Yesterday, I said goodbye to Wonder. I haven't had enough time for 3 horses, and something had to give. I had been toying with the idea of selling him for a little while, but hadn't really fully committed. I lightly marketed him on ISO Facebook posts, but didn't really expect much, if anything, to come out of it. Luckily, I was wrong! The perfect home just happened to come up within a week of me beginning to market him.
A family reached out to me, interested in him for their 15yo daughter. She loves thoroughbreds, but their current horse is needing to be retired. She can get anxious over fences, so she needs a horse that doesn't feed off of her anxiety. I was happy to have them out to see Wonder, but I really wasn't sure how he would be with someone that young, and with some anxiety when jumping. It turns out that he is a perfect match for her. He is steady and quiet in all the ways she needs him to be, but he listens and reacts to her obediently when she asks him to do something.
Her trainer came out and he also approved the match! She even jumped a bigger jump with him on their second ride together than she is usually comfortable jumping at home with her own horse. And Wonder really seemed to connect to her. He stood with his head in her arms for over 20 minutes the first time they came out.
As sad as I am that my goofy, opinionated, athletic, chubby blaze-faced boy is not with me anymore, I couldn't have picked a better home for him if I tried. I think he has wanted his own "person" for a very long time, and I think he will get all the attention that he deserves and more with his new girl. My pasture, and my heart feel a little emptier today, but I've already gotten several photos of him in his new home and that helps a lot.
I'm also very grateful that his new owners live in the area and will let me know when he goes to any local shows or anything, so I can still see him! Saying goodbye to him yesterday was pretty tough, but it was infinitely easier than it could have been, knowing how much his new girl already loves him.
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| My all-time favorite photo with him |
A family reached out to me, interested in him for their 15yo daughter. She loves thoroughbreds, but their current horse is needing to be retired. She can get anxious over fences, so she needs a horse that doesn't feed off of her anxiety. I was happy to have them out to see Wonder, but I really wasn't sure how he would be with someone that young, and with some anxiety when jumping. It turns out that he is a perfect match for her. He is steady and quiet in all the ways she needs him to be, but he listens and reacts to her obediently when she asks him to do something.
Her trainer came out and he also approved the match! She even jumped a bigger jump with him on their second ride together than she is usually comfortable jumping at home with her own horse. And Wonder really seemed to connect to her. He stood with his head in her arms for over 20 minutes the first time they came out.
As sad as I am that my goofy, opinionated, athletic, chubby blaze-faced boy is not with me anymore, I couldn't have picked a better home for him if I tried. I think he has wanted his own "person" for a very long time, and I think he will get all the attention that he deserves and more with his new girl. My pasture, and my heart feel a little emptier today, but I've already gotten several photos of him in his new home and that helps a lot.
I'm also very grateful that his new owners live in the area and will let me know when he goes to any local shows or anything, so I can still see him! Saying goodbye to him yesterday was pretty tough, but it was infinitely easier than it could have been, knowing how much his new girl already loves him.
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