She's in Staffordshire so looking anywhere in the Midlands or the surrounding area.
She needs 15.2hh - 16hh and doesn't want to do much more than happy hacking with having two small kids, no time for anything else.
We both had horses as kids but she hasn't ridden regularly for 10 years. She has been walk, trot, cantering and doing little jumps when she has been trying them out though so she's still quite handy.
No a 4 year old isn't right for her, my point was if she was on a yard with people to help I often think its best to get them young and untainted! If I was buying again I would do that as my fab RI/YO would help me every step of the way.
Oh, another thing. My mum went with her last night to see a horse. It was 13, mare and used for hacking and some hunting in the winter. When they got there, with the rug on Mum thought it looked poor but when they took the rug off you could see its spine, hips and most of its ribs. It had been clipped but not ridden for 5 months...? Mum reckons it was clipped for hunting and probably went lame then just turned out all winter with clearly not enough food. The lady dismissed the fact it was way too thin saying a few weeks at grass and she would be fine. This was on a professional yard, the women was big in the local hunting and Pony Club community. My mum was so disgusted she had to go and sit in the car as she was so upset. The women rode it, my sister refused to get on. How can people do this??!! Are they blind? It was either severely under fed or it had something wrong with it. My sister promptly left and called the RSPCA
I'd go for something young and unspoilt.
