Who is looking for a quality, athletic colt to love you?
Steele Riptide is looking for a human that wants to win.
This Colt is bred to be a winner and has the temperament and disposition and temperament to be your best friend.
His sire Aur Aquavit was my best friend. Aquavit was my trail horse, my endurance horse, my first pick to move rank meat cows, my lesson's horse, and my herd sire.
Aquavit carried me across the Tevis finish line at 20 years old.
His dam RC Remington Rose was a saddle horse, trail horse, camping horse, and driveway babysitter.
She is the daughter of REMINGTON STEELE and her dam was RushCreek Quista.
Riptide is a little over 15.1 and still growing at 4 years old.
As big as he is he is still compact with body/heart depth to match his leg length and a nice short back. He is strong and well made, a three circle horse. Excellent bone and joint, good withers, well sprung ribs, above average trot.
I have sat on his back; he doesn't care, I started both of his parents neither one has ever bucked or reared or kicked, and I expect he will be the same. Rip stands tied like he's waiting on a government check. Loads in a trailer like the farms on fire. Is easy to catch, halter, and deal with.
He currently lives on a place with mares about 20 feet away, he is nose to nose with geldings and colts. He spent his first 4 years in a big field with another Colt stretching his legs and playing.
He does not pace, he does not chew, he has no vices.
If he hollers too much and I lean out the door and yell his name he will quiet. If he does not he gets to practice standing tied and he's definitely quiet when he's standing tied because that's the only way get untied 🤣
He has never been beaten on and always been respected although he himself has quite a bit of respect for the end of a cotton rope. He knows how to back off his feed pile out of respect so you can throw his hay and will only approach with happy ears.
He has been raised with the idea that he will have to be a respectable well behaved stallion, I am very strict about the rules but I am also very fair and easy to understand.
I will only sell him intact to somebody who has experience handling stallions because it's much easier to screw them up than it is to make them a good horse.
I think he would make a great contribution to the breeding world, but he would also be an absolute competitor.
Looking for his ideal home as he doesn't actually have to go.
I'm kind of a one horse girl. I'm looking more for another best friend to compete on and doing my thing more than I'm looking to run a program with multiple stallions.
What he has working against him to me is: he's a lil too big/tall for me, and his brother looks so much more like his sire 💕
Perfect human or bust.
Price depends on expectation divided by ability to prove my program and his brother that I'm keeping, minus your reputation and referrals.
His siblings are just getting out on the endurance trail now and doing well.