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Sassy is a beautiful black bay that loves trail rides and keeps up with horses half her age. She tries very hard at all times to keep herself clean and even admires herself in rain puddles. Although she looks more like her Saddlebred breeding, she has the ‘back pocket' personality of the Arab half.
Sassy came to us as a sick, skinny two year old sold to pay her boarding debt. Her very first night home one of our horses opened her paddock and let her out with all four of our pregnant mares AND the stallion and by morning she was pregnant, too. Sigh.... and so Irish Creme was born (see him under separate listing). We have had them both ever since and trained them to be excellent riding horses.
I can let them go if I know they are together. My husband usually rode Irish while I rode Sassy, but the half dozen times I rode him I could have shut my eyes and wouldn't have known which horse I was on.
I loved riding Sassy on the trails. She was always ready to go and interested in everything she saw and heard. I remember a ride at Shiloh Park when she really did NOT want to go and neither did any of the other horses. Of course, we made them go anyway and the horses were spooked the whole ride. In the paper the next day there was an article about mountain lion sightings in the park that weekend. From then on I paid a lot more attention to Sassy!
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