Horse Available for Adoption

Santa Rosa CA

Description

Ride Off Animal Rescue’s “Penny” is ready for her forever home! Foaled 1/24/09 (12 years), mare, 16 hands (rider in video is 5’11”), raced a handful of times. JC name “Good Mango”. Located in Santa Rosa CA at Ride Off Ranch. In the name of transparency, we will be laying out every single thing we know about her, both positive and negative. Please contact us only if you’ve read through the entire ad. (Yes, it’s long.) Penny is BEAUTIFUL, extremely eye catching, and learns quickly. She requires an experienced rider, or an intermediate rider working full time with a trainer. We will not adopt her to a beginner home; it’s very obvious she will never be a beginner’s horse no matter how trained she is. She will go into a dressage frame and is working on basic flat work, however she finds flat work boring and LOVES to jump. If we need her to chill out and concentrate, we put a jump in front of her and the flat work magically improves for the day. That being said - she has a pretty good spook and needs lots of confident encouragement from her rider if there are distractions (ahem, cattle) or if she’s worried about the jump itself. Her right lead is better than her left, but in only a few short months she has improved immensely. When she bonds to a rider or handler she tries her heart out. With consistent training and with her new owner taking the time to build the bond, she could go into the upper levels of eventing, jumping, or possibly even the hunter or dressage ring (if she calms the heck down 😉). Conformation is immaculate - she’s gracefully put together. Has a nice shoulder and a great booty. She does get hock sores from time to time but deeper bedding fixes that. She also has an old quarter crack on a front hoof that is growing out well, has normal shoes all around, and even with jumping it hasn’t been an issue. She is a MARE, and although she is bay she may as well be a chestnut. Very spicy at times. She will kick the fence if she doesn’t approve of her neighbor and she will kick any horse that comes near. Her hind legs are her weapons and she knows it. Might wanna put a red ribbon in her tail at shows. She does stand for the farrier but requires an alert person at her head so the farrier can work. She has pulled back from being tied so we only tie her to twine, but she hasn’t pulled back in about 5 months. Haven’t tried cross tieing her. She’s been treated for ulcers, wormed, and up to date on vaccines. Unsure about teeth but willing to take the cost off if your vet recommends them being done in the next 6 months. She’s on a flake of alfalfa and 4 flakes of orchard grass per day. A grain bucket once a day with a bit of amplify, rice bran, and senior. Fairly easy keeper and likes her rations. Still reading?! Great!! Adoption is mid four figures (see video) but will consider offers from the perfect home. Keep in mind that this will go directly into our rescue fund to help future rescue horses. We also keep track of our horses for life, and if she was ever to be rehomed again ROAR must be contacted first per our contract. Please see the video on our Facebook page: https://fb.watch/5ddfr65mjd/