We acquired Cotton from a lesson barn with too many horses. She LOVED standing in the middle of the ring with the instructor, instead of out on the rail. She had a lovely QH jog, but was reluctant to canter. If you really, really wanted a canter, she'd give you a big gallopy canter, that would send the lesson kids pulling on the reins to stop. And she was extremely girthy. But she was bombproof, low on the pasture totem pole (no issues with Trouble alpha-ness), and cheap. So we brought her home.
After gentle, consistent work, Cotton is less girthy, stands to mount, and stays on the rail. She was awful for worming when we got her (not sure if they wormed all 62 of their horses), but you can now worm her halter-less. Hurrah!
With Trouble soundness issues, I've been borrowing Cotton a lot. DH won't let me jump (poor, old horsey!), so I've decided to work on lateral movements (front and hind pivots, sidepassing and backing) to try our hand at trail classes at a local show. Wish us luck!
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