Very sweet mare looking for her person and future occupation

• KWPN
• Brown
• Mare
• 8 years
• 16.1 hands

• Often winning her novice and elementary classes with keen amateur rider with scores over 68%
• Has gone BS with placings at Novice and Discovery
• Evented at BE90 and 100

Olia - posing us with a case of catch 22

16.1 - mare - 27.04.2018

Looks, feels and goes like she wants to be a dreamy teenager/ amateurs horse. Has definitely decided she doesnt want to be an amateurs horse in the near future.

Brief run down, weve had Olia a couple of years. Has always been a horse to run hot and cold very easily and without aparant cause. It doesnt take much to create a glitch in her work. Shes evented 90s and 100s successfully. Entered and trained at Novice and she jacked it in. Schooling over the bigger fences and being challenged on the turning related distances, through her brain and knocked her confidence on both the flat and over fences. Scaled her back to just flatwork, did some BD Novices and Elementarys with 67%+ in both, knows the moves, good half passes, shoulder ins etc. Changes a little rough but there.

Picked her back up to BS, therefore cutting out the cross country that we thought had scared her. Have got a good record over winter. Won an amateurs class in the 95cm one week and then eliminated at the second to last fence two weeks later. The difference being, we were getting her ready for sale so we'd got our, shorter, younger, not quite so strong groom to start schooling and jumping her more regularly and she'd started to sus her out. Spooking at the odd filler one day, spinning and rearing at it the next. This has been a behavioural trait since we've known her. Its very difficult to convince her shes okay, once shes decided she isnt!

She has had multiple possibilities checked, xrayed or scanned, with numerous bute trials at different stages too. Her vet history is sizeable, made up of investigation after investigation with nothing really notable found. Her owner has spent plenty of time and money doing whats right for her and continues to do so by doing the right thing and not trying to force a sale to the wrong person and passing the buck so please resist from the "you should have tried" or the "definitely in pain" comments.

We recognise that plenty of people enjoy taking the time to spend months or years going back to basics and forming a partnership with those horses that need that. Equally, shes well bred and its a good time of year to consider an 18 month sabbatical having a foal. We all like her very much, shes lovely to handle, easy in the lorry and preping at shows. Never any hassle to handle and enjoys a cuddle. We just recognise she'd probably rather a cuddle from someone who's not asking too much of her right now.

Does like to be first out and first back in, otherwise will politely box walk to voice her disapproval but only at those times.

"Cheeky offers" considered on behalf of her owner in return for a hassle free sale. Please do expect some form of 'vetting' on the phone, its important to her owner that shes not going to someone who's going to bite off more than they can chew or equally try and sell her off for a profit in six weeks.

Currently looking, as ever, sound as a pound but has had hind shoes off so we could stick her out with the livery horses (not used to going out as a herd) while we came up with a plan. Will pick her back up into work as interest in her dictates.

Feel free to text or call at whatever time. 'Do not disturb' definitely switched on so dont fear, ill respond when I can. WhatsApp prefered.

Based, Swalcliffe, Banbury.