- Irish Sports Pony
- Bay
- Mare
- 16 years
- 12.2hh / 127cm
- School Master
- First Pony & First Competition Pony all in one
- A proper school master & has done a bit of everything
* Price Reduced to find the perfect home - it’s been so much harder than we thought. We really do want her to find a perfect home where she will be loved & treated as she is here with us.
Super Suzie as we call her, is just that, an absolute Super Star. If it wasn’t for Suzie I think we might have given up.
Suzie is a competition pony, however she is versatile & can be many different ponies for you. With a rider who knows what they are doing, she can feel this & she’s buzzy & ready to go. But when we’ve popped my 4 year old son on, she’s a donkey. Including taking him around the full 7 miles at Somerford, totally off lead by himself. How many ponies can you trust with a 4 year old in a sand school, let alone in open spaces? Then how many competition ponies will do this? She’s really incredible & we can’t speak more highly of her.
Suzie is a proper school master & has done a bit of everything:
* SJI & BS Show Jumping
* Pony Club
* Private and group lessons
* Fun rides
* Cross-country
* Games (but only the kids playing in the school)
Suzie was brought from Ireland for my son’s 7th birthday, she was his 2nd pony (1st pony was so spooky, he would fall off all the time, he had never cantered off lead until Suzie). He wasn’t really ready for a competition pony, yet she trained him up fast. She made him feel safe, which he had never felt when riding until this point.
Suzie has a very decorated jumping record in Ireland with a lot of wins up to 1m. We have competed her up to 85cm, single fences at home of 1.10.
Her only ‘fault’ is she is marish. She has never actually kicked another pony when in season, but she would. We’ve tried her on regumate & it works, but makes her too steady for us. By her being like this, she is extremely confident in herself, which actually makes her a parents dream & I look for this trait in all other ponies now. By her being so confident in herself. She doesn’t need other ponies around. So can be in the field by herself, in the stable, at shows, hacking etc. It also means she’s not spooky or scared of anything. Which means bathing, clipping, new fillers to jump etc. No problem for Super Suzie. My kids can do everything with her too.
She can turn out with others, but we turn her out individually & I think she prefers it. I’m always 100% honest about our ponies, as I only want them to go to the right homes. If anything I usually make any faults sound worse than they are, as atleast then it reduces the risk of selling to the wrong home.
She has never bucked, reared or napped. No vices or medical issues. No medication.
We are only selling Suzie as my son has totally out grown her. He’s only 9, but the size of a 14 year old, so we’ve had to move him onto bigger ponies. My other son has just turned 5 & has a smaller pony which the size is more suitable for him for at least another year or so. However much I’d love to keep her, I need the funds.
She is:
✔ Up to date with vaccinations
✔ Up to date with the dentist
✔ Up to date with chiropractor
✔ Farrier every 6 weeks
✔ Loads and travels beautifully in both a trailer and horsebox
✔ Happy to stand on the lorry all day
Our ideal home would be for Suzie to do exactly what she’s done for us, but for another boy or girl. As we are so appreciative to Suzie & I’d love her to go somewhere else where they feel the same. She’s a Queen & needs to be treated like one. So it goes without saying, only the very best home will be considered.
Please, genuine enquiries only. We don’t have time for multiple casual viewings or “pony shopping” days out, and we don’t think it’s fair on Suzie to have lots of children trying her. We ask that you only arrange a viewing if you genuinely feel she could be the right pony for you.
More photos & videos on request. I have hundreds. Videos from my son first sitting on her, dropping his reins at every jump, making it as hard as possible for Suzie 😂, to now, where they are a pretty cool team. Plus many with his 4/5 year old brother riding her too. Including at POP/ Aintree mid-August where my 5 year old competed her completely off lead rein by himself in the cross poles, then later my 9 year old took her around the Stepping Stones. She was completely two different ponies for them.
Location - Derbyshire (DE65)
📞 Please call or WhatsApp Laura on 07894 138436