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Originally Posted by Scott Douglas
Do I assume correctly that Cash had been ridden before your wife purchased him?
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Yes, he has been ridden before. He's 14 years old, and supposedly a ranch horse from Texas or Oklahoma. If someone who knows what they're doing, and has a good sense of balance rides him, there's no issues. Here's his sale info -
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Cash 14'3h bay overo gelding.
Super good horse. Rides around quiet for anybody. Handy as a pocket on your shirt. Trail rides great, lopes good circles in the arena and has some expression on a cow. More color than a new box of crayons.
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What the ad didn't tell you.
He's hard to catch. He's getting better, but it still takes my wife about 10 minutes to get a halter on him. I can't catch him, if he sees me with a rope he won't come near me.
He doesn't like closed spaces. When he's in the barn, every noise anywhere freaks him out.
Related to that - he doesn't like cross ties. He will twist and turn, and go forward and back, straining against the ties. He's broken the bailing twine used as a fuse on the ties twice now. One tonight.
He's gotten to the point where he won't eat his grain in the barn either. I may have mentioned above, but the two horses he shares a pasture with come in for the night, so we have to wait for them to come in and then give him his pan in the pasture.
This horse is an incredible time suck. Between the hard to catch, and his dancing around and not eating, it is usually a minimum of 2 hours to deal with him. 2 1/2 if you count drive time. If my wife does ground work with him it is even longer. He gets all sweaty even though the arena isn't heated, and then she puts a cooler on him and waits for him to dry before she puts him back. So 3 - 3 1/2 hours to deal with him. Let's just say there's a lot of stuff around the house that either I end up doing now, or it just doesn't get done. The dogs are used to getting fed at 4:30, and if I go with her, they don't get fed until sometimes after 7:00. They don't like that.
The other owners don't spend nearly the time my wife does. They'll come out, the horses meets them at the gate, they go in the barn, eat their grain, and are right back out in less than 30 minutes. Even the ones that ride are sometimes in and out while we're still waiting for the dancing doofus.