Well, gifted to a very good friend. Jimbo will have  a very good home for a very long time. It was the least I could do for him. He took very good care of my dad for a lot of miles. He’ll now take good care of my friend.

Jimbo is a true mustang, but not a BLM branded mustang. He probably came off the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. He is about 11 years old, about 14.2HH tall (I will measure him this week), stout build, great hooves, and a beautiful bay. He is perfectly sound in every way.

Jimbo was one of the horses Dad and I took on the first two legs of our Mexico-to-Canada horse pack trip, which ran 555 miles (by GPS) from the US/Mexico border near Douglas, AZ to Flagstaff, AZ (see my blog posts detailing the trip on westerntrailrider.com). He was one of my Dad’s string, under both saddle and pack. At the end of the trip, Jimbo was the only horse in our string without a single scratch on him.

Jimbo is solid and sure-footed on the trail. As usual, with a mustang, Jimbo is watchful and careful. He will occasionally spook, but spooks “in-place”, which is what you want a trail horse to do. This is the reason Jimbo never gets hurt or entangled on the trail and keeps his rider out of trouble. This is why I gave him to my dad as his primary saddle horse a couple years ago.

Jimbo loads and unloads easily from any kind of trailer. He is easy for the farrier. He is exceptionally well trained as a saddle horse and pack horse. He neck reins well and is solid under saddle. Jimbo is an excellent pack horse and handles hard and soft panniers equally well. He ties well and never pulls.

Jimbo’s only vice is that he doesn’t like to be caught in a pasture or corral. However, with consistent handling he gets over that. He doesn’t run away, he just stands back and looks. In the past I had him coming to me to be haltered, but he hasn’t been handled regularly in the past year or so.

Jimbo is the horse I have put my wife on for trail riding, as well as friends who have varying experience on horses. He’s pretty much a push-button horse.

I’m selling Jimbo, because Dad, at 85 years old, has decided to hang up his spurs and Jimbo doesn’t fit well with my gaited horses on the trail. He’s more like a Quarter Horse in that regard. Jimbo can really put down a fast walk when he wants to, but he prefers a nice, gentle jog. He has a good canter. Jimbo is not a slouch. He moves down a trail well, just not as fast as a gaited horse.

Here’s a short video clip with my dad riding Jimbo across the deserts of southern Arizona in 2015:

Jimbo is currently in Eagar, Arizona, but I will be bringing him to Salem, Utah in June, 2019. He will be offered for sale at $3,500. As usual, he will be offered with a 30-day money-back trial period.

For further details, videos, and other information, see my facebook page at Western Trail Rider.