Fin's Ponies

[Finley June]

My First Flower

Registered Name>> My First Flower
Barn Name>> Rose
Age>> 14 years
Sex>> Mare
Breed>> appaloosa cross
Breed Registry>> unregistered

Coat Colour>> bay leopard appaloosa
Stable Colour>> purple and black
Height>> 15.2 hh

Personality>> Rose is very, very smart. Unfortunately, she's smart to the point of devious. Her stall has to have special safe-guards to keep her in, because Rose knows how to open most standard locks. Once free, the appaloosa mare enjoys leading those who try to catch her on a wild chase all around property. She's got a pretty positive attitude towards most things, the most common expression on Rose's face is one of interest. For some reason, she really hates women. Any lady that walks by her beware, Rose will come for you with bared teeth. She can be rather nasty on the ground if she's frustrated, it's not uncommon to see her biting her handlers just for fun.

Rose in an unexciting, but fun horse under saddle. She knows her job and knows it well, at this point there's no surprises with her. She's got very clean movements while jumping and doing dressage, and usually gets ranked high in the show ring. Her weakness is her lead changes, while Rose will do them it usually includes a lot of pinned ears and a swishing tail. When dressage schooling, Rose will sometimes balk or crow kick when she's bored. Because she's so smart, the appaloosa mare gets tired of repeating the same exercises over and over. Diversity is key to riding this horse - the more boring a task is, the more she's likely to throw a fit about it. She does seem to love jumping, during cross-country she can get a little strong and forward, but nothing unmanageable.
Caution Around>> women, be sure to shut her into enclosures securely

Basic History>> Fin and Rose have been a team for quite some time. He's owned the mare for close to 4 years now, and at this point they know each other well. Before she came to Fin, Rose was trained and shown by a well-known farm. She's not experienced much trauma in her life, and has been handled for the most part in a good way. She's actually just come back to Fin after being leased out for a year while he focused on training and riding a couple younger horses for his trainer. However, Fin wanted Rose to be the horse that he took to Blue Ridge.

She's a little grumpier and more devious than normal, the young rider that was leasing her for the year was less strict than Fin. She's also a little out of practice in the show-jumping ring as that wasn't a main priority for the kid.

Owner>> Finley June
Rider>> Finley June
Discipline>> 3-day eventing

[Finley June]

LMN Aviator

Registered Name>> LMN Aviator
Barn Name>> Avi
Age>> 6 years
Sex>> Gelding
Breed>> Akhal-Teke
Breed Registry>> ATAA

Coat Colour>> buckskin
Stable Colour>> turquoise and black
Height>> 16 hh

Personality>>Avi has a hard time standing still. He's a frisky gelding, always full of fire and life. He doesn't have a mean bone in his body, but Avi is still a difficult ride. The buckskin is rather spooky, especially around fluttering objects or loud sounds. He's always full of energy and life, it's not uncommon for him to throw a playful buck or two when getting started. In fact, it's rather mandatory for Avi to be lunged before being ridden due to his excess amounts of energy.
On the ground, Avi is sweet but a handful. He never seems to stand still, which can be quite frustrating when tacking up or during a vet visit. The akhal-teke has a rather bad habit of pawing the ground, mainly with his left fore hoof -
he's always wearing down his hoof and horseshoe on that foot.

The reason for putting up with Avi's behaviour is his extraordinary talent. The buckskin gelding can jump pretty much anything set before him, and with style too. This is one place where Avi's tendency to spook has no effect - the gelding will jump pretty much anything set before him. While his talent is impressive, the gelding needs much more fine-tuning to be able to show competitively. Avi possesses a large amount of pure talent, but not much finesse and experience to put that talent to good work.
Caution Around>>loud noises, fluttering objects

Basic History>>Avi was born on a akhal-teke breeding farm to a chestnut broodmare. While his dam was nothing special, Avi's sire was a well-known akhal-teke stud. From a young age, his talent to jump was apparent. Avi's upbringing was gentle,
while he was halter broken, not much more was done with him until Avi was a yearling. Then, he was sold to another farm. He lived there until his fourth year, when he was sold yet again. Avi was leased out to a girl for about a year,
but it wasn't a good match. That was when Fin's trainer decided to have him work with the gelding. Fin and Avi got along well from the beginning, and soon after Fin left for Blue Ridge, his trainer called him and asked if he'd be willing to keep Avi at the campus barn.

Owner>> Lauren Hill
Rider>> Finley June
Discipline>> 3-day eventing