• Connemara
• Bay
• Gelding
• 8 years
• 14.1 hands

• Lovely cuddly personality
• Great Class 1 breeding - siblings jump pony foxhunter
• Super hack in heavy traffic - used to life on a busy farm

We bought Rory as a 4 year old to bring on as a fun hack and do some low level jumping and dressage. This is a totally honest advert so here are his good points:

He is as close to bombproof as it is possible to be on the roads and on our busy livestock and arable farm
He gets on with other horses and goes out with mares and geldings
He is happy living in or out
He comes to call from the field and walks beside you to his stable with no headcollar. Anyone could handle him safely, he is so kind and cuddly.
He is never sick or sorry
He loads and travels beautifully and I can take him to shows and clinics on my own with no problems
He is perfect for the farrier and is barefoot with great feet
He will hack well on his own or with others. We live next to a busy airbase and on a farm so he is not bothered by planes, helicpoters, lorries, tractors or farm animals
He works in a nice outline and has been out to local dressage shows - most recently scoring 63% in Intro 3
He loves children and has been ridden by novices out hacking and in the school
He loves people and loves a fuss, comes to call from the field
He stands nicely for you to get on
He loves being groomed
You can leave him in the field for a month and he is no different when you get back on. He has never bucked or reared. He is currently fit and in work. He is N/N for HWSD.

Here are his not so good points
He is fidgety to clip. This year I managed to clip his neck and belly on my own without sedation. Last year we sedated him to do a full clip
He can get strong in the school in canter and when jumping
He sometimes gets nervous under saddle, mainly in the school and can shoot forward - this is fine if you are a competent rider but he has made me nervous too. For this reason we will only sell him to a home with a confident competent rider to work with him.
He needs more consistent work on his jumping (he loves it though)
He is quieter out hacking than he is in the school - this could be a good point or a bad point!

We are very fond of him but my daughter has moved on to horses and is working away and I would like something a little more straightforward. He will only go to a lovely home. We are on the Gloucestershire/Wiltshire/Oxfordshire border.