Bio: On the ground, Gus is as sweet of a horse as they come. I practice doing my Equine message therapy on him, and he eats it up. He has been lame for over two years, and we did x-rays on him last summer. He has pretty severe early onset arthritis. Even with corrective shoeing and arthritis meds, we haven't been able to get him riding sound. As a riding horse he also has a little bit of a playful buck at the start of some rides when he is fresh, so he is NOT suitable for light beginner riding. He hasn't bucked any of my family off, but they are fairly experienced riders. You can get him to not buck if you lunge him first, but you have to work him harder than his joints are comfortable. Again, his strength is his ground manners and companion ability. In our herd of about twenty horses he is very low on the pecking order and is a very sweet horse to other horses. Last year we kept him in for the winter (he needs some alfala in the winter) with the young weanlings and he was a great companion with them. We run cows on a large cattle ranch, and he really can't complete the work out here. He is fine here for the time being (especially since he makes a good practice massage horse) but I would like to see if we can find a companion home where he will get more love. Located in Dinosaur, CO.