Meet one of our up and coming horses “Mook” (ASB registered name: Culzean)

 

This horse is truly that one in a million thoroughbred! He is approx 16.1hh, 9 years old, dark bay gelding. The temperament on this horse has to be seen to be believed – he is fantastic on trails and roads, doesn’t care about crazy barking dogs, or even tractors and windmills! He has a cool calm head at all times and is a fantastic ride.

 

Mook is a fairly lazy boy who happily plods along behind the other horses when out and about, but if you gee him up, he’ll also lead the pack without being spooky or silly. He has 3 beautiful paces and is a very comfortable cruisy ride. No buck – even when the other horses canter off in front of him.

 

You can take him from a full gallop, back to a calm walk with just a gentle ask on his mouth, he doesn’t get fizzy after going for a hoon – and will go back to his usual ploddy self.

We’ve taken him through industrial areas around machinery and he never bats an eyelid. We can’t speak highly enough of this horse.

 

Mook retired from racing at the age of 8 due to a bone chip in his leg and was going to be sent to the knackery as the trainer wasn’t able to “fix it”. All he needed was a good 6 months rest and now he’s fighting fit! We’ve really been testing him out on that leg and so far – no problems at all.

 

Mook is still undergoing assessments but we hope to be able to offer this beautiful horse up for adoption in the coming month/s. Stay tuned…….

 

(Mook’s full time carer and owner at present is Emma who is one of the senior partners here at Horses with Hope).

 

At this stage it is too early to advise on an adoption fee for Mook but once he’s finished his assessments we will then update this page with further details….