This is Ronald Albert my husband, riding Albert the horse. Albert is a Percheron gelding about 8 years old. Albert had been part of a fellows team of horses that he had sold some months earlier at a local auction. I learned all this from the info and phone numbers on Albert's coggins papers. Somewhere along the line Albert and his team mate were separated. A gal that lived not far from us had Albert listed for sale. We went to look and decided to take a chance on him. He was thin when we got him and that is almost a "shoe in" for us to drag one home whether we think they will work for us or not. Gotta feed em ya know! Poor horse!
At any rate, Albert was a fun and dependable riding horse but like Zoro, Albert was going to take a lot of work to drive single. Even during ground driving Albert would turn his head around while trying to walk forward looking for his missing team mate. We met a man at an outdoor flea market that knew a guy wanting a draft to ride so we sold him Albert. We did not own Albert for more than a half a year, but we got him fat and healthy, wormed, vetted, and his feet done regularly while he was here. He went to his new home in a lot better shape than he came to ours in. He was a nice horse, we wish him all the best!
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