Anne-Marie's Horses

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Part I : Photo

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Part II : Nomenclature

Registered Name: Nickels and Dimes
Show Name: Nickels and Dimes
Barn Name: Dollar

Other Nicknames: Pest, Bam-Bam

Part III : Generalizations[/u]

Age: 15
Birth Year: 1993
Gender: Gelding

Part IV : Color Attributes[/u]

Base Coat Color: Chestnut Palomino
Markings: Right hind sock

Mane Color: Flaxen (white)
Tail Color: Flaxen (white)

Part V : Standards

Breed: Quarterhorse
Height: 15.2 hands
Weight: 1150 pounds

Part VI : Attributes[/u]

Personality: Dollar’s just your everyday horse... who has a knack for escaping his stall/paddock and getting into the tack room/feed room. He’s a horse that anyone can ride... calm, even tempered, and silly. He has a lot of get-up and go for the more advanced riders, but will refuse to leave a fast walk when a beginner is on his back.

Dollar loves to play in water and if you have to cross a creek somewhere, well, you can forget about it until he’s had his fun... splashing until he’s got both his rider and himself soaking wet. He amuses himself be stealing hats and curries and the occasional saddle-blanket.
Likes: People, getting petted, dewormer (he’s an odd horse), trails, running and bucking like a three year old when first let loose in a pasture, escaping his paddock and/or stall
Dislikes: Whips, rough handlers, needles (his one major fault... he’s a terror for vaccinations and anything that requires a needle), big trash cans (he’ll act like an idiot... spooking and shying as he passes them one way, but when passing them the other way he acts like they’re not even there...)

Part VII : Background[/u]

Past Owner/s: Bob Hilson (breeder, raised and trained Dollar until he was sold as a five year old stallion) / Rachel Dean (used Dollar as a breeding stallion for the first year she owned him before gelding him and furthering his training and then she and her two sons and daughter used him as a trail and show horse for an additional three years before he was sold to the Blacks at age nine

History: Dollar was born at a Quarterhorse breeding farm in Georgia. He started showing in hand as a yearling and as once he started his riding training, he was shown locally by his trainer and breeder in trail classes and was started in western pleasure. Upon being sold as a five year old, he was then used as a breeding stallion for a year by his new owner before he was gelded and his training started up again. His western pleasure training was finished, though he never did that well in it, and he once again started showing and competing in trail classes and, surprisingly, rodeo events. He mainly did barrels, but was also used as a roping horse. By the time he was sold to the Blacks (for a very high $6500) he knew his job backwards and forwards and had proven to be an excellent horse for a beginner to learn on.

Trained In: Barrels, Roping, Western Pleasure, Trail Classes, and Trail Riding
Owner/Rider: Anne-Marie Black

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Part I : Photo

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Part II : Nomenclature

Registered Name: Arsenic and Lace
Show Name: Arsenic and Lace
Barn Name: Lacey

Other Nicknames: Lace, Silly Girl, Nutter

Part III : Generalizations[/u]

Age: 5
Birth Year: 2004
Gender: Mare

Part IV : Color Attributes[/u]

Base Coat Color: Pale Chestnut
Markings: Four socks and a calf face with glass eyes and ‘eyeliner’ around both eyes

Mane Color: Pale Chestnut
Tail Color: Chestnut (a little bit darker than her body and mane color)

Part V : Standards

Breed: Paint
Height: 16 hands
Weight: 1200 pounds

Part VI : Attributes[/u]

Personality: Lacey is a very curious mare... her personality now doesn’t reflect the fact that she’s been neglected in the past. She loves people and she loves treats. Her favorite thing to do is pig out... she’s a very easy keeper, though, so you really have to watch her weight as it doesn’t take muck for her to blow up.

She’s always interested in what’s going on around her and she seems to be a pretty solid and unshakable horse. Lace hates trailering, though, and will put up a huge fuss when asked to load, though after about half an hour she’ll step up into the trailer. Thunderstorms also terrify her and she often works herself up into a frenzy during storms... she has to either be closely monitored or sedated during major thunderstorms because she’ll injure herself trying to get away from it.
Likes: Peppermints, baths, playing in the pasture, sunbathing, rolling in mud, cameras (she always seems to know when a camera is turned on her and is extremely camera-friendly), and gorging herself
Dislikes: Carrots, alfalfa pellets, her hind legs being messed with, trailers, thunderstorms, and farriers (she’s not mean or anything.. she just does little things to annoy them like tossing their rasp or clinchers through the air and stealing the horse-shoes)

Part VII : Background[/u]

Past Owner/s: Heath Matthews (her breeder and owner for the first year of her life) / Jarrett Nelson (bought her thinking that she could take care of herself, as he just wanted a ‘pasture pet’... had her for two and a half years until she turned three and a half and then sent her to the auction... where Anne-Marie’s grandfather found her, emaciated and riddled with worms... and bought her for his grand-daughter

History: Lacey was bred and born in Georgia, near the Alabama line. She was only at her breeders for a year before she was sent through the auction and sold for a good thousand dollars. Her second owner only wanted the gorgeous filly as a pasture ornament and wasn’t ‘horse savvy’... He thought that she could survive on her own. At first, she did well, but as winter neared she became wormy and slowly started to lose weight. By the time she was three and a half, she was emaciated to a low 2 on the scale. Her hooves were very overgrown and she had a pretty serious injury to her left for from getting tangled in hotwire. She was sent through the auction, her owner hoping to get at least fifty dollars for her. Instead, the man got thirty dollars for her, as she was bought by an old man who had looked past her deplorable condition and had seen her beauty and potential and wanted her for his grand-daughter.

For Anne-Marie, it was love at first sight. As she watched the pitiful mare fly from the trailer as fast as she could go in her condition, she adored her. After about a year and a half, Lacey’s weight was almost popping and her injury healed up as best it was going to, as it was already half healed when the mare met her new owner and there wasn’t much that could be done at that point. The injury still bothers Lace at times (it was a small fracture to her leg along with many lacerations), so Anne-Marie gets it checked by the vet twice yearly. So far, though, it hasn’t hampered her ridability, though she hasn’t started her riding training yet... just had the saddle and bridle on and her owner has sat on her back once.

Trained In: Not ‘trained’ yet... will probably just be a trail horse unless the vet gives the all clear to train her to barrels or something harder than a leisure walk, trot, and canter on the trails
Owner/Rider: Anne-Marie Black