Crosswinds Equine Rescue

ARRIVED	August 2010
ADOPTABILITY	APPLICATION IN PROCESS 7/24/2011!!
SPONSORSHIP: (Details below)	FEED: needs a sponsor MEDICAL: needs a sponsor!
BREED/AGE	12 year old (4/11/1999) registered APHA mare, brown/white with tons of chrome
Skills/Training "Report Card"
Overall Health: A	Arrival: excellent, always kept current on medical care, etc. Needs some exercise to improve muscle tone.
Ground Manners: A	Arrival: Rosie is mildly attached to Baby and occasionally is mildly excited if she is led somewhere without him. She is rarely pushy on a lead, and will rarely plant her feet if unsure she wishes to go where you are leading. Summer 2011: Rosie is one of the best behaved horses in the herd. Our most inexperienced volunteers handle her with ease and without worry. She loves to be groomed and scratched and general attention.
Basic Riding Skills: B	Arrival: Rosie had 60 days saddle training, at CWER, 5 years ago. He has done light trail work since. Spring 2011: As time and weather have allowed, Rosie has done several indoor and outdoor rides, doing very well in both cases. Even with weeks off, Rosie is easily tacked up and ridden indoors or out, fences or open field, by an early intermediate rider who has basic confidence. Rosie has very solid 'brakes', and always listens to her rider's hands easily. Rosie rides English and single reins. We do not believe she's ever been taught to neck rein. Rosie has some significant trail experience, including during her original CWER training several years ago. Rosie has very smooth, comfortable and confident walk/trot gaits; she needs more consistent work to develop the balance to canter as comfortably with a rider.
Ideal Career	Rosie is a well built classic bloodlines AQHA mare. Rosie has done quite a bit of trail riding, and would enjoy competitive trail work, ATHA, and similar. She also has some arena work and would likely do well as a hunter under saddle, western pleasure, or similar. We do not see that 'go get em' personality in Rosie that would generally fit for gaming jobs like barrels/poles; however, she would likely be a great 4H horse for fun shows in all areas.
Stall Manners A	Rosie has spent some time stalled previously. At arrival, her manners are good, but she is ready to go back to pasture after eating. Summer 2011 -- Rosie is very easy going and quiet in her stall. she waits to be fed or to work, calmly and without upset. She walks in and out respectfully and easily, and has been groomed and tacked in her stall without any concerns.
Trailering Skills: B	At arrival: Rosie loaded within 10 minutes of beginning asking, and rode well. She was anxious to get off the trailer - especially once Baby was out of sight at this new place -- but still respectful. Summer 2011 update: we have not trailered Rosie since her arrival, but are confident she would load with ease.
Companionship / Pasture Manners A	Rosie has always lived in a nice sized small pasture with other horses, and is very "middle of the herd". She has good pasture manners and would be very unlikely to bite or kick or 'run down' another horse. Rosie has continued in just this vein here, including becoming 'nanny' to Serge the starvation case in spring 2011. She keeps him company, keeps the others from bothering him without being aggressive.
Manageability for Routine and Medical Care B	Arrival -- she dislikes, but is not particularly difficult, for deworming. Vet care -- Rosie has had vaccinations, and was sedated for a dental check, no dental work needed spring 2011. Rosie was very mildly nervous at the needle but behaved very well. NOTE: Rosie had a foal 4 years ago (Molly!), and was exceptionally good for the vet and for handling the baby. This is her only foal, as her owner has had her since she was just a weanling.
Adoption Terms	Available! Rosie has had somewhat limited riding time at CWER; however, she has handled the 'weekend rider' or 'husband horse' type job (pull out of the pasture when you wish to ride; no warm-up, no refresher needed.) Rosie is ready to go home, for an intermediate rider, without additional training time, the fee is $1,200. This may be adjusted as training work continues. If an adopter wishes, we will add an additional 30 days training in their area of interest for a discounted rate of $250.00. Please see our AdoptionQnA pages for details of how to adopt.

Overview: Rosie's human family have had financial challenges, and asked us to take Baby and Rosie and find them new forever homes. Rosie has always been a bit faster and a bit less calmly sure of herself than her rider generally preferred, so she asks us to be sure an adopter knows that she can be fairly quick and mildly flighty at least initially on the trail.

She needs a feed sponsor. The feed sponsor donates to cover the cost of her feed monthly -- $35 per month at this time.

Rosie is registered with strong classic paint and AQHQ lines, and her pedigree is below, courtesy of Allbreedpedigree.com .

Rosie's sire's strong lines obviously go back to the well known McCue line top and bottom, including Buck McCue -- sired by Kingfisher. he also goes back to Leo at least twice, and Bold Venture (TB). Lots of classic quarter horse lines, here!

Rosie's dam's lines have significant amounts of big name thoroughbred blood, including Man O War himself, as well as Sir Gallahad, and, of course, Three Bars.

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