BEHS 898 – Maybelle
| Name: Maybelle | Status:
Adopted |
| Adoption Fee: | Arrived At Rescue: May 6, 2017 |
| Location: Austin, TX | Adoption Date: April 26, 2021 |
| Registered: | Breed:
Grade Quarter Horse |
| Date of Birth: January 1, 2006 | Color:
Chestnut / Sorrel |
| Gender:
Mare |
Height: 14.1 |
About Maybelle
Maybelle was removed negligent owners and placed with Bluebonnet by the SPCA of Texas. She spent time with a trainer while in Bluebonnet, but her original foster home could not stop thinking about her. She ended up adopting her to be a companion and then returned approximately a year and a half later.
Maybelle completed in the 2019 Bluebonnet Rescue Horse Training Challenge in the professional division and then again in the spring 2020 Bluebonnet Rescue Horse Training Challenge in the non-pro division.
A special thank you to Elsik Photography for the beautiful photos of Maybelle. To visit them on Facebook *CLICK HERE*.
Maybelle will be competing under saddle in the Non-Pro Under Saddle division of the Bluebonnet Rescue Horse Training Challenge with non-pro Megan Oberdoerster. She will be available for adoption on May 15th at the Bluebonnet Rescue Horse Training Challenge at the Circle T Arena in Hamilton, Texas.
You can follow their progress on their Facebook page.
Evaluation and Training
Maybelle is a smart horse who learns quickly. She had a rider on her back a few times at a walk at the SPCA of Texas, and she was then transferred to Bluebonnet. She was enrolled in the 2017 Bluebonnet Rescue Horse Training Challenge, but her trainer had to withdraw from the Challenge due to personal reasons, so Maybelle spent October 2017 with a trainer. She was adopted as a companion, not ridden, and returned about 16 months later.
Maybelle is a smart mare who does not handle time off from work well. She has bucked in the past when she's had time off, and she's going to need a kind, but firm, trainer to bring her back into work. She's probably not ever going to be the kind of horse who can sit in a pasture for months and then be brought in and put right back to work. Maybelle needs consistent work.
Maybelle needs someone with very educated hands, steady seat, and correct legs who is a VERY confident rider. She feeds off of the energy of her person. She will go to the ends of the earth for someone who she trusts and can turn to for guidance and is a very chill, no nonsense girl, but she might revert back to bolting and bucking with a rider she does not trust.
Maybelle's Spring 2021 Bluebonnet Rescue Horse Training Challenge partner has worked hard with her. While previous trainers rode her western, and she did well, her current partner is riding her English. They've done arena work and have been out on a cross country course. Maybelle is looking for an adopter who is kind but also who plans to ride several times a week as Maybelle thrives with work!
Temperament
| Trailers: Yes | Bucks: She has bucked in the past when first started under saddle and again when given a lot of time off work. |
| Leads: Yes | Bites: No |
| Ties: Yes | Catches: Yes |
| Trims: Yes | Bathes: Unknown |
| Clips: Unknown | Rears: No |
| Kicks: No |
Pictures of Maybelle
