Gentle: Sweet leisure/dressage mare

I am looking for a new home for my incredibly sweet and affectionate mare Gentle. I am selling her due to a hand injury that I have been dealing with for a year now.

• Name: Gentle
• Year of birth: 2011 (15 years old)
• Sex: Mare
• Height at withers: 1.63 m
• Pedigree: Broere Valdez
• Discipline: Leisure / Dressage / All-rounder

Versatility in training:
Gentle is a horse that thoroughly enjoys variety. She can be ridden for leisure as well as actively trained in dressage. Groundwork, poles, lungeing, long-reining or a small jump also suit her very well.

Suitable for different riders:
• Leisure rider: If you ask for little, she goes around well-behaved and neatly. She listens well, is nice in the hand and responsive to the aids.
• Experienced rider / active training: Get started and much more comes out. She can then show quite a few dressage exercises, whether perfect or not, and go nicely. The more you ask, she gives more.
• She is well accustomed to traffic and is not bothered by large tractors or roaring engines. However, she can sometimes be a bit distracted when a lot is happening around her.
• I do not find her suitable for a beginner or very young rider.

Character
In terms of character, she is an absolute jackpot. She loves grooming, cuddling, walking and washing. In handling she is super well-behaved.

Physical point of attention (dressage):
Gentle naturally places her left hind leg slightly outside the mass. If you ride recreationally, you will not notice this at all. If you start training-oriented work, she needs to step this leg further underneath. This means you do have to ride her forward to maintain the correct bend and keep the shoulder in place. She is not bothered by this herself and is not lame from it!

Health and management:
Gentle has a grass and pollen allergy.
• She can go out on grass. Preferably naturally grown grass instead of cow grass. With us she is more often in the paddock.
• With her current medication (inhaler), a well-fitting fly mask (possibly also during hacking out), her symptoms are well controlled. At her previous stable location, due to a different location, she had virtually no symptoms.

She was fully clinically and radiographically inspected 5 years ago. Re-inspection is allowed at buyer's expense.

If interested, with questions or to request videos, you can contact us via reply, PM or phone. Gentle can be viewed in De Mortel.