“ELI”, 2016 16.2+h grey gelding

Located at a farm in Canandaigua NY five minutes form the Finger Lakes Race Track

“Eli” (not his JC name – he doesn’t have one) is another horse from the same rescue/neglect case that Frosted Feather came from. When he was removed in early June from the farm where he and the other horses had been neglected, he was still an intact stud, and dangerously thin, standing on a mountain of feces in a stall with no food and water.  The great horsewoman who has him now gelded him in late July, and has been restoring him to health. She has had his feet done, gotten him up to date on coggins and vaccinations, and has started riding him; she is still working on getting more weight onto him.  Eli is not officially named with the Jockey Club and is unregistered and he never raced, but she has been able to verify his pedigree with his breeder, and she has been able to verify that he was on the track when he was two and was started under saddle and was jogging and galloping at the track. Eli has an outstanding sport horse pedigree; he is by Big Brown, out of Good Night Prayer, who is by Smarty Jones.  This female family has many stakes winning and producing mares in it, and is the same direct line female family as Fappiano, who is one of sires that sport horse people most like to see in a pedigree. Eli’s current caretaker reports that he is absolutely lovely to ride; “he has the smoothest canter I have ever sat on” she reported.  She says that he is getting better and better in each ride, picking right up from the last session, and that his canter is like sitting on a comfy couch and he will just go around like that for as long as you want on a soft rein and keeping an even pace and rhythm. She showed us a video of the very first time she rode Eli (and who knows how many years it had been since he had last been ridden). In that video, he went around on a soft rein, showing a big strided trot with loft and reach, and that droolworthy rhythmic canter that will turn heads in the show ring.  She says that Eli has does not crib or bite,  and has not shown any inclination to buck or misbehave in any way under saddle.  He has been overly attached to the two mares he was rescued with, and has walked his stall when they are out, and this has made it harder to put weight on him. His current person thinks that as his body and mind readjust to being a gelding, and when he is and the mares go off to their separate homes, he will settle down, because he is good to handle and generally sensible.  She is currently turning him out alone; she tried him with other geldings but since it was only a month after Eli had been gelded he was aggressive  with them. She recommends that for a while, until he has fully settled into his new gelding state, he should continue to be turned out alone.  She is confident that in the right experienced hands with someone who knows how to bring along a very green recently gelded horse, that Eli is going to turn out to be spectacular.  “He is going to make someone a really lovely horse,” she exclaimed when telling us about him.  He certainly has the pedigree and movement to make a spectacular sport horse.  For his jog video he moved quietly with just a lead rope under his chin, and showed a big fluid stride, with an impressive loft and reach at the trot. That movement had our volunteers excited about his potential in the dressage arena or in the dressage phase of eventing. 

Price: $3500

Contact: Alice Taylor 585-314-4975 (text or call)

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