Well they aren't quite ours yet. We are buying them from a friend for dirt cheap and they aren't in our possession just yet.
They are 7/8 Percheron and 1/8 quarter horse. Apparently the paint mare is registered as a spotted draft???? The people we are getting them from aren't horse people at all....I feel bad saying it, but they got them as pets and really had no idea what they were doing, and didn't really do much with these fantastic beasts. For example, this was the 2nd time all year that they've done anything with them, we had to PRY them out of our friend's hands. I kept saying, come on! We'll love them and they will be getting rode every day, they'll have something to do!
Anyway they are both 4 years old, and yes I agree it's one of the ugliest (mismatched) teams I've seen in my life! LOL. They need a lot of work in the riding aspect. They were broke to drive by an Amish guy so they are pretty good at that. The people that own them currently "broke" them to ride themselves, which was pretty much just getting on and riding. The horses have NO idea what I'm asking them to do when I'm on their backs so I'm going to have to do a lot of back tracking and training so they aren't so confused when people are on their backs.
The blue roan is going to be my boyfriends horse. I was looking for a really calm and gentle horse for a beginner rider and my boyfriend wanted a huge horse. Needless to say, it's a perfect match. I threw my synthetic saddle on to make sure it fit him (as well as it could). He's a BIG boy!
Me TRYING to ride him. He was so confused, poor thing. One thing I really liked about him, which I've RARELY had happen, is that he didn't test me to see if I knew a thing or two about horses. He just tried so hard to do what I asked him to do. I gave him lots of praise and he eventually started getting the hang of it.
The mare, she has two blue eyes
The gelding
When we were leaving!
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