Tex- the first day

Last Thursday, April 9, 2009, I traded my crazy playday horse, Spiderman, for Texolena Outlaw, a 2-year old grullo registered quarter horse.

Tex came to me from a young lady named Anna Bear from Killeen, TX. Anna had acquired him from a man down the road from her barn who could no longer afford to feed him. The man said he fed them "a flake now and then." Well, I'm imagining that flake may have been once a week, because this guys is severely underweight for a 2 year old.

Anna found my ad for "playday horse for sale or trade" on craigslist.

The trade was a known risk for me, but I was ready to move on from Spiderman. I liked the fact that Tex was already registered, his color was nice, his conformation didn't look bad in the pictures, he had a consistent strong cow-bred bloodline, http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/texolena+outlaw
and Anna described his disposition as very laid back. I had to commit sight unseen to the trade, because it's a 2 hour drive between our house and Killeen, and Anna had to use someone else's trailer to transport.


Here are the only pictures that I had to look at before making the decision to take him. They're from his craigslist ad.




I had been trying to sell Spiderman for nearly a year.
Here is picture of husband riding Spiderman, who I had owned for 2 years. He was sweet on the ground, but competetive in the saddle, and was always a fight when it came to pleasure riding.


When I finally made my decision and convinced husband to say yes around 11:30 pm, I couldn't sleep. I stayed up until 1 am looking up his pedigree.

Anna and her horse trainer/friend/employer, Amber, arrived at our place around 10:45 am on Thursday. When he stepped off the trailer, my first thoughts were 1. "Oh boy, he's tiny." and 2. "Oh boy, that hernia is NOT tiny." He has an umbilical hernia, not unusual for young horses, that must be fixed with surgery. However, surgery to fix the hernia needs to be combined (for health and financial purposes) at the same time as he loses his manlihood.

Amber rode Spiderman in our arena while Tex hung out in the stall, and by 12:30, It was a done deal. This is a picture of me with Tex and Anna with Spiderman, the horse I traded (an even trade, might I crazily add). They loved Spiderman, and I, although not quite sure what I had done, did not regret committing to this little guy. TM