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Cover Girl

 

 

An affectionate and child loving 18 year old Thoroughbred mare

 

Due to the arthritis in her left hock, "Covey" has been retired from jumping and showing and is not living her days happily as a walk/trot horse. While she provided me with an adequate challange and plenty of experience in the Hunter ring, she fits the description of a child's baby-sitter perfectly. Covey is just as eager to be spoiled rotten by anyone, especially kids, and pack around beginner riders as she is to...well, pretty much do anything else! Her arthritis does not seem to be causing her pain because she can go out in the pastures, (with her friends Celeste, Willow, and Breeze) kick up her heels, and keep up with all of those youngin's as easy as pie. She is, however, on a Glucosamine/Chrondatin supplement called Corta-Flx which comes in a liquid form. It seems to help her quite a bit and this would *definately* be something she would want to be given in her new home. Exercise and movement is very good for arthritis, and so she would need adequate turn-out time in a nice paddock. Right now the horses get turned out about a minimum of 6 hours a day unless awful weather does not allow it.

As you can see in the picture, she put up with a gimpy teenager leading her around :) She never takes advantage of beginners and is safe to be left grazing or walking with even the most novice of horse people. (My mother can attest to that!) Covey has very correct conformation with an extremely nice neck (at least I think so...), her coat shines in the summer and is just furry enough in the winter, she's an easy keeper and is not hard on her blankets or other equiptment,  she has never had problems with her (symmetrical) feet, and thanks to a careful care regimine, her once hock length tail nearly touches the ground. hehe

She has been trailered in all sorts of situations. She deals well with both ramp and step up trailers and has no apparent dislike of either straight load or slant load. Covey stands very patiently for the farrier and is good with her shots and vet check ups, though I must admit she is *not* a big fan of the tube wormers! All of her shots and vacinations are current, with a recent (April 12th, 2000) coggins test preformed, she has also received the intra-nassal Strangles vaccination. Covey is so....she's just so incredibly perfect to me. She is absolutely gorgeous, even more so in person when you can see the lovely calm, quiet, and inquisitive look in her eyes. She's good around foals...mares in foal...young horses...other mares...heck, she's even been around a stud colt during breeding season and not had a problem! If you can't already tell :) I could simply go on forever and ever and ever about all of Covey's wonderful traits.

 

Pictured is Cover Girl and her (now 14 year old) Hannoverian cross colt, Lovat.

Some Honest Facts

 

Look at how much this poor thing puts up with :)

This is a picture from Halloween of '98. For the horse show held at out barn, my friend and I decided to dress up as a cowboy and an Indian. Of course, we had to make this as elaborate as possible soo...We chose to use colored hair spray to turn a chestnut and a bay into a Paint and an Appaloosa! I rode Covey in a ring filled with horses and "scary" costumes with nothing but a halter and some leather straps with clips on the end. Heck, we even had a rope around us to complete the look of being captured by the cowboy.

 

A happy horse owner and her two End of the Season awards which could never have been earned without Covey!!

 

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