Candy is a 20’s year old Grade Paint Mare, currently located at my friend's farm in Deep Run, NC. She was bought at auction by a rescue that I once worked for doing evaluations, horse training, and farrier work. Sometime before this, Candy was physically abused by someone (it seems most likely a man, as she is nervous around most men unless they are calm, gentle, and patient) who seemed to train using abusive methods. From what I can tell, she was originally trained using Classical Dressage and Centered Riding Techniques, based on how much more calm she is when using these methods. We have owned her since 2015 and she has come a long way from the frightened mare that you couldn’t saddle or trim her hooves.

Candy has been my 14-year-old daughter’s horse since 2021. Previous to that, I used her in my lesson program for beginners. She is a sweet mare who loves attention and trail riding! She adores babies of any species and is wonderful for children, but she needs a calm, gentle, and patient intermediate to advanced rider for adults, especially men. She rides western primarily, but may be able to be ridden english as well. She walks, jogs, trots and canters in both directions under saddle and on a lunge line. She ties, lunges, bathes, clips, loads and trailers. As a professional farrier, I recommend that she is either kept barefoot, wears hoof boots for riding, or has glue on shoes as she has typical paint horse hooves, which means that they chip easily and do not have enough hoof wall for nail on shoes. She needs a patient farrier that is willing to work with her due to her past traumas.

I am only selling her because I am a single mother and the economy will not allow me to continue owning horses at this time. My hope is that someone will care lease her. If someone buys her, I would want to buy her back for her retirement. In either situation, I would hope to get her back in somewhere between 2-5 years. If either situation works out and she is close to where I live in Chester, SC, I would also be willing to provide free work to trim and/or apply glue on shoes (leasee/owner to provide the shoes) due to her farrier anxiety. My 14-year-old daughter is heartbroken that we can't keep her at this time, and if she is close by, she would love to be able to visit her from time to time.

Please feel free to text me at (803) 633-5220 with any questions. I'm a police officer and work night shift, so texting is very much preferred as I sleep during the day and if I'm at work, I may need to respond around responding to calls.