Introduction: Hattie is a fabulous young warmblood with the world at her feet. She is beautifully bred for showjumping, eventing and dressage, by the Champion sire Contango II. Hattie presents an opportunity to buy a well educated, well exposed, talented mare who is ready to win with a capable and confident rider.

Education, skills and experience: Hattie has competed in preliminary dressage with scores of between 69% and 73.4% with a teenage rider. She willingly collects, is balanced and well educated. Hattie shows immense potential - with her breeding and looks, to move up the ranks and be competitive against the bigger warmbloods.

Hattie has show jumped up to a metre with her previous owner and 80-90 with her current owner. She is scopey, careful and brave. Cross country, Hattie is strong, looky and possibly a bit too careful. She is forward in these disciplines and needs a confident and capable rider who can keep her light in the bridle and encourage her to slow down.

Hattie is a pleasure for anyone to ride on the flat and out and about. Her rider has ridden her bareback around the farm. She absolutely loves water and would probably love to go for a swim, given the opportunity! Hattie happily hacks out alone or with others. She doesn’t have separation anxiety leaving her paddock friends. Hattie is unphased by new environments. She is a confident horse on roads and around the farm. Hattie is unphased by tractors, trucks, livestock and dogs. 

Current workload/ fitness: Hattie is currently in work - 5 plus times a week - and is competing. 

Handling: Hattie is safe and easy to handle - to catch, shoe, wash, saddle and load. She will calmly tie up at the stables or float all day. 

Hattie is confident to load with a confident handler. She is happier if another horse is loaded first but she has had a lot of float training and now self loads. Hattie is very patient to unload.

Behaviour: Hattie is affectionate and is a pleasure to have around. She doesn’t need regular work to be safe under saddle and is fine to hop back on straight after a spell. Hattie is not ‘marey’ and it is hard to tell if she is in season. She is bottom of the pecking order in the paddock and gets bossed around by ponies.

Feeding and management: The property where Hattie lives is very dry with little grass. She is fed ‘ad lib’ constantly available teff hay with a small amount of lucerne hay. Hattie is also fed speedibeet, munga and coolstance copra with chaff, Digestive EQ and 4cyte - like most performance horses - as a preventative.

Medical history: Hattie can get ulcers if stabled for long competitions but this can be prevented with lucerne before riding and travelling. She responds well and quickly to ulcersheild. 

Hattie was diagnosed with Equine Asthma - it can flares up at the owners property in spring as she is in a sandy environment which is near silos and is extremely dusty at harvest time. It is easily managed with a nebulizer. Hattie never had a problem with her previous owners, on a property that didn’t have sandy soils or harvest grain. Vets suggest that in a different environment, she would not have flare ups.

A recent vet check revealed mild changes in her hocks, which have been medicated, hence price drop.

Rider Suitability: For a capable and confident rider, Hattie is a gorgeous, enjoyable and stress free horse for dressage, eventing and showjumping. She feeds off the rider’s energy, so if the rider is nervous when Hattie can get tense and forward. If the rider is calm and firm, Hattie is calm and relaxed.

Reason for sale: Hattie is very reluctantly for sale because, despite their huge success together and the love the family have for Hattie, her owners also believe that Hattie would thrive in a less dusty environment and with a more confident rider.