"Marc of Glory"
2001 solid brown mare. Wonderful type, stunning conformation. Nice mover and jumper, shown baby greens a couple of times.
Will sell with a breeding to Hanoverian stallion, Cabalito, who is producing VERY nice hunter foals. These 2 could produce your next IHF star!
You HAVE to check out her pictures- dont pass this one up!
http://whitehedgefarm.com/marc_of_glory.htm
Beautiful Hunter type mare by Marco Bay/Gallant Prospector
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martha c. green
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martha c. green
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Helments in TEXAS
Why post pictures of a rider without a helmet? 
Looks bad to the kids.
Looks bad to the kids.martha -
I'm from Texas and ALWAYS wear a helmet when getting on a horse - no matter the surroundings/circumstances. Guess it's because I know for a fact that I make my way in this world using - as best I can - what lies between my ears. OR maybe it's because I happen to know that it isn't how well you ride or how well you know your horse that makes riding a horse safe - it's how well you're equipped to weather the unexpected that might/can take place, causing your horse - or one immediately adjacent to it - to explode.
As a young pre-teen/teen I grew up in a westward expanding suburb of Houston that was engulfing several small villages of large acreage homesites and where about 10% of my friends had horses in small horselots behind their home or just down the street. We rode all the time - through the neighborhood network of roads (grassy shoulders between narrow 2-lane blacktop roads and the deep 'bar ditches' on either side, the woods and bayous of as yet undeveloped lots/acreage and the semi-cleared expansive grounds of the nearby Carmelite sisters' home (until Mother Superior sent a few sisters out to chase us off the grounds). We were of differing abilities and skill, on a motley array of grade horses/ponies and rode bareheaded, often in shorts with bare feet or in tennies - some rode bareback with nothing more than a hackamore to control their trusted ponies. I had to get invited by someone who could come up with a spare horse to ride so seized every opportunity when asked with no regard as to one horse's temperment/ground manners and level of control over another. Luck and the grace of God alone spared me any serious injuries I now realize. One day one of those friends got tossed off her beloved 'white' (gray) horse and head first into a concrete culvert - dying instantly at the age of 14/15. It literally killed her father and mother; their marriage cratered shortly after and I know that he felt enormous guilt that he had bought that horse for her 14th birthday. The trauma, loss and afteraffects rippled through that family forever afterward. The young men who were driving their constantly re-built/re-tooled "project" car by which backfired, causing the horse to rear, then buck and bolt, included her older brother. They were devastated and all bear some guilt/remorse to this day, forty years later. In the space of 2-3 minutes so many lives were either lost or forever altered. I wasn't out with her on that particular day - I was back where she kept her horse and will never forget looking up at the sound of thundering hoofbeats at the gallop and seeing her horse come flying wildly into the barn area, stirrups flapping on his sides, reins broken and dragging, sweat flying off his heaving flanks, eyes ringed white. The sick feeling I had seeing him come "home" like that without my friend will stay with me forever. I've never ridden without proper protective headgear, boots and leggings on since.
I'm from Texas and ALWAYS wear a helmet when getting on a horse - no matter the surroundings/circumstances. Guess it's because I know for a fact that I make my way in this world using - as best I can - what lies between my ears. OR maybe it's because I happen to know that it isn't how well you ride or how well you know your horse that makes riding a horse safe - it's how well you're equipped to weather the unexpected that might/can take place, causing your horse - or one immediately adjacent to it - to explode.
As a young pre-teen/teen I grew up in a westward expanding suburb of Houston that was engulfing several small villages of large acreage homesites and where about 10% of my friends had horses in small horselots behind their home or just down the street. We rode all the time - through the neighborhood network of roads (grassy shoulders between narrow 2-lane blacktop roads and the deep 'bar ditches' on either side, the woods and bayous of as yet undeveloped lots/acreage and the semi-cleared expansive grounds of the nearby Carmelite sisters' home (until Mother Superior sent a few sisters out to chase us off the grounds). We were of differing abilities and skill, on a motley array of grade horses/ponies and rode bareheaded, often in shorts with bare feet or in tennies - some rode bareback with nothing more than a hackamore to control their trusted ponies. I had to get invited by someone who could come up with a spare horse to ride so seized every opportunity when asked with no regard as to one horse's temperment/ground manners and level of control over another. Luck and the grace of God alone spared me any serious injuries I now realize. One day one of those friends got tossed off her beloved 'white' (gray) horse and head first into a concrete culvert - dying instantly at the age of 14/15. It literally killed her father and mother; their marriage cratered shortly after and I know that he felt enormous guilt that he had bought that horse for her 14th birthday. The trauma, loss and afteraffects rippled through that family forever afterward. The young men who were driving their constantly re-built/re-tooled "project" car by which backfired, causing the horse to rear, then buck and bolt, included her older brother. They were devastated and all bear some guilt/remorse to this day, forty years later. In the space of 2-3 minutes so many lives were either lost or forever altered. I wasn't out with her on that particular day - I was back where she kept her horse and will never forget looking up at the sound of thundering hoofbeats at the gallop and seeing her horse come flying wildly into the barn area, stirrups flapping on his sides, reins broken and dragging, sweat flying off his heaving flanks, eyes ringed white. The sick feeling I had seeing him come "home" like that without my friend will stay with me forever. I've never ridden without proper protective headgear, boots and leggings on since.
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Being a PC graduate I never mount a horse without head gear and Im 36. My kids have never been on their horses without headgear. My husband on the other hand....true cowboy, no headgear except the felt kind. Ive tried and tried. Ive told him the story of my friend who died while cooling her horse out after schooling cross country. She was hot and took her helmet off and took her feet out of the stirrups. Just walking, her gelding suddenly spooked, bolted forward, dropped his head and flipped her off over his head killing her instantly. She rode Preliminary and Intermediate eventers. At least he is smart enough to carry life insurance......
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martha c. green
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Headgear on horses
Some of you all are missing the point. 
I don't have any bad feelings about the great state of TEXAS and its riders. Wonderful that everyone that has posted uses the proper head gear. A very nice horse was posted on a A very well done webb site but the rider was not wearing a helmet . 
As I said before, it looks bad to the kids that are looking at the site.If you look at the site you will see what I mean. As a matter of fact ,I am very found of TEXAS. My son is a Capt. in the ARMY and has put in quite a bit of time at Fort Sam. Some of the best times I have had with him have ben in TEXAS. I even have a Texan living in my house. On one of my visits I brought home a BIG and I mean BIG stray cat.( He is sitting on top of my computer as I write this. he thinks it's funny 
) Keep up the good work with your horses and I'm glad to know you do have helmets in TEXAS.
I don't have any bad feelings about the great state of TEXAS and its riders. Wonderful that everyone that has posted uses the proper head gear. A very nice horse was posted on a A very well done webb site but the rider was not wearing a helmet . As I said before, it looks bad to the kids that are looking at the site.If you look at the site you will see what I mean. As a matter of fact ,I am very found of TEXAS. My son is a Capt. in the ARMY and has put in quite a bit of time at Fort Sam. Some of the best times I have had with him have ben in TEXAS. I even have a Texan living in my house. On one of my visits I brought home a BIG and I mean BIG stray cat.( He is sitting on top of my computer as I write this. he thinks it's funny ) Keep up the good work with your horses and I'm glad to know you do have helmets in TEXAS.Martha C...I didn't take the TX/helmet remark personally. What I will say about it is, you have to consider the source. And while I don't know Whitehedge personally, I do know a lot of H/J riders that ride without helmets. Look at the Chronicle of the Horse and you'll see a letter to the editor almost every week arguing the new helmet rules. I ride event horses and always ride with a helmet. Even hopping on my retired 17yr. old. Today I went to lunch with 4 H/J riders and none of them wear a helmet, except at shows when they have to. These are all intelligent, middle aged people. Every time I go ride with them someone makes a comment about my helmet. To the effect....Oh, you always make me feel guilty, I should wear a helmet. Well I've given up preaching to them. I would certainly hate for something to happen, but it's force of habit. None of them went to pony club, thier trainers don't wear helmets, so they JUST DON'T. You can't save everyone.
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Helmets.
I'm not trying to save everyone. I just think if you are selling horses to kids you should look like you know what you are doing. 
Start with the kids and you woun't have older rirders going with out helmets. 
If the old folkes think its cool to ride without a helmet that's there choice but there is the thing about setting a good exampel : 
As I said my reply was to the seller of the mare and the site with the pictures of the rider without a helmet.
I just think if you are selling horses to kids you should look like you know what you are doing. Start with the kids and you woun't have older rirders going with out helmets. If the old folkes think its cool to ride without a helmet that's there choice but there is the thing about setting a good exampel : As I said my reply was to the seller of the mare and the site with the pictures of the rider without a helmet.-
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Thanks Martha for your concern about the rider in the pictures, but I can assure you that she is making her own informed desicion about what to put on her head. Not that it makes any difference but she is an extremely successful ADULT rider, and that was at HER farm on HER horse. I generally require people (and everybody under 18 ) to wear helmets while riding on MY property, at least for jumping. But as an informed adult, I feel that the choice is up to her! At no barns that I am aware of do they allow children to ride without helmets- they would just be asking for a lawsuit.
And to clarify, it did not state anywhere in the ad that this was a horse for a child!! Nor do I market or advertise to attract children! I do not sell horses to children, I sell horses to their parents and their trainers who are the ones that are responsible for setting an example and to set the rules for their child/students to wear helmets.
And yes Toadie I would definatly agree that H/J riders wear helmets much less then eventers (BUT so do dressage riders, don't forget!) AND please don't forget the hundreds of thousands of more Western riders, cutters, reiners, etc. NONE of them wear hemlets, not even many bronc and bull riders!
So those of you that wear your helmets every time you ride every horse, good for you!! But please realize that this is a CHOICE for adults over 18 (while riding on their own property).
So anyway thanks for all the nice comments about the mare everybody!! (no more helmet discussions on this thread please
And to clarify, it did not state anywhere in the ad that this was a horse for a child!! Nor do I market or advertise to attract children! I do not sell horses to children, I sell horses to their parents and their trainers who are the ones that are responsible for setting an example and to set the rules for their child/students to wear helmets.
And yes Toadie I would definatly agree that H/J riders wear helmets much less then eventers (BUT so do dressage riders, don't forget!) AND please don't forget the hundreds of thousands of more Western riders, cutters, reiners, etc. NONE of them wear hemlets, not even many bronc and bull riders!
So those of you that wear your helmets every time you ride every horse, good for you!! But please realize that this is a CHOICE for adults over 18 (while riding on their own property).
So anyway thanks for all the nice comments about the mare everybody!! (no more helmet discussions on this thread please