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Xan, this is a TB, which I know you don't want. I'm putting it up anyway just in case. Looks like he has the scope and bravery for you and in your price range. I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt you are going to find any warmblood crosses to meet your requirements in age/price/ability unless you go real...

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Welcome!

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WOW - very cute!!!!!

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Josette wrote:Have you seen this site? Check out the 2 in Eugene OR - I don't know your travel / shipping preference.

http://sporthorsenation.eventingnation. ... me_paged=7

Nice. Emailing now

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Yes and I have emailed them and called twice too - no response at all!

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Nice mover! There is indeed probably a v good reason she hasn’t done a prelim event since 2015. Video I saw of a T level cc didn’t have enough gallop, and mare is listed elsewhere at 15.2 anyway so 2-3 inches short for me

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kande50 wrote:We have lots of grass from May through Nov, and we like haying so put up way too much hay. I can even use hay for bedding for the harder keepers because it's more cost effective than buying shavings.

You live in a magical, wonderful dream place...

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It also easily can add 100-200 in extra concentrates a month. So no. No thanks Hard keepers usually are more emotional and high stress horses, either by situation or temperament. Prone to ulcers and cribbing (generally) yeah I did the math once comparing my last two TBs - one a little porker, baref...

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Ah very cool. My horse is now lame so I'm looking for a place for lessons too! I'm going to try Branscomb Farm in Half Moon Bay...

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Depends on your weather: Here in the west we get no rain March to October, and feeding a hard keeper on no grass is hell. Especially as a boarder - driving out to give extra feeds, hanging around for hours, huge feed bills... ugh!

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yes please. on both

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I want a TB x WB, a ight bodied WB, an ISH, and maybe an Anglo Arab, arab x WB or similar.

End of the day: light on their feet, very scopy jumper, forward and smart.

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I did bit more research: https://polishforums.com/food/golumpkis-golabkis-51933/

"ł" is read like English "w"
"ą" is read like "om"

and for one vs multiple of them:

GO£ĄBKI: pronunciation roughly -- goWUMPkee
GO£UMBKI: dialectal pronunciation -- goWOOMPkee

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Tsavo I know it happens, but I do feel like they're the exception that proves the rule though, eh? They've been bred for hundreds of years to pull, and be "cold blooded" by nature. Even a cross has 50% or so of that genetics. Otherwise they'd dominate at the Olympics, right?

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scruffy the cat wrote:Ugh. I have PTSD. There are no sound horses. I'm going to crawl back under my rock.

Ugh. Me too! Horse shopping sucks! I can’t believe how many awful experiences I have had and tears shed. Why can’t I just like tennis or something?

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The Polish spelling is “Gołąbki“ and that “L” with a line thru it is a “w” sound. My Polish boyfriend from forever ago pronounced it “GuWOMP-ke” but that’s all I’ve got!

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Also I emailed Doug Payne!

scruffy $30k for that OTTB? She doesn’t want to sell it. She wants to syndicate!

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I would look at a TB that never trained for the track and wasn’t started before 3, yes. Budget: I’d like to stay under $20k, esp if I have to travel to see. I could stretch to $30k for a unicorn but it’d have be going Training, a stunning jump, the heart of a lion and gaits of a supermodel! Min I ho...

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Pay extra for: Sound barefoot Super easy keeper Reluctantly buy of all else amazing, with one of the following only: Fancy shoeing package Hard keeper Difficult in hand (hard to bathe, shoe, trailer, pushy) Bucks a little or bites Ulcers suspected Missing eye Has to live in a stall for some reason W...

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That's great.... but I do not want an OTTB. I have had two, and been around many more. I am done with horses that come off the track broken, with exotic shoeing needs, and very hard keepers. Done. Recap of needs :) 16-17h 3-8 years. No OTTBs. No draft crosses. Prelim capable. Brave, smart. easy keep...

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Yes she does have some lovelies! I can't locate prices or ads though so that, and another thing I found, give me pause about this seller.

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scruffy the cat wrote:...Also, have you looked at the OTTBs...

No OTTBs. Been there. T shirt etc.

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StraightForward wrote:If you're considering something unbroke, I had my eye on this 2-yo Cleveland Bay over in Oregon. Only $6,500.

Nothing under 3. Don’t fancy her canter. Do like the Cleveland Bay aspect, and the motor!

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Also, have you looked at Brit Vegas Gengenbach's horses? I do not know her, but she seems to have a good eye and choose good horses from the track. She's in Nebraska, so closer than Delaware or other East Coast horses. She's on FB for fun video stalking. ;-) Here's one video: https://www.youtube.co...

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Too cute! Also too short - looking for at least 16, prefer 16.1-3

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khall that's a very nice horse for a draft cross! I'm guessing draft x QH with that color? The thing is, can it jump around a Prelim xc course one day, 3’7” to 3’9” show jumps at home, 520 mpm and 30 obstacles at 3'7" on xc. That's often not doable for a drafty, and it's be a few years before I...

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Didn’t make it to Dublin. I do wish someone would just send me a horse though - any horse! Shopping makes me mental :/

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WAITING FOR U. HURRY.

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ALREADY IN DUBLIN.

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scruffy the cat wrote:Next week. PACK YOUR BAGS.

THEY ARE PACKED.

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Group trip! When do we leave???!!!

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Oh jeez - she needs a dressage horse while likes to hack out and is husband safe? How about she takes my 17.1 Negro gelding who got firsts at his two first dressage shows but will never go prelim eventing? Downside: shivers. Upside: very cute, black and handsome.

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oops - fixed it: sorry!

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Have you considered an off breed? My present horse would have been 2-3 times more expensive with his show record had he been a WB. I have! I tried to get video on a Welsh x TB in Langley BC but the seller vanished. I'd be totally into a Morgan x TB or an anglo arab, an Arab x of any kid if it had t...

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Just to round this off, eventually Loony Tunes Seller asked me if I would lease the horses off her, break them for her, then return them so she could use them in her Christian Missionary. I kid you not. :shock: Since then I have been looking for a jumper and discovering that I am gonna be out $35k f...

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Oh cool! Where are you jumping? I wish I could find someone to sell me a nice jumper (without it being both arms and legs...)

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The rest of the time he just hit my hand and LEANED down. Does he need a correction when he hits the hand? I mean, that itself should be a correction, right? But it obviously doesn't bother him. And I don't want to be yanking his face about, but the lean is RUDE. So I just rode someone's horse the ...

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kande , he used to halt when I clicked, looking for a treat, but I worked that out of him as obviously that's not OK. And I definitely click and reward a good halt - actually had quite a few really great ones last night! So, we do have progress - I'm just not sure how to reliably get a great halt f...

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I'm mildly worried he'll figure out how to open the back door of the trailer while I'm driving... he also unties himself from the tie rail, but doesn't go anywhere... yet!

And yet, he cannot halt from the walk.

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I can see the salacious bumper sticker now" "Clicker Trainers Get It on Cue"

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Horse: Baby Bronto Age: 6 Goals: Build strength in canter (am timing canter work every ride, trying to build up to 10 mins). Pick up correct leads. Be STRAIGHT! Create an active, marching walk. Improve walk-halt trans. Baby Bronto had 5 days off with a suspected stone bruise. I got on last night for...

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Oh gosh, the horse and now the dog? Poor you

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Hm, I could have entered 1st level at the last show and came 2nd out of 2. And come to think I could have been 1st out of 0 at 2nd, 3rd or even 4th!

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OK, show number three. Different venue, different judge. Still schooling tho. Judge loooooved him. Who doesn't love a giant baby whale blubbering around? :lol: 68% TL2 2nd place. 66% TL3 but DQ'd because of THREE errors of course - WITH a reader! :lol: 1: my fault - didn't read the test 2 and 3: I a...

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I go to shows at Seven Oaks. I have not taken lessons with them, but at shows they're very friendly and nice. At least one of the trainers there trained with my trainer back in the day, and she is super classical, so there's that... I'd take a lesson with them, if I was closer!

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I would just like to have a trainer at all right now... There is no dressage or jumping trainer where I board. And I board there because my shivers/PSSM horse gets 24/7 turnout there - very hard to find here. My trainer for the last year came to us - she's great but: 1. won't come for less than 3 pe...

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I spent all last winter with one horse's legs wrapped due to scratches. i thought it would never end, and I'm gonna share what I tried and DIDN'T help, and what did help, for posterity. Did not work: Alushield - no chance MTG - no help, and I smelled like hell-bacon. Corona ointment - no help, and i...

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Totally gorgeous! No more babies for me tho - learned that lesson, sadly

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Bip wrote:Tell her you will send a cashier’s check for $2000 over asking price and she just needs to give you the change.

BAHAHAHAHAH!

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Hm, I don't think it's a bad thing to do per se - sometimes he backs pretty normally, sometimes he gets stuck or shivers a bit. For a second. Then he's normal. With the assumption that he's weak due also to being young and huge, I don't see harm in it, and the shivers experts I have spoken to say &q...

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