“GENERAL LEE”
Tobiano paint pony, hunter/jumper pony club pony, English pony, large pony, dressage pony, eventing pony, cross-country pony
Foaled April 2000
13.3 hands, bay/white body, black/white mane
5/27/2006: Aspen, 2 4th and 1 5th place finish in the Baby Green Hunter Division (2'3'')
7/1/2006: Fruita, Champion of the Schooling Pony Jumper Division (2'6'')
8/12/2006: Aspen, Champion of the Level One Jumper Division (2'6'')
9/29-10/2/2006: Colorado Horse Park Horse Trails, Parker. USEA recognized show. Finished 10th out of 21 in the Open Beginner Novice Division.
For the family looking for an all-around winning pony in the show arena, General Lee is the answer. This pony gelding is going to be a star. General Lee is a gorgeous tobiano large pony, 13.3 hands, with a big motor and lots of heart. He’s very fast, smooth, knows his lead changes, and will jump the moon.
We took the little horse up to Marble early in 2005 and put him to work in the dude string, taking riders up and down the mountain. It was a bit of an adjustment for General Lee, and the toughest time came when our hunting guide, Brian Richardson, at 5’11” and 208 pounds, rode him for a solid week during elk season.
When Lindsay Alvarez came around and selected General Lee as her next hunter-jumper pony club prospect, he was literally jumping for joy—at least that’s what he did when she brought him to the arena. Jumps, cavalettis, lead changes—that’s nothing compared to spending 13-hour days in the high country in a blizzard, carrying a heavy hunting guide up the mountain through snowdrifts.
He’s shown his colors, literally. In just a few shows, General Lee was consistently the class of the field. Every show where Lindsay shows up, everybody is always asking, “Where did that cute pony come from?” The show at Preshana near Aspen was a riot. Lindsay was disappointed because the pony clipped a rail in the Level One Jumper division (out of 13 full-sized horses) and she figured they were out of the competition. As she was leaving, someone asked her, “Hey, Lindsay, don’t you want your ribbon?”
“What ribbon?” she replied. Lindsay had won Grand Champion at the show, largely because General Lee ran the course 24 seconds faster than the next fastest horse. Despite clipping a rail and receiving a 5-second fault, he won hands down. His results in a sanctioned Three-Day Event competition at Parker, Colorado, were similar. Though it was his first time ever on a cross-country horse, and though he had never been shown in dressage before, General Lee placed 10th out of 21 horses, and he was by far the smallest horse in the field.
This is a pony that can take a talented rider to the moon and back. He’s fast, responsive, well mannered, well trained, and mature, yet he doesn’t have a lot of hard jumping miles on him for his age. He has a lot of bone and good-sized feet, so he should be very durable.
General Lee is scheduled to be shown at Indio, California, this winter, and will be offered for sale at around $20,000-$25,000.
If you hurry, you can purchase him now for $18,000