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Yesterday, while we were out helping at the stables, Sue (stable owner) came over and told my oldest daughter to tack and ride Kiva, that she really needed it. This is one of her favorite horses. She is older, stable, well trained, a wonderful horse for a beginning rider. She then told my husband and I that Kiva was now available to adopt through FFER.
So now my oldest had a decision to make, between two horses she loves, DC the pony and Kiva the quarter horse. Since we were out at the stable yesterday volunteering, there is a lot of work needing to be done at a place like Iron Springs. She asked me to help her groomed Kiva after riding her, in other words she need to talk.
To me it was a simple decision, but then my heart wasn’t as involved, we had found out some things about DC in the last few months that really bothered me. One he hasn’t been ridden in almost 2 years, and during that time has been turned out at all the times. So he would have to be worked with a professional trainer for a while, before he could be ridden by anyone. Secondly, we were told that DC was a perfect children’s horse and that even our youngest could ride him. When I told Sue that she was shocked. She told us that his temperament is very hot, she said that she would be afraid to put oldest daughter or anyone but the most experienced riders on DC, and that would only be after he received a lot of ground work and training. Plus, with the need a lot of expensive training it would have taken him out of the ability for our oldest to pay for and work for his keep.
Add to this that Kiva’s adoption fee was exactly the amount that she had in saving to buy her futre horse! Plus the fact that Kiva loves my oldest as much as she loves her, they just have a connection, DH was asked by two different people, one a trainer there to talk about work with some horses and kids, and the other a mom that board there, if Kiva was our horse, they both were surprised to find out that she wasn’t, as the connection is that evident!
Sooo to make a short story even longer, our oldest has spent her savings and bought her first horse!
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