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Breed: Thoroughbred Gender: Gelding Age: 2 Height: 15.0hh Color: Dark Bay Disciplines: Endurance, Trail Riding, Western Pleasure, Driving, English Pleasure, Companion, Ranch Horse/Versatility, Western Performance, Working Cow Events, Other Adoption fee: $750 Location: Second Stride — Crestwood, KY Growing. Currently 16+ hands. He will be tall! He was not suitable for racing due to right knee arthritis and bone spurs. He will be suitable for flatwork, mid-level dressage, pleasure riding and trails once mature. He will be started under saddle in the fall of 2026. "Abe" is a sensitive and gentle rising two year old who loves attention and quiet play. He walks nicely on a lead rope, loves to be groomed, and is polite during stall cleaning and feed times. Abe has developed quite a bit of common sense and flexibility in the past six months - he accepts changes in routine, changes of stall and pasture, and changes to his turnout group very easily. He is very well socialized and can be trusted to welcome new farm additions. In potentially tense situations like extreme weather or nearby construction, he listens well. Abe is currently doing well standing for the farrier (will lean or put his foot down once or twice in a session) and taking short farm walks without a friend. He ties with supervision, accepts fly spray well and enjoys being sponged with cool water, but still is working on being bathed with a hose. Abe already does well walking over poles and other small obstacles. He is very good at responding to gentle requests to move back and to the side. He likes vocal cues - focuses best when talked to. He will be an engaged and willing partner for groundwork and in-hand dressage, responding to the lightest cues. We anticipate him being exactly the same under saddle, so long as his start is quiet and unrushed. Abe gets along with a range of personalities. He currently turns out with two other two-year-olds but he does well with gentle older companions as well. Abe has an overbite and drops some grain when he eats. Feeding him on a clean rubber mat allows him to clean up the grain that falls on the floor. Or, if his grain is soaked he does not drop it. He holds weight easily. Abie's prominent upper lip is very strong and sensitive and he loves to groom and massage his equine and human friends. Abe is available now for the right adopter. He will need a patient, experienced and knowledgeable adopter who has prior experience training youngsters. "Abe" was castrated in late May 2024. He will have a waived adoption fee to a responsible adopter. Unnamed - OTTB Profile - Equineline Second Stride is a rescue; this horse is for adoption, not for sale. Message Second Stride here on tacktack to ask about 24 Gulf and the adoption process. Rescue website: https://www.secondstride.org Original listing on My Right Horse: https://www.myrighthorse.org/available-horses/gelding-thoroughbred-from-prospect-24-gulf