Description:
Hollywood is a fine registered Spotted Saddle Horse gelding with all the smooth four-beat gaits you expect from this winning breed. He is stocky and strong and has mastered cows, kids, shooting, trails, and the arena. If you want a reliable, good-looking partner that is safe, sane, and can go all day, Hollywood is the man.
If you want to see a horse that is broke and ready to do it all, watch our video and come ride Hollywood for yourself. He has an excellent temperament to go with athleticism and calm-minded gentleness to go with that signature smooth four-beat gait.
TEMPERAMENT – Hollywood is a perfect gentleman on the ground and in the saddle. From kids to guests to cowboys who want to sort and rope, his mind is always “right.” As you can see from the video, he is ready, willing, and more than able for anything we ask him to do.
CONFORMATION – He checks every box. Thick and muscular in perfect proportions with the head of a superstar, he will always be the best-looking horse in the pasture.
COLOR – Spotted Palomino in a tobiano paint pattern, and coloring gives him one-of-a-kind good looks.
EXPERIENCE/ABILITY – Hollywood is a top-of-the-line all-around ranch and trail horse. With his size, he can carry anyone, and when you ask him to gait or lope, he steps up and out with smooth perfection.
He came to us as an experienced trail horse with a good mind and many miles under saddle. He has ridden in both large and small groups. Anyone can ride him. Having now completed our full program, he has the best ground and saddle training you can find – from basic lunging, flexing, picking up his shoulders, moving off your legs, and desensitizing to the obstacle course. All of this has been reinforced by practical experience and many hours doing his job. He can do anything a kid or cowboy asks and is an all-around winner.
If you like water, mud, and steep trails, just point Hollywood in the direction you want to go. Need to move cows? He tracks, cuts, has been roped off of, opens and closes gates, regularly moves cows, and will drag anything you latch to him. There is nothing under saddle this fine horse won’t willingly and capably do. He is firearms-safe and ready for mounted shooting or field trial. He is 100% sound with no issues, vices, or barn problems. He stands to be saddled, trimmed, bathed and used as a diving board in ponds and on trampolines. Whatever you want to do, Hollywood has been there and done that. He has passed with flying colors our training and certification program and is proficient in all below and more:
GROUNDWORK
• Desensitize- Six areas
o string
o tarp
• Disengage hips
• Drive shoulders
• Lower head
• Back up
• Send in a circle
o disengage
o change directions
• Wrap around drill
• Stand tied
• Head work (ears, eyes, mouth)
• Tail work
• Obstacle course
o jumps
o tires
o tetter- totter
o phone poles
o ditch
o cowboy curtain
• Block to saddle
• Lateral flexion
• Farrier work
• Trailer loading
• Saddling
• Bridling
• Hobbling
UNDER SADDLE
• Stand to mount
• Bend laterally
• Disengage hips
• One-rein stops
o walk
o trot
o lope
• Cross over front
• Moving leg yields
• Serpentines
• Disengage and back
• Figure 8’s
• Disengage on the fence
• Cloverleaf pattern
• Gait transitions
• Sidepass on the fence
• Sidepass off the fence
• Basic Trail Ride
• Advanced Trail Ride
• Vertical backing
• Draw to a stop
• Move shoulders
• Counter arc
• Sidepass obstacles
• Two-tracking
• Incline Backing
• Drive to a stop
• Lope perfect circles
• Water Crossing
• Advanced Ditch work
SPECIALITY TRAINING
• Kid and guest approved
• Roping Dummy
o tracking
o roping
• Live Cattle
• Mounted shooting or Field Trial
• Open and close gates
• Extreme Trail Ride
• Archery shooting
• Tomahawk throwing
• Swimming pond
Call David Carter with any questions about this wonderful horse.
About David Carter Horsemanship: David is the owner of the Double C Ranch and the founder of David Carter Horsemanship. He has an immense background in public speaking and agriculture. He holds multiple degrees in agriculture, business, and education. A well-known master horseman and trainer, David has many titles, achievements, and honors confirming his abilities. These skills are displayed daily throughout the year, working on the ranch, at clinics, demonstrations, and during property tours. He has worked for over 16 years as a 4-H and county agent for Mississippi State University and the LSU AgCenter Extension Service.
