Ok, he is pretty ugly now, but he is also cute. I hope he's gonna be a beautiful gelding, when he is full grown! He is only two years old after all, but he isn't as spindly as I feared, when I was told that someone has donated a two year old yearling as company for our training horses.
I think he is what we call a pleasant surprise. I'm very excited to figure out how much he will grey out, and if he will become a almost white grey with age. He is a Black (Grey) Splashed White btw., but has White Suppression, so the splash-gen is only showed with his sky-blue eyes.
Anyhow, it's storytime: Gammelsmoelf didn't have a name when a Animal-Resque-Organization found him in an old barn, only with a big and very skinny warmblood stallion to keep him company. They had been in there a while, and Smoelfy was so very skinny (can you even imagine? He is so fat now, lol!).
Inside the main house of the stable they found Smoelfy's owner dead, a very old man died of a heart-attack. At first, because Smoelfy was so skinny and so very dirty and grey, the ARO thought they had found a very old horse, which is why they named him Gammelsmoelf (read: Papa Smurf in Danish). But then a vet looked at his teeth and decided he was more like two years old than an old horse.
The other horse they couldn't safe, because she was all too skinny, and had to be put down. But Smoelfy survived, and was given to us, because they had a hard time finding a home for a Shetlandspony. They also gelded him, to make it easier to find a home for him. That home they found in Kilborn Training Center.
Not being ready to be broken in we first declined him, but when we realized he could be company for stallions, because he wasn't dominant in his behavior, but at the same time didn't take shit from anybody. So here we are, month later, and we are training the little gelding to be well-manered and a good pony. He is great company for some of our horses in training, and loves being groomed!
