What's That was adopted in January of 2024 by Dolly and her mother in PA. Their interests are primarily in hunters and dressage and they are so excited to bring What's That along together and see what the future holds!

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What's That is a 5 year old, 16.2 hand, dark bay gelding that came to us in partnership with Beyond the Wire in Maryland. He is unraced but was in training earlier this year. He is well bred, being by Great Notion and out of a Dance With Ravens mare. Worth looking up his pedigree as there are some greats in there!

He'd stopped racing in May due to a very minor tendon injury and by the time he came to ATR it had mostly healed! Our vet found him sound and her ultrasound showed the fiber pattern looking excellent. We gave him a bit more time off and graduate him to full turnout and he is now ready to go back to work without future limitations!

What's That has a cool personality. He enjoys making silly faces at people in the barn, and has been a gentleman to work with in the barn and has even largely ignores the farm dogs even when they're at their silliest running around. He was very kind to our companion pony Styx when they were turned out together, and is now turned out with 3 other geldings without issue.

So far we've only been able to work with What's That on the ground outside of a brief evaluation ride but he has been so easy to work with. He is eager to please and really looks to connect with his handler doing ground work and for just having one short ride in many months, he was happy to just bop around. He should prove very amateur friendly but is nice enough professionals and show homes should certainly still pay attention!

Weather and lack of an indoor this time of year prove difficult for us to get much (if any) riding done, but this guy is a steal for someone willing to restart a lovely horse themselves.