My Roan Comet TL - Updated video
- Tarrin Warren
- May 16
- 6 min read
Updated: May 27
Let me start off by saying that I do not sell horses for a living. When I price a horse, that is the price. I HATE negotiating. I do not price horse above their market value.
My Roan Comet TL aka Sis (Sage by her former owner) is a mare that has been in my lesson program for about a year. She started in my program because she had injured a rider after a series of unfortunate events and unaddressed pain. The owners took 1-2 lessons a month for 8 months focusing on groundwork and getting her pain addressed. She had teeth issues, sore back, sore hocks, sore stifles, thin soles. She came to them like this in December 2023. Her previous life was as a roping horse (I don’t think in a agood program) nd no maintenance was performed.
After 9 months of lessons, they realized they did not have the time to put into two horses. I believed in Sis and purchased her on 3/12/2025, for the sole purpose of rehabbing and reselling. She has been with me for 9 weeks.
I believe Sis will do well with a kind, confident beginner rider in a REGULAR weekly or bi-weekly lesson program. She would make a nice trail, play day horse, obstacle competition mount. She would work for a confident youth.
As of 5/25 she’s been weaned off equiox
Video 5/26 novice rider
Video from week of 5/20
Video from 5/15
Water doesn’t bother her. She’s consistently nailing both leads, lateral work is improving. We are working a lot with one hand and neck reining. She will try to inch towards the gate but is easily corrected. She is currently worked 3-5 days per week.
Video from 4/30. It was super windy and all my obstacles and Pivo kept blowing over. Video is shaking because of the Pivo being blown around. Sorry. we are on day 4 of shoulder in, haunches in and half pass. 3rd time to pick up garrocha pole. I took a video of her when I went to catch her and ground tying in the barn aisle by hay. She never moved when I left her to go back for the Pivo. You will see her shake her head trotting left track when I corrected her for inching to the gate. She handles correction well if executed fairly.
Where she is at in training:
When Sis arrived, she had not been ridden for a year and not consistently for over 15 months. She has been in training for 7 weeks and her price includes training until 5/14. Her price will go up with more training. She did not turn right or know any laterals. She has been started on leg yield, half pass, shoulder in, and haunches in. We are working on right lead canter. It takes her a couple attempts to get it. Sis has previously been ridden by kids (she wanted to take them and stand at the gate). She has been roped off of. Sis has been used to check cows and trail ride. The riding portion of the video attached was taken 4/3/2025. This is the third day we have worked on any canter. This is the third day of reintroducing the bit. She had a poor relationship with contact, so we rode her primarily in a rope hackamore and are teaching her to have a better relationship with the bit. Initially she just wanted to lean on it. She has caught on quickly and now that she knows we aren't going to jerk or pull, she has settled in nicely. In the video, I open a hybrid gate off her back. This is the first day and first attempt at performing this. She will side pass a pole and has a nice stop. This mare is SMART and sensitive (not in a bad reactive way. She wants to please and pays attention to everything so she could become overwhelmed by a super busy rider) Sis is a smooth ride that will be easy for anyone to sit.
I am moving cows on her
She can handle the garrocha pole
Good being handled by my youngest students
Good with dogs, chickens, cows, chaos
Unfazed by flags
Over bridges and tires
Sidepasses poles
In the 7 weeks she has been here, there has been no buck, rear, bolt, spook and I have ridden her on the windiest days with things blowing across the arena. She has startles but not spooks.
UPDATE 4/11: She is getting her trot canter transitions, both leads. We are beginning to work walk canter. I have hauled her to ride in a covered arena. She was the same horse she is at home. She had her shoes put on 4/7 (front only) and stood brilliantly for the farrier. She is on monthly adequan and equiox 4 days a week.
She gets along with any horse we put next to her. She rides the same when in heat as when not in heat. She does not want to be boss. She meets you at the fence every time she sees you.
She ground ties, stands at the mounting block, rides the same on windy days, not hers bound, good with fly spray. My youngest students have handled her with zero issues. She comes to you everyday when you go to catch her.
Sis wants a home where she gets fair treatment. She wants a rider that will not give her a lot of conflicting information or over aid / over correct. She wants to have good fitting tack and receive appropriate maintenance that will keep her comfortable and allow her years of comfortable service.
Her three-year-old 1/2 sibling (same sire) is currently listed for $8500
4/3:
4/16
4/23
Stats:
13 years old
AQHA registered
14.2 hands
Red Roan
Current back 8/2024, hock 11/2024, stifle 11/2024 and front foot x-rays 3/2025
Current dental 2/2025
Current coggins 11/2025
Current on vaccines 6/2024
Loads, ties, bathes, stands for farrier
She is easy to catch - she comes to you
Vet records from 1/2024 to current
Body work records from 1/2024 to current
Easy keeper
Currently riding her in a CSI pad and a myler MB33 with 5” shank or a rope hackamore
Here is a link to all her bodywork charts for the last year.
Items of note
She has a scar on left front that goes into hoofwall
She has a scar on right hind from a fence happened summer of 2024.
While she has been barefoot for over a year, she is more comfortable when worked with boots or shoes. She does have thin soles. She had front shoes on 4/7/2025 reset 5/12/2025. We keep her on a 5 week schedule. She will be tender for a day after resets.
She is on Adequan monthly. Due 6/13/25.
I have her on Equioxx to fight inflammation coming back into work. She is down to every other day.
She had back pain, hock pain and stifle pain. All have been injected. Back 8/2024, hocks 5/2025, SI 5/2025, stifles 3/2025. Back x-rayed with a few areas of reduced spacing - not touching. Stifles x-rayed clean. Hocks show minor changes and may need continued maintenance. Feet x-rays showed thin soles (7ish millimeters). I injected SI as a precautionary measure because of her hock pain. Hocks will sometimes create SI pain so I covered the basis. Dr. Canada didn’t think SI needed to be done but he was fine doing it knowing how much pain this mare had been worked in previously.
She has scars in her girth and whither area from previous poor fitting tack.
She is on a forage-based diet.
Dewormed Quest 3/2025, ivermectin 4/20/2025
What she comes with
Rope hackamore
Two lessons - must be used within 30 days of purchase and must be at our location.
Current on all maintenance
AQHA registration and transfer
Extended pedigree:
We are not in a position to have to sell her to the first person that walks in the door. It is more important for us to find the right home that can provide her long-term security.
I am happy to discuss her with you and schedule a time to see her.
$8500 - Pre purchase exams are welcome at your expense. We will haul to your vet for a fee. No, you can't just come pick her up and take her.
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