PERCY
Everyone should at some point in their riding lives have a horse like Percy.
He isn't very big, only 15.2 hands high, and is an Australian Stock horse who started his life
on a big station in Chinchilla Queensland, and lots of the horses around him went on to do great
things in the camp draft arena, but Percy's life took a different path, and he ended up becoming
a very clever and well educated dressage horse.
You wouldn't know to look at him that he was going to be all that athletic at anything - as my coach
remarked the first time she rode him, and she'd know a good dressage horse, she said
"Oh my goodness, he looks like a farm ute and he drives like a Ferrari" .
The wonderful thing about Percy is he always tries, and he's super smart, so while other horses might
be getting themselves worked up, Not Percy, he tries his great big heart out, and then he tries a bit more.
Horses like Percy don't come along every day, or every year, sometimes only once in any riders life.
I feel beyond fortunate to have him.
Everyone should at some point in their riding lives have a horse like Percy.
He isn't very big, only 15.2 hands high, and is an Australian Stock horse who started his life
on a big station in Chinchilla Queensland, and lots of the horses around him went on to do great
things in the camp draft arena, but Percy's life took a different path, and he ended up becoming
a very clever and well educated dressage horse.
You wouldn't know to look at him that he was going to be all that athletic at anything - as my coach
remarked the first time she rode him, and she'd know a good dressage horse, she said
"Oh my goodness, he looks like a farm ute and he drives like a Ferrari" .
The wonderful thing about Percy is he always tries, and he's super smart, so while other horses might
be getting themselves worked up, Not Percy, he tries his great big heart out, and then he tries a bit more.
Horses like Percy don't come along every day, or every year, sometimes only once in any riders life.
I feel beyond fortunate to have him.