Meet Juan, a Dutch Warmblood 13 yr old Bay gelding. He's a cute mover with an adorable jump, and a huge floating stride to boot! He's done it all, from indoors to big derbies :)

(Sorry for the bad picture, it was all I grabbed! He's also looking a bit mangey right now, and needs a good body clip and his mane seriously needs to be pulled)

http://s1374.photobucket.com/user/HEEVelveteen/media/IMG_6123_zps0d7q8jub.jpg.html

About 2 weeks ago my trainer brought Juan to our farm for me to try. We hacked him a bit on the first day, and saw that he was a little off in his hind end. So we decided to let him chill for the night and do some jumping in the morning to see if maybe he had just banged himself in the trailer and it would resolve itself. So the next day we jumped him in our GP field at 7:30am, and without a lunge or anything, this horse went and fearlessly jumped over all of our solid XC jumps and some big liverpools. Without a peek. We were all stunned, but we're worried because he was still a bit off. So we then sent him to my trainers barn for him to get injected and checked out by our vet, and sure enough after a little work, he was perfectly sound. Trainer brought him to the horse show we were at for the past 2 weeks, and I showed him this weekend. My trainer wanted to start with something super small, like a 2'6'' class. Unfortunately we couldn't find a 2'6" Hunter class, so he threw me in a little jumper class and just told me to go slow and pretend I was equitating lol. Mind you, this horse is a Hunter. He has never been In a jumper ring. And this horse carted me around without a care in the world. Go Juan.

I'll try and update this next weekend with some riding vids :)

(Also really pleased with the name we chose LOL)