Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2013 6:36:54 GMT -8
ABERCROMBIE AND FITCH
The Basics
Show Name: Abercrombie and Fitch
Barn Name: Brasher
Age: 12
Gender: Gelding
Breed: Paint
Breed Registry: Paint Horse Association
The Appearance
Coat Color: Red and White
Stable Color: Light Green
Height: 16 hands
The Personality
Personality: Brasher is in the prime of his life and is one of two horses that his owner trusts enough to cart her fourteen year old beginner rider son around. He’s usually the herd leader when pastured with a group of horses, and he’s a gentle natured horse in general. Brasher may be on the taller side, but he’s not got a single aggressive bone in his body. He’s gentle, calm, and friendly, if not a little inquisitive. He enjoys being groomed for hours at a time and could easily be considered a ‘schoolmaster’ even with his younger age of twelve. He’s very forgiving of mistakes, but that doesn’t mean he’ll do what he’s supposed to do when his rider makes mistakes. He knows which cue is which and if it’s not given correctly, he often won’t perform the movement that’s being asked of him.
Caution Around: Brasher gets a little nervous of loud bangs (backfiring cars, gunshots, firecrackers, etc…) and loses his concentration undersaddle or on-ground. He’s also not too fond of trail-loading (he never has liked trailers, though he’s been trained to load from a young age).
The History
Basic History: Brasher was bought by Gwen Shackler in embryo for several thousand dollars and transported to the stable she worked at as a freshly weaned six month old stud colt who had never been handled outside of halter-training. She did all of his training and made the decision to not geld him until she’d shown him a few times, to see if he was worthy of keeping his man-parts or not.
Throughout his younger life, Brasher was shown in-hand in yearling classes and once he hit two and a half and his riding-work began, he was shown extensively. Manners were drilled into him, as he was still a stud and an unruly stud made for an accident wanting to happen. However, for a stud, he was always impeccably well-mannered and only tested his owner a few times.
His owner made the decision to have him gelded shortly after he turned five years old. Brasher was bred once, to a mare owned by the barn owner of the stable he was boarded at, and then cut. His owner had decided that it was just too much hassle to keep a stallion around, especially when she wasn’t actively planning on breeding him enough to warrant keeping him that way. She did keep showing him, though, and together they won several first,, second, and third places in the show-world. Brasher never seemed to take home anything less than a third place prize, though there were several times when he and his owner walked away with nothing. Gwen never thought of it as ‘losing’, though. Every show was a win for her, for it showed people how well-trained her horses were and advertised both the stable she boarded and worked at and her business as a trainer.
All of his life has been like that… training, schooling, showing, back home… Now though, now his life is about to change, for he’s being sent with his owners son to Blue Ridge to teach William how to ride...
The Technicalities
Discipline: English all-rounder
Owner: Gwen and Charles Shackler
Rider: William Alcott