. Hell, if I were a judge at an open show around here, I would hope that all the competitors were wearing different colored tops, because sorrel/white Paints are a dime a dozen.
“Pegasus is a beautiful chestnut stud colt that has the ovaro pattern with a bald face and a blue eye. ”
I hope I’m not the only one who read this as ovary and was looking carefully at the picture trying to figure out how they got ‘ovary pattern’ out of his markings.
Damn… I can’t imagine doing this to a baby. I’ve got a coming 3 yo (she’ll be 3 April 21st), that too me still looks like a baby. I’ve been on her back twice, the first time last August, the second in September, and both times was just letting her feel weight on her. I was on and off in less then 5 minutes and didn’t ask her to do anything other then stand there, and I could feel the confusion in her just from that. Hell, it was last July before I asked her for anything beyond standing tied, leading, and being behaved for trims and shots. Of course, she’s coming 3, I just turned 30, and I’m fully expecting her to be my go to endurance mount when I’m 60, so I can’t afford to push her now. Hopefully, we’ll be good and lucky enough to still be together then.
Get off the poor thing!
Also, stud colt?
Someone pay the $88 and geld him before they decide to keep him, breed him and sell little backyard babies.