HillsPride

"Hill's Pride" $1500 Lesson Horse Material...calm and sweet disposition and easy going

Riding log at the bottom of this page

8 year old Registered Thoroughbred Gelding Born in May 31, 2000 #0048154

By Last Lion out of Stanhope Iowa

Hills Pride Trotting Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR3VHl3Z6cU

Hills Pride Loping Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEemtC_lKDE

This nice gelding whose dam comes from the bloodlines of the great Seattle Slew does well under saddle and is ready to find a home where he gets lots of love and attention. Stands over 16 hands! Loads well, tacks well, goes through mud and water. Leads or follows. Doesn't mind horses on his tail on the trail. Easy going and fun to ride. Would be great for a pleasure horse or for a 4-H horse for a youth rider that knows the basics. Getting ridden regularly now. Current on shots, coggins, farrier visits, and wormings. Nice walk, trot and canter. Easy to catch in the pasture, gets along well with other horses, has free run of the pasture and the barn and gets free choice coastal hay and grain. Stands tied well, loads, etc. Very nice gelding and would be great in any discipline. Perfect age, and ready to be someones number one. His history as I know it: He raced and then was retired sound and for the last year or so he has been ridden off and on in the arena, on trail, and just for pleasure. He is on our farm now and getting ridden regularly. He is great when you pick up his hooves and he is super calm natured. A lot of commotion can be going on around him, and he stays relaxed and calm. He has not bucked or reared, even with time off he is the same horse when you get back on him. Negatives: Does attach quickly to other horses and prefers not to be left alone, however if he got used to it, that may not be an issue. Email for questions. Thank you. He is priced extremely well for his potential and his wonderful disposition. I believe this horse would be a great 4-H show horse or a trail riding horse. Top photos taken May 17th at a benefit trail ride. HP did great with probably around 100 horses there and he sure loves the trail. Other pictures are taken in the last couple of months, so they are all fairly current. Very bottom photos taken last summer.

Riding Log: I decided I would start keeping a log of HP's rides, so you have an idea what he is up to currently. Wish I had started this a long time ago!

8/28/08 I used HP for a riding lesson for a beginner rider. Started out in the round pen so the girl could get used to him and she walked and trotted for about 15 minutes or so. Then we went out to the big pasture and she worked on circles and then riding squares to make her work a little bit on direction. She did a little bit of trotting and a few circles of loping. After her lesson we went on a trail ride (walking only) and she enjoyed her ride. She had a safe ride as HP didn't do anything wrong with her. However, I did notice him test her now and then, like stopping on occasion if she was not cueing him. He also loped a couple times when she was encouraging him to trot. Probably cued him to lope without knowing it. She thought it was fun though! hehe

8/29/08 Lauren came out and rode him today. Here is an e-mail she sent me about her ride today on HP. "I tired to make him collect more and do some leg yielding. I tried to work on balancing him more at the canter going counter-clockwise (he is better clockwise). I worked on getting him to jump over the biggest little jump out there without knocking the pole down. hee hee. I wore spurs, so maybe that is why he was more responsive than yesterday in the lesson. He didn't seem to be distracted by the other horses or where they were either. The only whinnying he did was a couple of times after we finished working them when we were just walking them around toward the back of the pasture (by the pond) to cool them off, but he did what I asked easily even if he was thinking of the other horses. It was still really hot by the time we finished riding. The horses were super sweaty, so we sprayed them off."