Pretty Shield (Sasha)
SMR 3977 ~~ 14 hands
(Chato’s Shadow x Shinie Eyes)
Born 8/3/1999 at Caballos de Destinos in Pringle, SD, bred by Sharron Scheikofsky.
Sasha is available to a good home. She is quite sensitive, knows natural horsmanship type ground work, lunging, ground ties, loads well, handles vet work and trimming. She has had 120 days training with two trainers, the most recent being Kitty Lauman several years ago. She will need retraining with her undersaddle work. Along with her being sensitive and watchful, she tends to be anxious when alone. She needs the chance to bond with someone and gain trust. Sasha is sweet and wants to please. I would love to see her with an intermediate or advanced owner that would give her a chance to see what she can do. She has a great, moving out trot and a very smooth looking canter (video at the bottom of this post). She would certainly have the soundness and stamina for endurance. She’s not taken a bad step while I have had her. She’s done great ponied out on roads, over bridges, with traffic, bicycles and on trails. She is up to date on shots, deworming, trimming and dental work. She has two blemishes, a scar on her back (shown in photos below) and a dent in he neck. My vet thinks that it might have been an abscess from vaccination. He legs are straight and clean.
She is very nicely bred to foundation SMR stock and could be an excellent addition to a broodmare band. Sasha is heterozygous for LWO and SB-1. She likely also has splash in the mix, but there is no test for that yet. She is a striking grulla medicine hat with two ice blue eyes, and a long, silky double mane.
If you are interested in talking with me about Sasha, please email. Price is negotiable to the right home and would only be to recover some of her rescue costs.
Yesterday, I gave Sasha her first soapy bath and took photos. She stood really well to be hosed. It was clear that someone had trained her on this. The barn owner was using a tractor in the area, tilling and moving compost for a new garden bed. Once Sasha saw it and had a jump, she settled down and was fine with the noise and movement. We just had to stay out of his way.
Somehow I ended up with a lot more good photos of her near side and very few of her off side. She’s not as good at posing as Lily is, so I just took tons of photos and culled to a few good ones. I can ask Lily to stop when she’s 20 feet away and she’s stand there and pose. I haven’t had Sasha long enough for her to know that she is a constant photo subject.
Here are all the beauty shots, with a few of my Lily thrown in at the end.
After her photo session and a nice trot in hand down the road to dry off, we tried her out in a new pasture with two geldings. There were a few discussions between them and the two next door, but it does seem that she may work out well there. She’ll have a bit more access to grazing than in Lily’s dry lot. When I put a horse in a new pasture, I walk them around the fence line first, so we did that after the initial nose touching. Then I did a little work with her over the obstacles in the pasture. She knows how to ground tie too. This photos was just before I turned her loose.
There are some interesting herd interactions and body language to watch. Sasha is eventually yielding, but she’s also doing some dominance posturing as well, almost snaking with her head down at times.
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