Stunning quality super smart cob mare with the most wonderful quiet temperament

• Cob
• Black
• Mare
• 7 years
• 15.1 hands

• Excels as a hack/ pleasure ride/ hunt horse
• A fun forward going responsive ride
• She has the dream temperament, she is so easy in every way and extremely kind

Rain is a super smart 151h, 7 year old black Irish cob mare. Offered for sale on behalf of her owner.

Rain is a lovely quality stamp, being a nice sporty light weight cob who is athletic but still has a leg in each corner. She is a very striking being a black beauty with a very eye catching white blaze, 2 white socks and a white splash on her belly. She definitely catches the eye where ever she goes with her stunning looks combined with her kind eye. She has excellent conformation, clean limbs, straight movement and is blemish free. She passed a 5 stage vetting in August and has been very healthy and sound since. She has the most superb temperament and is a real pet, she will certainly make someone a best friend.

Rain is excellent to hack alone and in company. She is rock solid on the roads with all traffic including lorries, tractors and motor bikes. She is often used as a lead horse to escort green horses out safely. She is very sane and sensible in open spaces and loves hacking around the woods, around farmers fields and along river banks. She is a responsive forward going ride so doesn't need much leg. She is snaffle mouthed and doesn't get strong. She likes a soft quiet hand and wouldn't like being pulled hard in the mouth. She would happily suit a competent novice rider for hacking, she's a very straight forward hack you can just sit there and enjoy the ride whilst feeling very safe. She isn't the spooky type and is very confident in her own skin and will happily pass everything she meets. She has done lots of fun rides which she really loves doing and she has also been on horse holidays in her previous home where she enjoyed exploring new country side each day. She has also hunted 2 seasons in Ireland with a teenage girl and was brilliantly well behaved, she stood rock solid at the meet and jumped ditches, walls and hedges in the field. I think she would excel as a pleasure horse to enjoy lots of hacking, fun rides, beach trips and hunting with. She would also be a brilliant endurance horse as she has plenty of stamina and is light on her feet.

Rain has done a little bit of arena work but not loads as her owners have all been very much happy hackers. She has 3 good paces and has basic schooling established. She is a forward going responsive ride in the school and appreciates a nice quiet rider. She is not suitable for a novice rider in the school due to her being a responsive/ forward ride and still needing further education in the school. Having said that she is very safe and has no ridden vices. You can ride her every day or once a month and she will come out the same. She doesn't get fresh or silly. She is starting to learn to work into the contact but this is still a work in progress so she does require a bit more brining on in this respect. She is also starting to work in a lovely rhythm, she just rushes a little if she gets a little unbalanced. She just needs a bit more producing and she will be super as she has lots of potential and looks a picture when everything comes together.

Rain has done some show jumping in her previous home in Ireland with a teenage girl where she proved very straight forward and genuine. She isn't a world beater but she certainly has a go and has jumped around 70/80cm. She is nice and confident and bold into the jumps. She has done some pole work clinics with her current owner which she enjoys . She loves xc and has done more of this than sj. Her current owner has taken her xc schooling where she was a super star. She is very straight forward to ride xc, she knows her job well and jumps everything asked of her including ditches. She also loves going through the water. She has done some hunter trails in Ireland with her previous owner. She would be very suitable for someone that wants to have some fun doing some xc, pole work clinics and low level jumping alongside hacking.

Rain has a temperament in a million. She is a complete dream on the ground. She is the friendliest and easiest horse that I have ever had. She can literally be handled by anyone including some children, the elderly and non-horsey people. She is extremely well mannered and polite to be around, you can groom her and tack her up with her stable door left wide open and she will just stand there. She loves people and attention and is very patient and kind with everyone she meets, she would make the most amazing therapy horse. She forms a strong bond with her owner and puts a smile on your face every day. She is always good to catch and leads in very gently. She is perfect to shoe, loves to be clipped, great to bath, super to load- you can load her single handed. She is great to take out and rides the same in new places as she does at home. She lives in or out and mixes well with other horses or turns out individually next to others. She is currently out at night sharing afield with a gelding and comes in during the day. She is very submissive in the field and would be bottom of the pecking order, the gelding bosses her around and she just takes it bless her. She is not at all mareish. She really is a dream to look after on the ground and everyone falls in love with her! She is a real yard favourite and will be greatly missed. Rain must go to a knowledgeable 5*star home. I would like her to go to a rider who can enjoy hours of hacking/ pleasure rides with her and generally have fun with her. She would equally suit a home to do some low level alround riding club or a hunting home. I also feel she would thrive in a natural horsemanship home as she loves doing ground work too.

Videos available, based in Ramsey, Cambs, £9,950, please call Katherine on 07460820294.