than what I currently have and Sonny sounds just like them. Though I did have two others gelded, though they were owned by other people at the time they were gelded, I said one definitely needed doing and the other was near to his time, too. Tonto was obviously a mishandled colt when I got him, but his demeanour has improved tenfold now.
I do agree they can be dangerous and I worked in the racing industry for years to see workmates with split open skulls from a single stallion strike, girls with punctured lungs from colt strikes and even a guy rushed to hospital with a ruptured stomach, from a little TB foal kick. I always wore a helmet and level 3 safety vest with the stallions and colts and never got attacked, until the last colt I washed saw the "teaser" stallion and that was when without a bit of warning, suddenly I saw the earth coming to my nose and felt this "up to that moment" very warm and fuzzy colt's hooves bashing my back in!!! I was shrieking and laying there and ALL I was wondering was "why is this horse on such uneven ground, still bashing me?????" and the answer was....upon seeing the teaser stallion, he reared suddenly and his front shoe got caught in my safety vest on the way down and got stuck, so he was simply trying to free it, but it felt like he was bashing me
up!! We found the top half shoulder of my vest in his shoe!!! To this day, I wear that vest daily when riding. IT is a sound reminder of what can go wrong with colts/stallions.
That is certainly a cute story about your stallion. I see what you mean, and it obviously gave you many advantages over having him left entire. Oh yeah, another very famous stallion my ex used to ride, one of the most famous racehorses in our country, well I went and saw him he was a quiet little race colt, but now.....oh man, he is a big, fat biting stallion, lol. So, I know what you mean. I would hope no one would be naive enough to think all stallions and colts are sweet and quiet. But Lisa's Sonny is as sweet as my TB colts at this current moment in time and so is Tonto, (perhaps to a lesser degree) so yeah, while they may be warm, fuzzy sweeties right now, for how long that lasts for us, we do not know. It has been just pouring rain like you would not believe here, all Tonto is worried about right now is stayin' dry, lol. He isn't even lookin' at the ladies.
I think what Lisa and me are marvelling about is that at the moment we can see nothing but warm and fuzzy and it is very enjoyable for us. Tonto does have his shorty mare. Sonny is still a gentleman. My other two TB colts are lambs, still pulling foal clacker faces at all horses. Reading all the advice here has certainly informed us both of a thing or two. We know this may not last, we know some day there may be some oncoming sign that things are changing. I know they can crack your head open and leave a big red mark from your temple to the back of your skull in a line, where they smashed open the head. But for the moment, we are enjoying them as they are. At least we are not so naive now to think it will last forever (but who knows, people have been saying this to me for 5 years!!!!!)....but while it does, we love to share and enjoy that rare pleasure of having found a sweet stallion.
Kim xooxox
Kim xoxoxoox
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From: twinpinesmt <twinpinesmt@yahoo.com>
To: askavet@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 5 October, 2009 5:33:47 AM
Subject: [AskAVet] Re: Stallions
I am just stating facts that I have seen and herd first hand knowledge..now lets say newbies come on here and hear all the fuzzy talk about stallions and how nice they are. so they go out and get one and a mare and hope to have nice fuzzy little babies because they can...and they end up with a monster. Im not mad at you, people need to understand most stallions are not all warm and fuzzy and many of them live very frustrating lives.
My stallion was just like yours (raised, owned, shown, trained horses my entire life) at home. ride him anywhere do anything with him. He was comfortable in his own domain...take him away from home to lessons and he was a totally different horse, challenging everything in site. He wasnt mean about it nore was he too terribly dangerous about it either. But there was NO way in hell that he was going to make a show horse or that I could enjoy him outside the ranch. In otherwords I couldnt get him out in public to prove himself or help the neighbors. I had plenty enough interest in him to get a bussiness breeding, but was I going to let him live a miserable lonly life without a job NO. So I gelded him a year ago, he now can live with all of the horses (he can still 'breed' a mare however), he has been shown and I have been helping the neighbors and they can help me. He is a much much happier horse now.
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