Saved from gelding.... WarSong

[Rusel]

Can you imagine why anyone would want to geld this guy. He's home and back to his own sweet self...

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Between his long tail and FireSong long tail,,, that baby should be hairy.!!!

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Hopefully, now that he's by himself, his mane will grow back in.... Isn't he a pretty thing.... I think Kathy is really gonna be proud of him... Bernice is sending me the riding videos this weekend...

[Brigitte]

he sure is pretty!

[ASB.Immortality]

WOW!!! He is just gorgeous!

[appyday]

Takes a good stud to make a great gelding..

[Palomino_Lover]

You ARE shipping him to Nevada right? :-?

[Terri]

wait a minute, who was gonna geld him and why? Isn't he your horse?

[TrueStepPaso]

B - E - A - U - T - I - F - U - L !!!!! :shock: :D

[Terry Wallace]

Lookin' good Rusel..his "smutty half brother" says HI from Colorado.
Lookin' at you from my avatar!

[DSDECKERT]

Takes a good stud to make a great gelding..

Couldn't have said it better myself!!!!

[DebbieS]

Love those dark palos!! He is awesome!

[Laura S]

Oh My he is LOVELY! My mare would like him too. She seems to like the ones that are so far away!!

[Pasogirlz]

He sure is good looking!

[JennLM]

You ARE shipping him to Nevada right? :-?

Guess this means we need more then 4 horses now??

[Bonnie M]

:shock: Wow, he is stunning! I wish my guy could get that dark!

Rusel, is this the same one you sold and then I believe it was Patti got him from someone and he was thin?

I remember a post about one of your baby's getting in bad shape.

[Terry Wallace]

Bonnie...you need smut gene in your palomino to get that "smutty palomino"... War Song is the half brother to Dante... Both could be called Dunalinos....both have the countershaded dorsal you can see in War Song's "rear view"....

RUSEL...... How tall is War Song?
Doesn't that (looks like a ) saddle sore just hack you off? Who did that to him?

[CarolU]

Glad you saved his #4@% Rusel!!!! He's sure a pretty boy!

[PattiB]

I'm the one that wanted him gelded for his new owner's safety. Kathy came out every week to work with him and he was always trying to push into her and rear up to mount anything in sight! He is also the one I was refering to that would rear straight up and down when I got on him and try to mount everything. The last straw was when the teenager that cleans stalls went into the stall and tried to make him go out in the run and he reared up and slammed the gate into her knocking her down. Seems he was a perfect angel everywhere but here! :!: The amish that started him got him back and they say he was just fine. I'm still wondering what will happen when Kathy gets him home just hope she doesn't get hurt.

[Mellifluous]

Is this the same Amish party that royally screwed up his feet?

[PattiB]

That would be the same. Looks like he has lost all the weight we put on him too. They were riding him 5 miles a day from what Kathy told me.

[Abejita]

5 miles a day might just take a little piss and vinegar out of anything..

[Mellifluous]

That would be the same. Looks like he has lost all the weight we put on him too. They were riding him 5 miles a day from what Kathy told me.

I would not be worried about the 5 miles a day as long as he is being fed enough to compensate for the energy expenditure. Do you still have the pics of his feet?

[PattiB]

Yes I have the pics still, I think I took pics of them before he left too.

[Mona Lisa]

Gelding a stallion can be one of the kindest acts of an owner (not done by the owner of course).

Mona

[Fino1]

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[Carol Kuiper]

As every owner of an Mani x Angel foal will tell you, the best quality of these horses is their dispositions. If WarSong was acting up I believe it is because of the way he was being handled. You cannot force these horses to do what you want, you have to ask. Since I have bred 11 of them from Angel, most sired by Mani, I believe that my knowledge of their behavior and how they react to be exactly as Rusel describes. None of these foals have been gelded--they did not need to be. Terry, the last time I saw WarSong he did not have a saddle sore like he does now.

[Heidi]

Here is my Mani x Angel daughter, Q.

She is smart and very interested in EVERYTHING you are doing anywhere near her. Very much people-oriented. She went away for saddle training mid-July and is doing fabulous. Her trainer is very impressed with how quick she is to pick up on things. Her husband has commented about her 'going-too-fast', but Q seems to take it all in stride asking for more and Pat finds herself backing off before Q can find anything to complain about. Always ending the session on a good note.

Every day, she is caught and tied to stand and learn patience. Then she is worked/ridden in the corral and taught to yield and tip her nose on lighter and lighter cues. She backs up easily with a verbal cue. After every session she is rinsed with the hose, she is still not too happy with it, but does enjoy it when it is hot, as it has been lately. Then she stands tied again until she is dried.

Pat says she is muscling up. I was sorta hoping she'd lose some weight...she looked like a wanna-be-fatty to me when I sent her over. I'll have to take some pics next time I go see her. I also want to borrow a video camera and take some footage...
Heidi

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[appyday]

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[Rusel]

I guess the only comment that I can make in his behalf is that he was a piece of cake while he was here... My granddaughter, age 15, worked him for 2 years without a problem. And we climb up and over and under all the horses we work, stallions included. He was bred on his first breeding in a nylon halter and a long lead line. No Chains, but a short riding crop that I only used once across his chest. He immediately backed up and waited. Bernice took him to her place in Mo and the only problem she had with him was he and Dream Weaver would horse play so much that they were tearing up her fences so she had to separate them. He was ridden here in the arena bareback with a sidepull. Over stumps and ditches, with mares no further away than 50 ft in their pasture and not a lick of rear or buck. So with that history from this end I would place my bet on the decency of the horse. In my book he deserves the chance to prove himself and that it was the situtation and NOT the nature of the horse.

I also believe in gelding most of the stallions, probably 90%..... but not when it's because of reaction to training. I've rehabilitated too many stallions from a poor match of trainer and stallion. Not all trainers are good with all horses, just as not all people are good with all other people.

As to "Amish" training....???? He went from me to Bernice to Patti... and I got weekly photos of him while he was at Bernice's ( I AM a pain in the butt about my HORSES) and I never saw him thin.... You have to remember that this was my BABY and I did not want to sell him but needed surgery. So I was very on top of how he was taken care of, til he was sold.... The terrors of sales....!!! Bernice says he is doing fine with her and will send me a video this weekend.... and as you can see I'm back in the loop of getting my photos again.... Kathy seems to be more comfortable with him so we'll see what happens.... Could be he might just end up back home if she's not happy...!!

[appyday]

Rusel honestly I live with Amish...and I know the Amish...and I deal alot with them..Dont think I would give them my Paso stud..JMO

[Palomino_Lover]

Amish think a horse is for working the fields. Or at least that is my understanding.

[PattiB]

The amish had him for a month before I got him, so it wasn't from Bernice to here. I have handled and trained stallions for thirty years, I think I know how to handle a bad acting one. Like I said he may have been an angel there but he was a dangerous one here, no one mishandled him to make him that way, he was that way from the first day. He improved but was never trustworthy for a novice owner.

[Moniece Dickerson]

Rusel he is SOOO beautiful!!!Your friend,Moniece