John, of the gaitedhorse list, is donating the money from the sale of a horse to Huginn's Fund.
Info on the horse: Pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/dakota.charm/JohnSHorse?authkey=tCofVpEICcs er registered name is Comanche's Mariposa. They call her Posey. MFTHBA reg # is 97-59338, blue papers. Her sire is S.W.C Comanche, and her dam is Bobbin's Beauty by Fancy's Dark Shadow. The person we got her from last year had signed the back of the papers over, and dated it 7/2/06. It appears she had bought her July of 2005 from the breeder. Looks like July is a bad time for this horse. I don;t know MFTHBA rules to know if there is anything else to go with a sale, like a transfer report or paper or anything.. this is all we got. My clients did not bother joining MFTHBA or transferring the FT papers. They intended to register both her and her sister that we bought, with SSHBEA and show them in the SSHBEA SPort Horse competitions. They got the sister reg with SSHBEA alreqdy, but I think SSHBEA asked them for a video of Posey, and are holding her SSHBEA papers in pending. If there is any other paper work necessary for MFTHBA, or if anyone wants to reg her SSHBEA, or if there are late registration fees for MFTHBA or anything ,this cost is the sole repsonsibility of the buyer at this price. We went up there last July to look at her for these clients of mine. They had started buying horses from me April of '06, and ended up buying 8 or so form me, and boarding them all at my place, and paying me to teach their 2 girls, 9 and 12, to ride. Ended up getting Mom and Dad a horse too, and the sister of this horse ended up being the horse for their 16 yr old daughjter who was afraid of horses and had never been on one. The lady had Posey tied out in a roundpen when we got there, but I got her to ride her anyway, and got Shelia too,and the mare has an awesome gait and is very, very light mouthed and responsive to leg aides. Was pretty easy to negotiate the price down on her. I saw her siater in the pasture, asked about her, and ended uo buying her too. She is a 8 yr old mare, about 15.3 hds, and acts like a 20 yr old dead broke, rope horse gelding. I bought her and Posey too. I knew Posey would not make a good horse for the clients, but I wanted her to try to make a SSHBEA SPort Horse out of her. I like(d) a little p! $$ and vinegar in mine :) Got her home, and she was a basket case after the 1 and 1/2 hour drive. I put them in 2 adjoining stalls.....bad mistake. Posey remodled my barn into one big foaling stall in a matter of seconds. Got her out and put her in the roundpen, and she started climbing the panels like a coon dog climbing a tree. Put her sister in there with her and everything was hunky dory. Had the farier out the next day.The previuos owner professed to be one of those barefoot people, but these horses obviuosly had not had hoof care in years. Both did suurprisiungly well for the farrier. We did leave the other one tied next to Posey as she was shod, though. It has taken the whole year, but we finally have their feet on the road to recovery. New clients came out to see the horses, and I told them they could buy the other horse,but they didnt need Posey right now. I told them I wanted to work with her a while before we did anythng with her. They had a fit over looks though, and wanted to pay me for her and pay me to train her, since she was baorded here anyhow. I got the vet out the next day.( Well.July 10th) The woman who owned them did not have shot records nor up to date Goggins on them. After we got that squared away, I saddled her up and we went to the round pen to ride. When I would ride her along the pen away form the other horse, she wanted to rear up and run back. We had a come to Jesus meeting , and she dont do that with me no more.. Or didnt. I broke my back in 2 places and my arm the last week in July last year. ( A gaited mule, not Posey). Naturally, I could not work with horses anymore. New owners bought a farm close to mine, and moved all 12 ( by now) of their horeses out there. The girls tried to ride her over there, with out me around, and made the mistake of riding her away form another horse... turning her to where she couldt see them.She popped up in the fornt end with them, and ran back,and that was the last time they rode her. I had started a cutting horse colt we raised in June last year, a nice 4 yr old by the last breeding AQHA son of Mr Gunsmoke. A trainer friend of mine, , that along with his son, trains some of the finest roping and cutting horse in Georgia, took him to ride him a few months for me to help me out. I try to send him some business, , so I talked the new owners into sending Posey to him. They rode the snot out of her, and used her to go on trailrides with the young cow horses they were training. Posey will go through or over anything you point her at, so she was great at water crosiings, etc. The son rode her on these rides, and would pack a 22 or 410 and shoot squirrles on the ride. SHe wpund never bat an eye and he would pack them home in her saddle bags. So, my friend took them her back to the owners, and the man decided he would ride her and show her how to mind. She reared up with him, and he got off and cold cocked her a good one on the jaw with his fist. This was around December last year. The put her in the psture and have not fooled with her since. They gave $3500 for the horse. I think I even gave $2500 when I bought her to sell to them. He told me two weeks ago he was going on a Hawaii cruise, and that he wanted to sell off 4-5 of the horses. I sold the others rather quickly, but I told him he would never get his money back on her, unless he spent $800 a month on me to train her a few months, or even if he got a less expensive trainer, he would have to spend more to sell her. He said he wasn't throwing good money after bad, and to just sell her for $1000 if I had to, but take her to the sale before he gets back. She might not bring %1000, I dunno, at the sale,but I can just show him the receipt. However, he owes me money for looking after his place ( I charge him so much a month to go by and check on the horses, order feed, vet ,and farrier, etc) Next Monday he will owe me $400 for two weeks over -seeing. So, I want whoever gets her to send me $600 and Raven the rest. I will make up the rest of his $1000 out of my pocket. Start the bidding at $600. Raises will be in no less than $5 increments. Whoever has top bid at the midnight Sunday night gets her. I gues someone will have to cross post the bids between this list and NAturalTHWs. We worm every 8 weeks, rotating wormers, and she was worned the 1st of July. We got her a full slate of vaccinations last year when we got her, and booster s for the ones that are semi-annual, like 7 way and West Nile. Her Coggins will expire the 10th. Sucessfull bidder will have to pay for that if they want one, or a health certificate. Vet charges 420 for each, and $35 for a farm call. so that is $75 tops. If I have her pout for anything else soon, we will not have to add the farm call in there. I wil keep her for 10 days after the auction ends, and keep working with her some. She seems to be as content with me as she is with another horse for some reason. A child can lead her with sewing thread if another horse is with them. Get out of site of the other horse, and she becomes a snorting ,sqealing, rearing, blowing idiot that no barn or fence known to man can hold. She is afraid of men more than women for some reason, ecxcept me, and responds well to a woman baby talking and cooing at her.I do not do such foolishness myslef. I make her life miserable when she does wrong, and nice qnd easy when she does good, and she responds well to me using that tactic. If I had not broke my back, she would have a home here. She has the potential to be a champion at the cattle and timed events, and possibly jumping. She is too high strung to live long going from sale to sale. I have been don ghtis a long time, and her next home will be her last chance. I can tell. She just needs someone who has the time, preferably someone with no other horses, and the know- how to work with making her submit to them as alpha. I cant do that for you.. you have to do that yourself. Oh,and she WILL be the top mare in the pasture, I dont care if you raise Clydes. John
