GUESS WHOS *probably* GETTING ANOTHER HORSE!
I went and looked at that mare today, she's wonderful. She hadn't been ridden in a year and a half till today, so we lunged which she did really well, then he rode her around for me and she was great, then I got on her and we rode out together for a while. She neck reins, moves off leg pressure, side passes, rides collected, stops off your seat, sliding stops, changes leads, does rollbacks, you can turn her with just leg pressure, etc.
she was really smooth riding. She does like to go faster and gets bored if you go to slow, but she won't speed up unless you ask. But boy it doesn't take much to ask. She's 16, has nice Two Eyed Jack papers, about 14.2 hands (guessing), and she's.. grulla? I think. Or a real muddy buckskin color. She's had one foal before (my cousin wants to breed her to her cutting horse stallion, we'll see.)
He was asking 1500 for her, I offered 1000, he countered with 1200, I countered with 1100, and now he's thinking on it.
Oh, there was one thing that happened. When we rode out in the feild we stopped and got to talking.. And she laid down!
Me and my cousin think that since she hasn't been ridden in so long she may have forgot her manners and was just trying to get me off. Or she was itchy from sweating.