Registered Name: Soar
Sex: Mare
Height: 15.2H
Birthday: January 31, 2007
Breed: Thoroughbred
Colour: Grey
Use: Lindsey is training her for the TB makeover project
Best Friends: Mystique, Gustav, and Skye
Right brain introvert/extrovert
Level 4 (passed Freestyle with 4+)
What's Interesting: She was a race horse and won 9 races. Lindsey retrained her as part of the TB Makeover 2015 and won against about 200 other horses!
What she likes: People - she likes visiting with anyone who comes in the paddock.
Talents: Pretty much everything - Trails, obstacles, speed events, jumping, dressage
What Lindsey Says About Her: “I knew when I first met this wonderful girl she would be a great thinker and partner. She already wanted to greet me and was wanting to connect with me. Having a horse that already wants to be interested in you can really progress into amazing things."
Information:
Kahleesi was named 'Calli' and she had finished racing at the end of 2013, and was unwanted by her owner at the time so she was off loaded to another person named Meghan who intended to race her more in 2014. Meghan told us her papers never arrived so they weren't able to race her in 2014 so instead they sold her in May of 2014.
She spent the summer getting some down time and was lightly started back to work with on and off ground training and the occasional ride.
Lindsey found Kahleesi through a Facebook group, after searching for an OTTB for a few weeks. The Retired Racehorse Project in Kentucky really intrigued Lindsey and she wanted to find the right horse to work with over 2015 to train up for the competition, but also to be an excellent partner for jumpers and obtacle challenges.
The TB makeover contest allows 15 'retraining' rides post racing career and her seller was able to provide a written guarantee she had not passed that amount so Lindsey went down and met her and purchased her. When Lindsey went to meet her she played with her in the arena and she picked up on 'stick to me' and sideways very easily.
When she arrived at PHH she settled in quickly and was a sweet heart. During her first training session she played the first 5 Parelli games and showed us she is actually pretty introverted and needs a lot of time to think. She is incredibly sweet and willing and reacted to all of the new cues with a calm thinking attitude. The only thing she was really unsure about was the wiggle to back up and rubbing the carrot stick all over her.
Even James says "I like this horse, she is smart."
Her second training session continued to progress really well and she played all Parelli 7 games very well and is making great progress. Lindsey is really focusing on ground work and making a great connection and language with Kahleesi before getting to riding.
Kahleesi has progressed so well in her ground games that Lindsey did a first ride with her on February 10th, 2015 and she was fantastic. She was a bit tense and thinking 'go' but was very well behaved and listening. Lindsey is going to work on building relaxation in the saddle.
Kahleesi started her first clinics in May. She participated in the Mountain Trail clinic May 9, 2015 at PHH where she tried some new obstacles and showed us she has a lot of potential but also needs a lot of confidence. On the May long weekend she went to the Cowboy Dressage clinic with Parelli Professional Don Halladay and showed us she loves dressage and is very talented - she is also scared of the speaker system :) Read more about the clinic experience here.
Lindsey showed Kahleesi in many obstacle and extreme cowboy shows over the summer where Kahleesi placed extremely well. She then showed with Lindsey at the Retired Racehorse Project's Thorougbred Makeover 2015 at the Kentucky Horse Park and won the trail division, was 3rd in freestyle and was crowned America's Most Wanted Thoroughbred.
Watch Kahleesi's freestyle in the finals at the makeover: https://youtu.be/1ahMkVF1Y74
Watch her first freestyle routine at the makeover: https://youtu.be/15b2TL26_xM
Watch Kahleesi audition for her Parelli freestyle savvy: https://youtu.be/u6tXNgNCXNg
Read about Kahleesi (Soar) winning the 2015 Makeover here: http://www.horsechannel.com/horse-news/2015/11/meet-americas-most-wanted-thoroughbred.aspx
In November of 2015 Kahleesi did some demonstrations in the Spirit of the Horse at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. Watch her bridleless demo here.
