WTF???? 18 months old and KID BROKE?

I found this CL ad today while shopping around for a barrel saddle for my son. Who in their right mind would break an 18 month old colt? I mean yes I realize they start TB's as early as 12 months but come on this is a BYB horse. (I say that b/c this is the same person that Poptart came from.....atleast this pony is somewhat fat) The pics of the pony make him look disproportioned and well like junk. That's something I don't understand, if you are going to post pics of a horse you are trying to sell, why not take some that make the horse look good? All these pics of grazinf horses drives me nuts. You can't tell anything about conformation from a grazing picture. Come on use some sense when posting ads with pictures!!!

And looking at this picture he loks wormy and has funky hips. see this pic does nothing for the pony. I wouldnt even go look at him in person after seeing this pic

http://nashville.craigslist.org/grd/851387942.html

Registered Pinto pony colt--18 moths old--KID BROKE - $500 (Clarksville/Woodlawn)
Reply to: sale-851387942@craigslist.org [?]Date: 2008-09-22, 8:01PM CDT
This guy was born at our house and was imprinted from the minute he hit the ground. His mom was a grey roan 12.2 HH pony ( junk) and his dad is a registered APHA horse (APHA # 691123 Mccain Cool Copy) (hasn't done a thing in the show pen) chestnut and white 14.3 HH. He is currently measuring 44". He can be handled by any child no matter the age and is bombproof.(Yes cause we all know an 18 month old STUD COLT is so very wise to the ways of the world.... wait till he decides he'd liek to see a mare in heat while a kid is handling him, how bomb proof would he be then?) He will not kick or bite and it doesn't matter how young they are. I can send pics of both parents. He is Registered Pinto Horse Assoc. # 132634Y and his registered name is Mccains Copyright Canyon (canyon for short). We have already led our kids around on his back so he is completely used to that (once again such a safe thing for a child to be doing... riding an 18 month old stud colt) and we have hauled him to shows and practices just to get him used to that environment and he loves to go places and acts perfect. He has one blue eye and the other is brown and blue. Can send more pics. Truly kid and bomb proof

Ugh it just kills me. I fwd'd this ad onto Fugly, hope she has fun with it! :)

AGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

Sometimes you just need to scream!!!!!! Rough day dealing with idiots

Holy Shit WTF Is wrong with these people

I can't even begin to describe how angry this makes me. Fugly says it all in the opening line of her blog unfuckingbelievable.

http://fuglyhorseoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/09/memo-to-asshats-were-faster-to-copy.html

I can't believe this my good that poor poor filly! I actually sent Fugly a link to a craigslist ad earlier today where someone had an extensively broke 3 year old. This horse had been started at 14 months and was being ridden in the MOUNTAINS at 18 months (WTF PEOPLE??) and the pic showed a kid about 4 years old on the horse bare back, no reins... nothing AND the kid had NO HELMET. ok lets cripple our horse and kill our kid all at the same time. Now i know this is a constant rant of Fugly's but man it blows my mind to see how many idiots (or to borrow Fugly's term ASSHATS) are out there breaking horses when they are barely 2. I know I know TB's are doen the same way in racing and I dont agree with that either BUT atleast we know they are properly cared for by the trainers..... Sigh once again all I can say id there should be a test required

AGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH I hate LAMENESS

So as my close friends on YA and others know i have apaint mare whom I dearly adore. I have raised her since birth, helped her come into the world actually. Broke her and trained he ron barrels and poles. She's agorgeous lil palomino overo with a bald face , 4 white stockigns and eyes as blue as the colorado skies. GORGEOUS. Well back in march of 2006 by some freak accident, Bailey punctured her deep digital flexor tendon sheath. It became severly infected and we almost lost her. She was on 3 weeks of continous antibiotics and complete stall re4st. She had to ahve compression wraps applied to her leg daily when the wound (which was only the size of the tip of a pen) was cleaned and doctored. Bute off an on... long story short it took 8 months to get this mare back sound and wlaking good again. She started off with just hand walks b/c every tiem we tried to turn her out the injury would flare up again and she'd go lame. I realized in 2007 she's never barrel race again so I bred her to a reg welsh pony to get a sport pony for my kids when they were older. In May of this year she foaled a stunnign stud colt who looks to take after both sire and dam in their athletic ability, btu that is ebsdie the point this blog is about lameness and how I hate it with a passion. Now I understand most everyone hates lameness issues but I'm just so sick of it with this mare I could scream. Just like a person with artheritis she has good days and bad days. Today is one of her bad days. my horses are kept at my parents house just down the Rd from me and first thing yesterday morning I get a call form Dad. "Better get over here asap, your mare's lame AGAIN" I have to wait about an hour before I can ge there because I'm at work and can't leave.... Noon arrives and i book it for my parents house... I get there and Bailey and her colt are standing just outside the barn in the hot sun... move inside dummy... well when I got to her I saw why she hadn't moved into the barn, her leg was swollen from the cornet to knee and she could barely hobble around on it. She didn't want to go in b/c it hurt to walk. I halter her and lead her into her stall and begin my examination . it's that flexor tendon injury flaring up... DAMMIT she hadn't had a lame day in months and now all of a sudden she's dead lame... grrrrrrrrr. So I walk into my tack room to get my DMSO , Cool jelly anythign I have on hand to alieveate the swelling.... nothing is in there. My DMSO gel is empty (I've used it all on her and our old pony mare) , my cool green jelly is MIA... no problem I'll just do a compression wrap... but wait... where are my no bow pillows??? AND my polo wraps??? They too are MIA (looks liek I'll be grabbing some stuff at work monday) CRAP CRAP CRAP. I fish around and FINALLY find a little bit of Liquid DMSO. By the tiem I find it my poor mare has been stanind tied for half an hour and she's begining to look a lil pissed at me. So I talk to her open the DMSO and begin to pour it down her leg and rub in.... now i've done it, I've really pissed her off now. The DMSO is obviously "burning" her b/c she starts shifting around and trying to get out of the crossties. I'm tryign to talk to her and calm her down as she eyebals me with one of her big blues in complete disdain for whatever I am telling her. Sigh poor Bailey I know I know but hinestly I'm tryign to help. As I'm rubbing her leg Soco (the colt) decided he wants to investigate my tack toom..... next thing I know I hear thudding and a big crash, I jump up and lok and Soco has knocked a bunch of stuff over... he also found my jar of cool green jelly :) Anyway I usher him out and get bacl to trying to help my mare. There's not much I can do at this point so I put her in her stall with the baby , feed her a lil grain and bute and tell the parents just keep an eye on her while I'm not here. I get there this morning and she's outside (and her leg is even more swollen.. DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT. It's Sunday , my vet is out of town... what to do??? I call the Vet that works closely with my company and ask his advice... basically the same thing I have been doing is his reply. If it continues to look worse or there is no change in swelling then I need to bring her in. YAY ( that is dripping with sarcasim for those who dotn know me) I'm at a loss. I had hoped we had the lameness issue beat... ugh guess i was wrong. Looks like my lil mare will probably never be sound enough to even really ride again....

For The Love Of God... Parents Educate Your Children!!

So as you may ahve noticed I haven't written a blog in about a week, it's because I have been at the TSSCA (TN State Saddle Club Assoc. ) State Championship Show. Now I've been to this show pretty consistently since 1998 ( granted I had a 4 year hiatus when I had kids.) This year was my first year back to state for the entire weekend since children came along and boy I never knew how ignorant some of the parents and kids who show in this are. Now don't get me wrong there are some damn good lil 12 and under riders out there who know how to properly handle a pony and wear protective gear and do right by there ponies. This year (I suppose since it was my first year in attendance as a parent) I noticed a disturbing amount of kids who had no clue as to the danger they put themselves in. I'm standing up by the arena on Nick nack when I glance to my right and see this little boy on a pony just whipping the shit out the pony and jerking it's reins. This was freaking the pony out hyping him up. Now I can understand maybe getting the pony a lil hyper and ready to run but you don't do that by whipping him till he's ready to jump out of his skin and then jerking the reins until his mouth is foaming and raw. Take him out to the warm up area and trot him in circles short lope him a bit, do something to loosen him up and get his adrenaline flowing but don't basically beat the pony! Needless to say this pony when it came time for him to run was so wired he reared up going in the gate, snatched and jerked around and when the boy finally got him in and headed for the pattern the pony was so rank he veered off course dumped the boy and ran out the gate. The boy didn't have on a helmet but fortunately was fine. the more I watched the more horrified I became . Parents were blatantly ignoring the pony abuse, cussing the kids if they messed a run up or they were beating the ponies themselves. Now this wasn't the case with ALL the ponies and 12 - under riders BUT I did see it alot. Most all the ponies who were jerked on and whipped before their run did horribly. The ones who were properly warmed up and LOVED by their tiny riders did AWESOME and placed.





Now what I'm wondering is 1) how come I never noticed this as I was an active competitor and 2) HOW can a parent allow their child to do that to something clearly bigger than they are? I mean I had a horse that if you so much as jerked her reins in repremand she would fight back. All it takes is one rank pony and one of those kids could be killed. Parents PLEASE PLEASE eductae your children on the proper way to handle a pony, eductae yourselves if your not sure before turning a kid loose on a barrel pony. Some of those lil snots are hard to handle depsite their size. This furthers my belief that riding lessons should be mandatory for ALL who want to ride. I mean honestly in ALL the years I took lessons I NEVER saw an instructor tell us to jerk that pony's mouth or whip him to make him hyper before going into the ring. When I was in 13-17 I had a horse that LOVED to run barrels and he would get himself hyper and ready to run. All I had to do was short lope in small circles about 10 riders before our turn and man he'd go in there like a bullet. Same with the mare I rode after Deal died, short lope some circles before our ride and man she was ready. They both also got loads of love and praise when we ran a clean pattern and even if we DQ'd I'd praise them b/c it wasn't their fault that a barrel went down, it was rider error, meaning it was MY fault. This past weekend a girl pulled her pony into the barrel causing him to shoulder it and knock it down. It was obvious this pony really didn't need the guidance, he would have been fine and run beautiful pattern has the girl not gotten into his mouth. As soon as the pony cleared the ring, her daddy took her off the pony and began whipping him and jerking his head around pulling him in tight circles.... yeah that's a GREAT way to correct the problem idiot. All that is going to do is cause the pony to shoulder the barrel any time pressure is put on his lil mouth.... moron. If you want the pony to run right teach your daughter to ride correctly, better yet instead of your tutoring on the subject , which is all she's obviously had, get her some lessons given by a PROFESSIONAL. I've got some great video of it too. I just have to figure out how to get the video off the camera and onto the computer.... my stupid comp isn't compatible with the camera... go figure. Anyway that's all for my rant about state show... at the moment. I'm sure I'll think something else up.