04/16/2022
Stands good for the farrier they said… 😂😂
(EDITOR’S NOTE: In the real world, horses speak volumes but their people relay their histories. Toggenburg’s story was originally told to me ‘from the fence’ by a connection of his. It’s repeated honestly here.
Toggenburg’s seller showed up to clarify. Editing the new info in.
What IS clear from the feedback is good, horse loving people still have wild misconceptions about the life of a bucking horse. BRN exists to provide insight, factual intelligence and promote understanding for this great rare breed of warmblood.
We hope all horse lovers (like us) will take the time to learn and not just show up with pre-conceived ignorance to their work.
ALL dressage isn’t Rollkur. Any horseman knows haters gonna hate — but haters are every horse’s worst enemy. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️)
Second careers for dressage horses don’t usually look like this — Toggenburg made the choice.
After trying to mind every subtle cue and whim of his rider in the dressage ring, one day he said ENOUGH and bucked. Hard! Once is an aberration — twice is multiple vet diagnostics, saddle fitting, more turnout time and fancy farrier visits.
All of that done, the big warmblood still bucked spectacularly earning him the label of a ‘dangerous horse’. Those kind don’t easily find new homes. So, a gelding at risk except for one last wild chance — enter Cowtown Rodeo and Toggenburg’s new career.
Cowtown was invited to bring him to RigginRally, so they loaded the big, royally bred gelding and a little black born-to-buck mare and drove 1,500 miles from New Jersey to Texas, where Toggenburg fit right in with bucking horse royalty with no micromanaged moves, no hard to hold frames, boring braiding time or stately blackened feet.
Toggenburg BUCKS for a living these days and couldn’t be happier.
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