Post by timotrec on Sept 26, 2008 22:42:00 GMT
Rusheen Diamond, our beautiful bay 4 year old gelding, is looking for a natural horsemanship home where he will be loved and respected and given the scope to realise his potential as an eventer, or a SJ or dressage prospect. Or even, where he will simply be loved for who he is and hacked out by a rider who needs a horse to give her/him confidence.
Diamond was born at our trekking centre in June 2004. His Sire is 'Diamond Mine' and his Dam, Rusheen Mor, is reputedly by 'Robertstown Boy'.
He has been handled since birth, taught to respect human space, to lead, to load, to do basic groundwork exercises etc. Last year we started free-schooling him over jumps.
My 16 year old daughter backed him this summer. He goes naturally in an outline and has beautiful dressage paces. He can leg yield, turn on the forehand etc (thanks, Elaine, for the ground-work exercises!) She is also jumping him over 1 metre fences at home. I took him to a show-jumping session with our local trainer and he didn't bat an eyelid at being asked to jump a course of spooky fences. The only thing that bothered him slightly was the garden gnome perched on the gateway to the arena.
He is a brave and honest horse and very sensible. I led a five hour trek on him and he had no problems with traffic, cattle, man-hole covers, flapping plastic or any of the other things that less confident horses might find alarming. Which reminds me, he is an absolute gentleman, and very clever at positioning himself, when it comes to opening and closing gates mounted, and also when it comes to mounting up from either a block or from the ground.
We love him very dearly and, while he undoubtedly has the ability to teach all sorts of people how to ride at our trekking centre, we think he has the potential to go a lot further and to reward a caring owner with a lot of fun and a sense of achievement competing in the various disciplines.
I apologise for the poor quality of the photos - they were taken on my mobile phone.
Price: €5,500
If you would like more information or to come and see him, please contact me on info@timotrec.com or post a reply to this thread.
Diamond was born at our trekking centre in June 2004. His Sire is 'Diamond Mine' and his Dam, Rusheen Mor, is reputedly by 'Robertstown Boy'.
He has been handled since birth, taught to respect human space, to lead, to load, to do basic groundwork exercises etc. Last year we started free-schooling him over jumps.
My 16 year old daughter backed him this summer. He goes naturally in an outline and has beautiful dressage paces. He can leg yield, turn on the forehand etc (thanks, Elaine, for the ground-work exercises!) She is also jumping him over 1 metre fences at home. I took him to a show-jumping session with our local trainer and he didn't bat an eyelid at being asked to jump a course of spooky fences. The only thing that bothered him slightly was the garden gnome perched on the gateway to the arena.
He is a brave and honest horse and very sensible. I led a five hour trek on him and he had no problems with traffic, cattle, man-hole covers, flapping plastic or any of the other things that less confident horses might find alarming. Which reminds me, he is an absolute gentleman, and very clever at positioning himself, when it comes to opening and closing gates mounted, and also when it comes to mounting up from either a block or from the ground.
We love him very dearly and, while he undoubtedly has the ability to teach all sorts of people how to ride at our trekking centre, we think he has the potential to go a lot further and to reward a caring owner with a lot of fun and a sense of achievement competing in the various disciplines.
I apologise for the poor quality of the photos - they were taken on my mobile phone.
Price: €5,500
If you would like more information or to come and see him, please contact me on info@timotrec.com or post a reply to this thread.