Man, I wish I lived in SC!

[Barbwire]

Check out this guy! The onwer says they are selling him because he is the only gaited horse they have with their QH's and he "just don't fit in."

Can you all chip in and buy me this horse? I wonder if they would trade for Mojo??

:shock:

http://www.equine.com/horses/dshowhorse.asp?horseid=900384

[Terri]

I hate it when people have to match all their accessories

[El Indio Elegante]

it says he they don't have papers but he sure does look like he would.I wish i could help. I don't know how far away hartsville is away from me. I bet there is a way to track him back to find out who his parents were. We've done that with 2 of our horses and with one of them it made it so we can register him now. The other one was never registered but when we did the research he was 17 and we were able to trace him back to when he was 3.

[motorgypsy]

Hartsville is east of Columbia not far from Florence and Darlington - maybe 70 miles from Myrtle Beach. Very far from us. There's more to the story I'd be willing to bet. Really nice looking boy!! Maybe they took him as payment for a debt. We rode a nice gelding that was obtained like that - unfortunately his QH owner taught him to trot when ridden and we didn't feel able to retrain him at that time. Actually I wish we had bought him. He was a sweetheart!

[Ginger]

Aww, poor guy looks like Zumi! :(

[KAB]

If anyone lives close enough to check him out, I know someone that may buy him.It's 8 1/2 hrs. from me tho.

[Brigitte]

He looks so fun to ride... :D

[jodiTowne]

I'd like to go to SC just for a days trailride! Sick of ice! My horses are stuck in a 30 x 30 square area surrounded by ice! Wish I had a private jet. Can anyone help ME out?!

[motorgypsy]

Come on down but bring your muck boots! You know how things are at the spring thaw in the north? Well it's like that all winter here - mud a foot deep. The pasture where we ride is too muddy is too muddy. But it was 60 degrees out yesterday and beautiful so we could spend the day clearing limbs from the ice storm.

[stella]

Yes, he's at least a 2 hour drive from me, too.
Well Jodi & Barbara, I'm a former NYer(then Md, now SC), so I do feel for you in that weather! We're having a cold spell (relatively speaking)today and tomorrow, in low 50s, and then all next week, its going to be in the mid-60s again, there's a few critters here need some exercisin'!

BTW Motorgypsies, should be a trailride at Diane's next Saturday, the 14th. Hope the weather will continue to hold up.

[paintedhorizon]

Me too! Me too!! Motor, you absolutely MUST come this time! You MUST! Or I'll be very upset!

BTW Motorgypsies, should be a trailride at Diane's next Saturday, the 14th. Hope the weather will continue to hold up.

[Terry Wallace]

Definitely one to take a look at..doesn't look like he is registered however, if you are of a "showing persuasion"....

[appyday]

Did you see he was SOLD??

[Barbwire]

Bummer.

[appyday]

You wanna come ride him???

[Barbwire]

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[paintedhorizon]

No you didn't!

You wanna come ride him???

[cowboy ed]

so, MG, if hartsville is in SC, what part of SC are you in that you would be very far from it? just curious.
which brings up another question entirely. how far is too far to go just to look at a horse? i drove 950 miles one way to look at my andalusian stallion when he was a nine month old colt. i brought him back, but would not have if i didnt like his looks. i drove 1300 miles one way to get my mustang colt that i won in a raffle!
maybe i could drive up to SC and check out this horse! or is he still available?

[Kerry W]

Depends on how many you have to drive right by to get there Ed. :lol: If it were a certain horse you'd been dreaming of forever....no distance is too far. :D

[ErinC]

APPY did you really????

:-?

[motorgypsy]

We're in what is known as the "dark corner" of SC - far northwest near TN and NC and GA.

We drove 1200 miles round trip to go see our stallion because we owned his grandmother and really were crazy about her. A friend is a horse broker and she called us and told us she had just gotten in her grandson to sell because one of his owners died and the other felt it was a shame to let such a nice stalion just sit as a pasture ornament. She sent us a picture of him and we said - hold him - we'll be right down. We left the next day, got there and rode him the day after with another stallion and two mare around a two mile block. His gait was amazing and he was amazing so now he's part of the family and was well worth the trip.

That part of SC is easiest reached by coming up I95 to Florence and going west on I20. Avoid Jacksonville unless you are going through at 4 am or something.

[motorgypsy]

I put the trail ride on the calendar. We just had another death in the family this weekend but I hope things will calm down soon.

We're still cutting all the downed trees from the ice storm. It is unbelieveable how many trees came down. There was a worse one for us 20 years or so ago but it didn't hit the city. This one did. There were people right in the middle of downtown Greenville without power for 9 days. This is a metro area of more than 400,000 people to give you an idea of the extent of the damage.

[Kerry W]

I thought the dark corner of SC was South of the Border? No? :lol: :lol:

[motorgypsy]

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: Si senora!!

They call our area the dark corner because the '"revenooers came in but they didn't come out". We have destroyed stills all over this area and our neighbor got caught and served time for bootlegging. The other neighbor never got caught. The law they swore they'd get him but the debbil got him first!!

[Kerry W]

Yes...lots of women "lose" things after going through S.O.B. (South of the Border). :lol:

Actually, that is one of the great things about the south...such a rich history of ne'er do wells. :lol: What is sad, is to think that the beginnings of NASCAR racing will be forgotten, if they're not already. :(

We're friends with a family whose Patriarch was a bootlegger. He had a house built on stilts in his pond. It had a wooden walkway that you had to use to get to it. If the law made it around the dogs, over the walkway and up to the door, there was a trap door in the floor...he'd drop the liquor in the pond, and fetch it later. :lol:

What's funny now is, with all of the development around here, there are some pretty hoity toity neighborhoods that sit on that old "hallowed ground". :lol:

[motorgypsy]

That''s exactly what has happened here. The guy who didn't get caught finally died at a very old age and his family sold his land to a developer of million dollar homes. wonder how many of those millionaires made their money on bootleg during prohibition???

[Pasomom]

Ok, Appy, yes or no....you got that horse? Let us know...we are dying in suspense.

[Barbwire]

That answer would be "no".