Traveler is the roan horse I used in serpentine. He is a nice horse and safe for beginners at a walk and trot. When you gain speed, he can be fast and under pressure he can get hot with cattle and become hard to stop. He is a sweet horse, likes people and is affectionate. His ground manners are perfect. We have talked about selling him for some time. We have too many horses now and he doenst get ridden enough. He has kind of been my horse. Jake has been able to ride him well and has taken him trail riding. He gets a bad cough and needs to have his hay watered down, so I wanted to make sure he went to someone that knew that and would take proper care of him. We talked it over and Jayden wanted to list him for sale. She was excited about taking on the sale. She wanted expeience in listing and selling a horse. I told her, he would probably sell in the first day. She went ahead and put a post on her personal facebook that only her friends would see. My friend Jessica was interested and being a vet I knew would take the best care of Traveler and she was looking for her son. We were a little hesitant about having a young kid ride him. They insisted on coming to ride. We gave them the good, bad, and ugly. We told them everything we could think of. We told them he gets hot around cattle, we told them he has been known to crow hop when roping. We explained his diet, and anything we could think of. Jessica had her 11 year old son Colton ride him. He walked, trotted, and loped him. Watching him ride made me question whether we should even sell him. He looked so amazing, in good shape and he worked like a pro. Jayden even got on him and roped the hot heels. . Jessica was impressed and we lined it up for her to take him home for a few days. It didn't take long and Colton and Jessica fell in love with Traveler. He was doing great and they wanted him. We offered to have them bring Traveler over and Mark would work with Colton and his dad teaching them roping skills. All was going well, until about 3 weeks later we got a phone call. They had taken Traveler a few places and he kept putting his head down and crow hopping. We had many conversations and and Colton and his dad came out 3 times to rope with us, but in the end Traveler came back and we gave them their check back. That nice check was going to be for Jayden. The check was for her spending all the time riding all our horses, training on Summer, and giving lessons. She even took a lump sum and bought some horse panels for traveling with it. That money was for her to buy some of the things she is needing for her horses. That was money spent and now given back. IT was disappointing all the way around.
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