I have been offered to take two horses. One a registered Arabian gelding and a un registered large boned QH gelding.

I found out by accident when my boyfriend told me that he had seen his friend about a week ago and they had gotten to talking and apparently that friend's mother wanted to give us the horses. Well Ky talked to her and she said that she hasn't had time for them and now that her daughter went off to college no one would be using them. They hadn't been ridden in two years and when they were it wasn't very much. She wanted me to tune up Marshall last year but nothing ever came of it. Now she wants me to take them.

The Arabian is a chestnut color and he is the older of them both. He was bred in WI and shown a lot. Apparently he used to be a national champion. Of what I have yet to find out. I guess from what I have heard he bows, kneels and does the show halter posing. He is trained to ride and does so very well even when he needs a tune up. He is the quieter of them both and great for teaching people how to ride on. This is just what I am looking for. When I go to pick them up the family will be giving me all his paper work and the magazines he was featured in which I think is pretty cool.

The second horse I think I'm going to have loads of fun with.
His name is Marshall and he is a big boned tall QH looking animal. He is from what I remember a dark brown or dark bay and he is a spirited fellow. He is estimated to be somewhere around in his 8th year. He likes to dump his riders and spook. He try's everything he can not to be caught and is just in general a tough horse to get along with and I love him! I can't wait to get this guy into a round pen and see what kind of fun we can have. I think what I'm going to do is get him in the round pen and keep him there for a few days while we try to resolve this issue of getting caught. After that maybe I'll release him into a bigger area and see what happens. However he is going to get some "solitary confinement" so that he doesn't teach my youngsters the runaway bit. He'll be able to see the horses and all that just not be in with them.

I can pick them up when I'm ready so that's nice since I have some pasture reconstruction to do and round pen construction in general.

Ky and I will be making our own hay this year which is awesome! We have 30 acres of grass hay to bale and we have access to his uncle's alfalfa / timothy fields! So we should be set if everything works out!

I'll take some pics of them so all of you can see what they look like. I'll forewarn you though, my BF says they look really really fat!