Rosa has many talents. Here she is standing on a country lane rearing up. One of my favorite gypsy horse shots!
Rosa
5 year old driving mare in foal
Here's Rosa! Rosa is a mare from "Jim's good stallion" that I have known for a few years now. She's one of those that is one of the boys' "using mares", so I didn't actually expect ever to be able to "get my hands on her". Well, this guy found a new mare that he loves and wants to get going, so he is willing to part with his gal Rosa for the time being. Rosa has been a using mare in the truest sense for the past 2-3 years. He drove her to work and back each day for most of last year and the year before, leaving her on a chain by the roadside to graze during the day when he was working, and driving her home at the end of the day afterward. Her owner didn't and still doesn't have a car, so his horses are his main transportation. Rosa is a fun drive, she will go all day long if you put her into her snappy trot. She's well used on the roads of course, and isn't a "dead-head" driver, that you constantly have to keep after to keep them moving. Rosa has been two years in a row driven to the biggest gypsy horse fair, 60 miles from where she lives. She has done this 120 mile round trip both pulling her wagon on her own, and with a side-liner horse to help out on the hills. She's a good sport, and such a willing worker. Rosa is a great driver, and has been ridden a bit. She can be worked at riding a bit more before she flies if anyone wants her for that. Rosa is decent sized, about 14.3 - 15 hands. She's very sweet, and such a "people horse". She loves to work.
Rosa hasn't been tested, but I am quite sure she is homozygous for the tobiano pattern (tons of ink spots). As a HUGE bonus, Rosa is in foal to The Lion King for a 2004 foal! This will be a beautiful, size-y foal that will be homozygous for the tobiano color like it's parents!
Price: $20,000 thru both mare quarantines
Pictures of Rosa in 2002. - Rosa had a better mane last year. She's lost a bit of it from being on a chain so much over the past year, but it's growing back nicely, and will be as fabulous as it used to be pretty soon.
Rosa has many talents. Here she is standing on a country lane rearing up.
One of my favorite gypsy horse shots!
Rosa hangs out in the road (notice, nobody is holding her) after a long day's
drive to the horse fair. She's a bit tucked up from a long, hot days' work
(actually, this was their 3rd day on the road). She's a good, hard worker
this gal is.
Rosa enjoys the attentions of a few of her fans.
Rosa, and her FULL sister pull the wagon together sometimes. In this
picture, Rosa is acting as the side-liner horse, but it was usually Rosa in the
shafts for this trip. (Interesting genetics for those genetics buffs on
this one - With every breeding of two non-homozygous (heterozygous) tobianos,
you have a 75% chance of getting color,(3 out of 4) and a 25% chance (1 out of
4) of getting black. On your 75% chance of color foals, 25% of those (1 in
3) will be homozygous for that color gene. Well, Rosa and her sister were
foals 2 years in a row for their mother. In Rosa's year, she got the 25%
chance of the homozygous offspring, and in the next year she got the 25% chance
of the black offspring.)
Rosa in the shafts with her sister, now playing the sideliner, go down the 4
lane highway.
Rosa, wet and dirty in September, 2003. She's still cute even when not
prettied-up. She's got such a nice shape to her, and such a pretty face!