November 2, 2010
The ponies where all being held in one large corral and we were told we could go out and look them over and pick the ones we wanted. In a 4-in-hand it is best to have all one sex if possible. I didn’t really care if they were all mares or all geldings, but it happened that of the forty ponies still at the lot, I found five geldings that would work for me. There were only nine geldings anyway. These five were all darker in color. Two are bays, two are very deep chocolate chestnut and one is a dark brown. The chestnuts are almost black(I thought they were until later and I saw the dark brown color in the sun. Zillah is in central Washington and is dry most of the year, so we didn’t have to work out in the rain, but still our few hour excursion turned into an all day marathon of sorting out the five I wanted and getting halters on them. I forgot to mention that these ponies had hardly been handled. We did find that three marginally led, but two didn’t lead at all. They were actually quit good to get in the trailer and since there isn’t anywhere to go in a trailer, they settled into it just fine. I paid the weight price for each one and we were on our way home, but not before dark.
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