Princess the starved

Princess was part of a lot of seventy five Morgans offered at a special sle in Hermiston, Oregon. I had to go and look for I had always liked the looks of Morgans. I loved the story of Justin Morgan had a horse and had read tlhe book and seen the movie.
Bonnie one of my dearest friends was just back from back east. We were going together in the car. I did not intend to bring one home. So the truck stayed in Walla Walla. My trailer was up on Weston Mountain at a friends.
The babies were about a foot short of what they ought to have been and the mares had most of their mains and tails missing. They all showed ribs and were busy eating the hay they had been given. The young stallions were very thin and the geldings were too. They all looked pretty starved. They all looked like they had been living like mustangs with long hooves and wild frightened eyes.
We sat and watched as the babies went through. People seemed to be willing to buy them and most were going for four hundred or more. They were also going through in lots rather then as individuals. I had decided to try and purchase one of the babies but had no sucess with that. So we decided I would buy a mare that would be Bonnies horse after I got three foals out of her. We bid on several before we got Princess.
Princess seemed to hate people in general. I left Bonnie to deal with her and started on my long trip after Truck and Trailer. We also had purchased a halter from someone there. I had learned from working with other range horses and mustangs that while we had her confined we might as well get a jump on it. Bonnie managed to get things going with the help of some cowboys and had a halter on her when I got back.
I got my first good look at our new adventure and wondered if it would be worth it. I knew Bonnie had been working really had with this mare while I was gone.
We got her to the pasture and went to let her out. She came out of the trailer like it was on fire. She sure could move. She then imediately broke her halter so we now had a mostly wild horse in the field. I had to have a friend rope her so we could start working on her again. She wore a thirty foot drag rope for a year. She is the hardest horse I have ever seen to tame. It seems to cut cross grain to her heart of hearts. She has never been a great saddle horse either for that matter. Bonnie went off to medical school in Mexico and I kept working with Princess. I did get my first foal out of her about a year later and got her started under saddle. She has beautiful gaits and a wonderful way of telling you everything that is happening in the woods when you rider her. She has never been a particularly willing horse though. She has only bucked me off once. That was really her daughters fault who ramed her in the flank with her head while bing ponied as a yearling. That mare makes most bucking horses at the rodeo look tame. She did drop me gently over her head and I was barely bruised. She even came back for me after taking the saddle for a bit more of a ride. She was wonderful in the woods and has the best hooves and feet of any horse I have ever owned. Which is a good thing since most horse shoers will not touch her. I have had her since 1992 so she is getting older now. She has created five of the most beautiful babies with my stallion of which I still have one. Pictures of Jasper and Diamond are in mother baby. Here are some of her other foals

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