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KNIGHT
6 yr old, 16hh Gelding KNIGHT HAS TEMPORARILY BEEN TAKEN OFF OUR SALES LIST HE WILL BE RELISTED IN MAY   Knight (his barn name is Duncan) (and his exact stick height is 15.3 and 2/3rds of an inch) is a very beautiful, registered APHA, 6 yr old gelding with an utterly gentle, sweet and sensitive personality, and the engine of a thoroughbred. Duncan is NOT spooky, but he is quite shy when he meets new people. He bats his eyelashes and looks away and won't make eye contact until you feed him a carrot, after which he is your devoted and fearless partner. Duncan has an inviolable sense of 'politeness' and space which we love: it means we can spoil him absolutely rotten with carrots and itching sessions and horse-cookies and everything else that normally we fear for our lives to even consider handing out (in the presence of our warmbloods) and yet, no matter HOW many treats Duncan gets, he is still his own completely sweet, gentle, eye-lash batting self, and we can hand him over to little children to load on trailers and Duncan watches his toes very carefully to make sure he doesn't step on them on the way in. 
Under saddle, Duncan is a forward, soft, sensitive ride, light to leg and light to hand. He is just starting lateral work with shoulder-in, leg-yields, etc, and learning to engage and lift. Because of Duncan's sensitivity, his engine, his intelligence, and his ability to learn at the speed of light, we try to go slowly with him, and make him take his time. Duncan is a very 'conscious' horse; he thinks hard about where you are and what you are doing and pays very careful rider-attention. He almost never spooks or is phased by objects or outward things (cats under his feet, dogs chasing the cats under his feet, guns going off (redneck country), UPS trucks arriving, etc), but he's very attentive when you sneeze.
Duncan is quite happy to walk for half an hour on loose reins when you first get on, but what he REALLY wants to do is WORK. Duncan has an engine that never quits. 
Duncan is just starting to learn to jump under saddle, and has fabulous tight-kneed, careful style. OF COURSE he doesn't want to touch the fence, and OF COURSE he wants to get to the other side, and on to the next jump, total Duncan-mentality. And of course, although he wants to go Higher and Onward, we are sticking with the basics over teensy stuff until he's a wee bit bored.  Obviously, what we want for Duncan is a decent rider. Somebody who loves to work, like he does. Who has a huge pocket full of treats, will spoil him rotten, never say a harsh word to him, has quiet, soft hands for his lovely, sensitive mouth, and who will simply laugh at him, when, at the end of a hard training session he says, 'oh my gosh, I'm tired...wait, is that an oxer? can we try it? and how do you do a half-pass? We feel that, due to Duncan's forward thinking style, his level of courage (he loves getting out of the ring and trail-riding), and his jumping technique, he would be a really great event prospect. However, we won't limit him to that. We think that Duncan would love to be a teenager's horse. An amateur's horse. An event horse, a dressage horse. He has good enough movement to be acceptable in any discipline. And the heart to do the rest. Duncan is offered for sale for $5000. Video footage will be updated shortly. 
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