- Chestnut
- Mare
- 10 years
- 16.2 hands
- Allrounder / Riding club horse/ Eventer/ Show horse
- Golden genuine temperament!
- Schools beautifully on the flat
- Jumps everything asked of her
Candy’s Hero is an absolutely gorgeous 16.2h 10 year old Irish Sports Horse mare. For sale on behalf of her owner.
Candy is one in a million who has so much class, quality and potential with the most amazing temperament to match. She is a real stunner with a large white blaze, 4 white socks and a flaxen mane and tail making her stand out from the crowd. She is a very well-bred registered Irish Sport Horse directly by the famous Sligo Candy Boy, with 5 generations of pedigree recorded. She is the perfect quality stamp of a horse combining elegance with a nice robust leg in each corner. She is a very desirable type who would suit a wide audience of riders from competent teenagers coming off ponies, to adults alike. She has excellent conformation, is blemish free and has straight movement. She has been a very successful show horse in riding horse classes in Ireland, where she has attended lots of County shows including the Royal Dublin Show with success. As well as being a successful show horse she has proven she is the full package to excel across all riding disciplines which makes her the perfect alrounder/eventer. She has the most amazing temperament and attitude making her a real yard favourite; she definitely isn’t a typical chestnut mare, she is the complete opposite!
Candy schools beautifully on the flat, she has a lovely relaxed way of going with super movement and suppleness. She has three very good paces that are super comfy to sit to. She is soft in the hand and works very nicely up to the contact from between leg and hand. She is ridden in a snaffle for every discipline with a lovely mouth. She is nicely forward going to ride and responsive to the riders aids. She is very straight forward to ride and isn’t at all spooky. She is schooling novice/ elementary level at home with the potential to go higher than this. She has competed successfully at unaffiliated preliminary and novice level dressage with her previous owner in Ireland and was placed with high 60 percent scores. She is more than ready to affiliate and work her way through the levels BD. She would be a very straight forward dressage horse who is very ridable, trainable and very dependable. She would also excel at riding club level dressage as well as Team Quest.
Candy loves her jumping and makes a nice shape over a fence. She is forward going into a fence and is very honest and genuine to jump. She is very bold and jumps all fillers and water trays first attempt confidently. She knows her job well and will go on a short or long stride and help her rider out. She is very ridable around a course of fences and nicely balanced around tight turns and does flying changes where necessary. She has competed at unaffiliated sj up to 100cm with ease with her previous owner. She has scope to jump higher tracks if her rider desired to and also affiliate BS. She has also done lots of arena eventing wheres he was regularly placed in Ireland. She would also excel at riding club level and be perfect to take on jumping clinis/camps etc.
Candy is equally as bold over xc jumps. She is a real xc machine, point and aim type who is very genuine. She really enjoys going xc and has plenty of pace to make the time at events. She jumps everything asked of her including ditches and water complexes. She is a very straight forward ride and takes her rider into the fences nice and confidently. She really gives her rider confidence as she is very genuine and loves her jumping and doesn’t get strong or silly. She has done lots of xc schooling and hunter trails where she has been placed. She is a very honest dependable horse who always gets round clear and is lots of fun. She has also done a few unaffiliated ODE’s at 90cm which she excelled at. She has so much potential to excel as an eventer as she is very good at all 3 disciplines and has a very ground covering gallop where she would easily make the xc time. I can see her making a fabulous grass roots eventer as well as being very competitive up through the levels.
Candy is lovely to hack both alone and in company. She is very sensible and confident in her own skin. She is a superb lead horse but will also go in behind ect. She is good in traffic. She is very sensible in open spaces and not at all sharp or silly. She will go out for miles on her own and give her rider so much fun! She will also go out in a group where she is very mannerly and will canter happily in any order. She has been on pleasure rides which she loves. She would be very well suited to someone wanting to combine pleasure rides with competing, or equally just one or the other. She would be the ideal type to take on horse holidays as she is very well behaved to ride at new places and just has so much fun to offer someone.
Candy has a great kind temperament. She puts a smile on your face every day. She loves people and will make someone an amazing best friend. She is always good to catch and lead in. She loves all the attention of being groomed and pampered. She is a delight to handle in all ways. She lives in and out and is happy be turned out next to or in with other horses. She is a very settled girl that gives other horses on the yard confidence. She is the type that you can leave out on her own and bring all the other horses in and she will just be calmly standing there unfazed. She is great to shoe, wash and clip. She loads perfectly (single handed) and travels like a dream. She really is such a genuine honest horse who deserves the best of homes.
Candy is the ultimate alrounder that everyone is looking for. She can turn her hoof to any job and is very versatile. She would be very suitable for a competent teenager coming off ponies. She would also suit an adult wanting to go out competing in any discipline and have fun together. She would also be a fabulous event horse as she has bags of talent across all 3 disciplines. she would also suit a home wanting to do all riding club activities and hacking/ pleasure rides.
Only for sale due to her owners sudden change in circumstance. Lots more photos and videos available via WhatsApp.
Based in Ramsey Peterborough. Please send me a message on WhatsApp or call Katherine on 07460 820294