The Trainee's of Wes

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SHOW NAME: Bushfire

BARN NAME: Bush

AGE: 10

GENDER: Gelding

COLOR: Bay

BREED: Brumby

HEIGHT: 16.2 hh

PERSONALITY: Bush is practically his owner. this wild-caught horse is very calm and focused, observent, and hardy. Years of being wild have taught him to be the animal he is today. Around Wes though, he will show affection by nudging and rubbing up against the boy, and sometimes lipping his hair and clothes gently. This horse behaves extremely well for Wes, and the two can do practically anything together. He'll let other people ride, but he's not very tame around them. Wes like to say that he simply taught Bush because Bush wanted to learn; the horse is not actually tame.


HISTORY: Bush was a wild caught creature, and he was "trained" by a famopus Australian trainer in Penning and Roping, but Wes actually snuck out every night to teach him. In later years, Wes taught him the rest of the Western world.

DISCIPLINE: Cattle Roping and Penning, Reining, Trail, Western Pleasure, Cutting

OWNER: Mason Irwin

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SHOW NAME: Aborigine

BARN NAME: Abby

AGE: 13

GENDER: Mare

COLOR: Black

BREED: Australian Stock Horse

HEIGHT: 15 hh

PERSONALITY: Abby may not be your typical mare, but sometimes she can cut it pretty close. All in all, this little girl is bold and smart. She's got a sarcastic streak as well, meaning that when these traits combine, she's the horse that throws you off, then looks at you like, "Well, are you going to laze around on your ass all day?" or will unlock their stall or untie themselves only to stay right where she should be and look at you to say, "And where in hell did you honestly think I was going to go?"


HISTORY: Abby was born and raised on the ranch where Wes worked and bought her from, and trained in Roping and Penning there.


DISCIPLINE: Roping, Penning

OWNER: Wes

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SHOW NAME: Kangaroo Grass

BARN NAME: Joey or Jolly-Boy

AGE: 6

GENDER: Gelding

COLOR: Buckskin

BREED: Brumby

HEIGHT: 15.3 hh

PERSONALITY: Jolly-Boy is young, and has only been learning for about a year to carry a saddle, for he's not like Bush was when it came to learning, and it took some prompting. He;s very shy and flighty, so Wes is very careful when handling him.


HISTORY: Jolly was caught in the wild as a four year old, and for a year wanted to be taught all halter basics, and had been learning saddle basics for a year.


DISCIPLINE: Western Pleasure

OWNER: Wes

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SHOW NAME: Native Oak

BARN NAME: Oak

AGE: Three

GENDER: Gelding

COLOR: Bay

BREED: Australian Stock Horse

HEIGHT: 14.2 HH

PERSONALITY: Oak is a mischievous gelding with a huge heart. He's awful at concentrating though, and gets distracted by the stupidest things. He's not flighty though, things that should scare him, don't. He's very loving and wants to please whoever is working with him, he gets very frustrated when he cannot do something for you. Oak is always up to something, you can't take your eyes off him for long. It may be due to the fact that he's still very young, and he may grow out of it yet. But his nature isn't to hurt, he's very playful and wants to be around humans constantly. He's very much a herd horse too, he likes the company of other horses and is very submissive when it comes to the hierarchy.

To ride, nobody is really fully sure yet. He was broken young and has only been ridden a handful of times since. On those occasions though he proved to be attentive and willing to learn, no real reluctance shown. He's going to make someone a lovely youngster to train up if they have the time for him.

HISTORY: Oak has recently been brought over from Australia. He and a handful of other Stock Horses were bought by a dealer over here. He had asked for many to be brought over, and it was a known fact that he wouldn't pick them all. Sadly, Oak was one of those. He has since been taken from auction to auction, looking for someone to buy him. The fact that the Western discipline isn't as popular in the UK, especially a youngster with little training, he has had little interest. Now he's at the auction in Park, his seller knowing that there are a lot of Western riders attending the college, hoping to be sold to a willing youngster.

DISCIPLINE: Western. Hasn't been trained in anything specific yet.

BUYER: Mason Iriwin