Well, I put in temperment first and the age and she popped up. If they aren't firm about the price she might be a good fixer upper but I have concerns about her carrying our wt right now. If I could just pasture her it wouldn't be a problem but I really don't want to pay board for something we can't ride right now. That defeats the purpose of the second horse .
I just wanted to let you know she may not have been as bad as I was making her out to be. Too a fault I want pretty:). Mack is constantly reminding me that color and long manes and tails aren't as important as will they kill me or not:). I'm real bad to judge on looks and forget about temprament. Bay horses are my favorite, and I tend to think ALL bay horses are beautiful. So I have to be careful and deliberatly put out of my mind color and look at confirmation.
When I bought Rusty, he was in such bad bad shape. I cannot begin to tell you how bad he looked. And the deal was to trade straight across for a paint horse I had that was drop dead gourgeous but had a problem I was tired of dealing with. But Rusty had bones sticking out all over, bare spots where saddle, cinch, and saddlebags had rubbed down to the skin, his head looked as big a a pump jack and his ears looked as long as a mules. He was wormy so his coat was long and rough. My first thought when I saw him was "you want me to trade my beautiful paint for that, you've got to be kidding". After riding awhile and watching Rusty go, I finally got past the bad and looked to see what the potential was. I was surprised that when I looked at him with that in mind he looked alot better.
When Charlie saw him the first time the next week he told me I had done good:). And IMO, Rusty has surpassed even what I thought would be there with care. He actually grew into his head and ears, something I didn't really think he would. Charlie was actually the only one at first that thought he would come out OK.
Becky