DREAMER
Poco
Gunner
Desert Star
Back to the Farm
Before Nichole could ride, we decided to get a pony for her. We wanted an animal that was smaller then a full size horse but larger then a kids pony. Enter Nite Mare! Through word of mouth I found her at a farm not too far from us. She was a beautiful buckskin 3 year old, no papers and of uncertain breeding, but the one requirement we were looking for the most , she had:
She was big enough for us to ride , too!
Before I put my kid on any horse, big or small, I wanted to be able to put time on that animal myself. I wanted to expose it to everything I could and "Bomb Proof" it as much as possible. At "Maresys" young age, I figured that I would have more then enough time to work with her while my child grew up. Then, if Nichole wanted to ride, she would have a horse that we were familiar with and ( hopefully) trusted. The good thing about Mare was, she was cheap. The reason why? She wasn't even broke to halter! And she had a scar circling her hoof just above the coronet band. Some time before, the Farmer said, she had got it caught in a fence and tore it up. The injury was cosmetic only, and she has always been sound.
It has been 3 years now, and Mare is a great little horse. Nichole still rides Dreamer, but in a few years I expect that she will want to start riding her horse.
Nite Mare stands 13 hands high, and is part Quarterhorse and part Hackney Pony. She has the beautiful Hackney carriage gate, or "Flying" trot, and if I ever get a buggy, I am sure to train her to drive. Since Mare was unregistered, or a "Grade" horse, I found two places to register her with. As a registered animal, she is more valuable, and if anything should ever happen to us, I would never want to see her go to "The Killers", people who buy cheap horses for slaughter. Nearly half a million horses are sent to slaughter each year, with $80 million dollars of horsemeat being purchased by Europe and Asia for human consumption. The animals have no legislation that provides humane handling for shipping to slaughter, and many are abused or injured in transport. A 15% death during transport rate is acceptable by the transport companies. Not ever wanting this to happen to a companion animal of mine, I registered her with "The American Quarter Pony Association", based on her confirmation, and the "American Buckskin Registry Association", based on her beautiful buckskin color.
Maresy also has another great quality, she throws a beautiful baby!
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