- Zangersheide
- Bay
- Mare
- 6 years
- 16.3 hands
- 2x second place results at hickstead this month
- Super brave
- Super safe, would suit riding school
Lena – the safest horse you’ll ever meet (with resting mare face)
Meet Lena: proof that you can have talent, brains and a sense of humour… even if you do pull faces in the stable.
Lena has 2x second placings at Hickstead this summer, schools to 1.10m at home, has an exceptional jump, and is the sort of horse you could trust with your granny on the buckle.
On Christmas Day, we hacked her out while another horse had a full emotional breakdown throwing shapes left, right and centre. Lena? She poodled along at the back, completely unbothered, living her best life.
In the school she is safe, sensible and straightforward, at shows she is cool as a cucumber, and she is never phased by big atmospheres. She is proving very brave cross-country, is happy hacking alone or in company, and takes everything in her stride. Take her away from other horses? Fine. Leave her behind? Also fine. Turned out alone or with mares or geldings? No drama.
The catch?
She is… marish in the stable. By which we mean she pulls faces and puts her ears back. That’s it. Has not kicked or bitten us, no nonsense — just a lot of “how dare you come into my room” expressions. We simply tell her to get over herself and crack on.
Once she’s out of the stable? Absolute angel. In the wash bay she’s a sweetheart, at shows she’s impeccable, and tacking up in the lorry she’s good as gold. Honestly, we now find the faces quite amusing and consider it part of her personality.
Because of her resting mare face, her price has been reduced to 6500, which is frankly ridiculous for a horse with her ability, record and temperament under saddle. If you can laugh at an ear-back moment and see past it (as we have), you’ll get yourself a seriously lovely horse.
Would suit:
• Happy hacker
• Low-level allrounder
• Someone wanting a safe, talented horse to produce a bit more
Lena is kind, genuine and very, very easy — just don’t expect her to smile in her stable. She’s too busy saving that energy for looking after her rider.
Based East Sussex
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