Grammys Corgi Country

Hello again. We have two horses now. The first one is Cory (Coronado King) who is half Peruvian Paso Horse and half Appaloosa Mustang, and the other one is Wind Dancer who is an Arab (possibly mix, though he looks pretty much full Arab… we aren’t sure because he is a rescue horse that was given to us.)

Today I will introduce you to Cory. I’ve had him since he was around 3 years old and he is 22 ½ now. His mom was a 16 hand Appaloosa colored mustang mare that had been brought in from a BLM (Bureau of Land Management) round-up. The lady that had acquired her had a Peruvian Paso Stallion (which are usually a fairly small breed of under 15 hands). I gather that the lady had run into some hard times and when my girlfriend first saw Cory, he was almost 3 years old but looked like he was only a couple of years old because he was all head and bones. She took him and started to get him straightened up, but already had to many horses/ponies, so she sold him to me for the amount she had spent on him by that point.

I finished bringing him up to full health and trained him. He is very smart and totally gentle. He was pure joy to ride because Peruvian Horses have some of the smoothest gaits in the world. One of the classes they have at Peruvian Horse Shows to show that the horses are smooth is to put a glass of wine on the rider’s head on the flat hats of the traditional garb and ride them at full speed. The gaits of the Peruvian Paso Horse are walk, Paso Llano (four beat lateral movement in even cadence) and Sobreandando (which is the same four beat lateral gait but accelerated)… sort of a running walk type of gait. Cory does the Peruvian gaits naturally, but will also trot sometimes and will lope as well, but with the high head carriage of the Peruvian.

Since I hurt my hip and back several years ago, I haven’t been able to ride, but my son and grandkids still ride him some… I use him to teaching riding to my youngest grandkids. The kids also like to see him do some of his tricks, and he knows what “no” means and will shake his head sometimes to tell me “no” when he doesn’t want to do something and then we have a discussion, which he loses and grumbles about.

Tomorrow, I will fill you in on Dancer. I wish you joy for your day.

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