HOSS
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I have a 3 year old Walkaloosa filly that I have had at the trainer for a couple of months. She is a big (16 hands), flashy girl with a HUGE motor. The trainer was trying to wear her down in the round pen to take the edge off of her. The round pen has about 8" of sand in it. Well 7 hours and 3 people later she finally tired up enough to stop. The trainer said that in her 20 years of training horses she has never had a horse that had this kind of motor. She hardly sweats or breathes hard after what would kill most trail horses around here. On top of the motor she has almost perfect confirmation and according to the trainer she is "scarey athletic and extremely well coordinated". Her problem is she thinks. You can see the wheels turning in her head. She doesn't respond to pressure like a horse that instinctively moves away from it. She thinks about what she wants to do and does it. Sometimes she is cooperative and other times she just locks up and refuses to do anything. She is so strong that even I at 215 lbs can hardly turn her. I am at that point of deciding if it is worth continuing or just selling her. I think she would make a great endurance mount. She was born outside and roamed over a 75 acre parcel with pasture, woods, creeks etc.. Nothing like that spooks her. She was raised with cattle, dogs, deer, tractors, 4 wheelers and the like so she is not spooky and can negotiate fallen logs, water and rocks like a goat. If I invested the time into more training is there a particular type of horsey people that I should market her towards? She tends to take up with one person at a time and she prefers women. She is not mean and doesn't bite or kick and she has no vices like cribbing or pacing. She is just headstrong and has the physical body to back up her stubborness.