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King's Partee Goer
("Teego")

Sometimes you find treasures in the strangest circumstances. We needed another trailer and saw one advertized for sale that caught our attention. After a complicated chain of events, convenient to neither the seller or us, we drove to the next county and in an instant I knew we didn't want it. The seller had made some accomodations to meet with us so when she told us she was also selling her quarter horse, I felt compelled to look at him in case I ran across someone looking for such a horse.

What we found in a 12x12 boxstall was the sweetest little quarter horse we ever saw. He was thin from lack of exercise and his feet looked pretty bad, but he had an uncanny intelligence and pleasantness about him.

The seller explained that she had a very difficult pregnancy as well as problems afterwards so Teego had been pretty much been kept in this boxstall for about 18 months, with the barn owner turning him out into a small arena a couple of times per week. The seller had come to grips with the reality that she wasn't going to be able to do anything with Teego anytime soon, and it wasn't right to just keep him in pent up.

Bud Logan, the barn owner (a well known western trainer) suggested we saddle him up and try him out. We did, I got on, and the only place to ride was a large turnout which had several loose horses in it. Teego did beautifully in spite of his lack of use and a number of inquisitive equines pestering us. We came back a couple of days later with a trailer, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Playing with Tank, the mustang

Teego had been shown western and was pretty successful before his unscheduled layoff. After we had him a year, and English rider, whose's horse was being boarded here in layup for a broken leg, asked to work with him. She would ride him over to a nearby dressage barn and they ended up beating out the TBs and warmbloods for year end high point schooling level dressage.

Teego prefers "bridleless" riding and most often we just ride him in a halter. Out on trail where we dismount on steep downgrades, I can count on Teego walking alongside me without my having to hang onto his reins.

Teego doesn't like boxstalls any more so we keep him in a small pasture with 3 other geldings. On work mornings I get up to feed at 4:45 AM, and when I make the feed run, I turn Teego out of his pasture for a bucket of supplements. At the end of the feed run, I give a whistle and he follows me back into the pasture. I never need to halter him or use a rope.

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