Steady Eddie

Jessey

Jessey

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So Ed should arrive on Saturday morning, He is coming to be backed and ridden away and to give me a project while Jess is off work (I get itchy feet with nothing to do/ride), his owners tell me they call him Steady Eddie as he is super chilled out, but we shall see, this will be his first time leaving his family group. He is a 6 year old Appaloosa, his sire and dam were bred in Canada and he was brought in to the UK in utero along with aunts and uncles and has lived in his stable herd of 13 ever since. His owners think he is about 14.3 and is intended eventually for their young son who hasn't quite grown into him yet.

I figured a little diary for his time with me might be good :) and I'm a little excited to have something to tinker with and teach the ropes, he will be worked predominantly on western principles as what little boy doesn't want to be a cowboy! :D but really basic English and western is the same other than when you get to popping jumps or roping, hopefully he will do both but we shall see what he is like about it all. My plan is to start out bitless and treeless, I prefer starting them in a side-pull regardless and apparently he's a bit porky at the moment so the treeless seems the easy option there, eventually he will spend some time in a snaffle and western saddle just so he has done it before his young jockey wants him to.

Meet Ed :D
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Typical appy, no mane and no tail :( oh well at least I won't have to worry about brushing it ;)
 
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I'm actually not a lover of appy's, when I agreed to have him his owner said "I never thought I would see YOU on an appy!", she knows me too well :D but needs must
 
He arrived :D he's changed a bit since the other pic was taken. We had lots of squealing and striking when he met hank over the fence, jess was down in the bottom paddock and had a hissy fit and kept calling hank back to her but settled pretty quickly. He's quite unsettled by it all but not screaming and galloping, just looking and trotting round his paddock, I went back about 8 and he'd settled to eat his hay. I think once he gets into the routine of it all he will be pretty chilled out. Going to try some basic ground work tomorrow if he seems settled enough.
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Awww bless him, he must be thinking 'what the hell. where's everyone gone' I'm sure he'll soon settle down and he does look lovely :)
 
I think a few days of ground work will really help Ed, he lead ok on the right but crowds on the left and Whoa means sometime in the next 10 minutes aparently ;) but he's generally pretty quiet. Back up is fair but again when he feels like it :rolleyes: typical young man who's lived in a herd and not had huge ammounts of structure in his life. Boot camp has begun :)
Feet were unruly so have trimmed them a little as my farrier is off the grid for a week now, will get him to do a proper job when hes back as there is def more length to come off and more balance to establish. Hopefully what ive done will have made him a little more comfortable in the mean time, he wasnt going to make it as easy as I need to do more tho, it takes me a while :)
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Impressive work. I can't imagine trying to trim. I can't even tidy up manes and tails let alone hooves.
 
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