Bandit is a 1998 palomino gelding with a blanket all the way up to his withers. He is very flashy and is always a head turner.
Bandit joined our herd at the same time that we purchased Suzie. He is a Big 'O long tall gelding that can out walk most horses at a trot! If you needed to get somewhere... Bandit is the one that you want....just sit back and enjoy those long strides!
As for his bloodlines, his AQHA sire went back to Two Eyed Jack, Three Bars and Man O War while his dam was a granddaughter to Appaloosa Hall of Fame The Executive and went back to Joker B, Three Bars and Skipper W.
We had started the search for a big stout gelding for trail riding and we ran across Eli. After going back several time for "test drives" and quite a bit of negotiation about his price, we finally took him home.
Eli is a grade appaloosa gelding that joined our family in 1996. At the time, he was about 7 or 8 years old.
He was bought for the teenage brother at the time to ride, but quickly showed that "HIS" person was Mom... and that was that. Just a steady, reliable mild mannered gelding, she could then be found most afternoons riding down the road, usually with 8 year old Travis on behind her.
On one such occasion, a passing truck slowed, then stopped to come back and talk with her. "Is that horse's name ELI?" came the question, with a hesitant, "Yes" back from Mom. "And you have that baby up there with you!? Don' t you know who that horse is?!"
That is when we found out Eli's history. Apparently, he had been sold from Cowboy to Cowboy all over the county as "That Darn STUBBORN Appaloosa!" having kicked and stomped, and bucked off every one of them.
Now to this day, Eli has NEVER shown that side in the least with any of us. He has been a perfect gentleman, and even gone out of his way to protect us on occasion to keep us from being stepped on by other horses. Now we have included in the photos above the view you are most likely to see when you enter his pen.... his backside. Now this to a stranger may seem threatening... but in reality he is presenting the portion that he prefers to be scratched :-) !
Now a person should pay attention when the backside is presented. One story always surfaces when explaining this to visitors. During daily chores, Tracie was "too busy" to stop and scratch a moment, and he slowly kept creeping back to make sure that he was within reach.... soon.... Tracie found herself head over heals, pushed right on over into the water tank!
Pepper Joe is a little Blue Roan HORSE that we picked up at a local auction for a kid's pony but he is one of those "Ponies" that doesn't know that he is only 12.5hh. He is every bit the HORSE that any of his pasture mates are. Any adult can load up on him and ride him down the road all day long and believe me, we all have. What a joy he is to ride!
How old is he? Well we think he is around 18. We aren't sure, but we have had him for over 10 years, or you could say that he has had us for a decade. He is KING around here. Spoiled rotten and just as lively now as the day he arrived. He is a perminant pasusture fixture - although I think he is hanging around waiting for the "grand kids" to start showing up.
We do have to keep him seperate from the mares..... just as he doesn't know he is a *pony*, he doesn't know he is a gelding! :-)
VR is that horse that we put all the "newbies" on. Anyone that really hasn't ridden before, or needs a really steady, reliable horse to go trail riding on is put on VR. He has the best sense of direction of any horse we have known. If you get lost in the back woods, give him his head, and he will get you home.
We purchased VR at auction as a 2 year old stallion planning to drop him off at the Vet on the way home to be gelded. The Vet was closed, here we are 13 years later and he is still a stallion, but you would never know it.
We have never bred him, but are planning to cover at least one mare with him in the future to keep his bloodlines in our pasture and add a little speed and performance to our herd.
VR is breed to fly, and although he is only 14.2 hh, he is by far the fastest horse we have ever had. We have created a page with details on his pedigree and profiles of many of the Racing and AQHA Legends that make up his pedigree.
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