Heather
2nd Sep 2001, 07:04 PM
I have a beautiful pure bred Arabian gelding, Ali, who I have owned since he was three- he is now 11- and I am looking for a special home for him as a companion. He had a fall at Halsdon Stud, Charlie Watts the drummer of the Rolling Stones, magnificent Arabian stud, when Ali was a very lively two year old colt. He was mucking about trying to get to some mares and reared up, going over backwards. This resulted in him throwing up two bursal enlargements on the inside of his hocks, whih the vets said would not cause any more trouble than a capped hock. So, I bought him from his owners, who had sent him to Halsdon to be gelded and handled better, and we duly backed him the following year.
His movement started to get sort of snatchy behind, a bit like the condition known as stringhalt, and I did wonder whether it would affect his ridden work later on. He was so lihgt to ride, foudn lateral work as easy as falling off a log and woudl have found the very collected work like piaffe and passage equally easy- he would offer piaffe if slightly excited.
A couple of summers ago, he did seem slightly lame, and we gave him the rest of the summer off. I then loaned him to a friend of my yard managers to hack out for 18 months. She did and he stayed sound throughout. She could no longer keep him at the end of that period, and so he came home last Christmas. He remained perfectly sound, until I came to have time to ride him again about six weeks ago, and he was slightly unlevel again.
So, with great regret, I am looking for a home for him as a companion. I think that he will go sound enough to ride again, but really want to find him a home where he will just keep another horse company. He is a very sharp ride and although fine in company, not good on his own. In the field you can hardly see anything wrong with him, and the vet doesn't think that it is likely to get worse, and that he will live to a ripe old age.
He is the sweetest natured horse- a real pet, a good doer and very beautiful, a,nd rudely healthy in every other respect. He was brought over at great expense from Arizona as a six month old foal, as a potential racing stallion- his sire was the top US Arab racehorse, but he proved to be diffcult to handle as a colt ( mostly the fault of the previous owners to be honest) although an absolute poppet once gelded.
I already have two older retired horses and having had six retired all at once for some years which is a drain on resources, feel that if I can find Ali a loving and experienced permanent home, as he really loves to be a pet , it would be the best for him.
Anyone genuinely interested do not hesitate to contact me-
Heather
His movement started to get sort of snatchy behind, a bit like the condition known as stringhalt, and I did wonder whether it would affect his ridden work later on. He was so lihgt to ride, foudn lateral work as easy as falling off a log and woudl have found the very collected work like piaffe and passage equally easy- he would offer piaffe if slightly excited.
A couple of summers ago, he did seem slightly lame, and we gave him the rest of the summer off. I then loaned him to a friend of my yard managers to hack out for 18 months. She did and he stayed sound throughout. She could no longer keep him at the end of that period, and so he came home last Christmas. He remained perfectly sound, until I came to have time to ride him again about six weeks ago, and he was slightly unlevel again.
So, with great regret, I am looking for a home for him as a companion. I think that he will go sound enough to ride again, but really want to find him a home where he will just keep another horse company. He is a very sharp ride and although fine in company, not good on his own. In the field you can hardly see anything wrong with him, and the vet doesn't think that it is likely to get worse, and that he will live to a ripe old age.
He is the sweetest natured horse- a real pet, a good doer and very beautiful, a,nd rudely healthy in every other respect. He was brought over at great expense from Arizona as a six month old foal, as a potential racing stallion- his sire was the top US Arab racehorse, but he proved to be diffcult to handle as a colt ( mostly the fault of the previous owners to be honest) although an absolute poppet once gelded.
I already have two older retired horses and having had six retired all at once for some years which is a drain on resources, feel that if I can find Ali a loving and experienced permanent home, as he really loves to be a pet , it would be the best for him.
Anyone genuinely interested do not hesitate to contact me-
Heather