I am never the most eloquent at first time introductions but let me give it a shot. 

My name is Maggie, and I live in Jacksonville (Always hot and rainy) Florida. I am 24 and work two jobs to support my horse addiction. I used to work with horses at a local westside equestrian center about 6 years back or so. None the less cut to the chase.

I have a lot of horse friends. Hence where this horse came along. A coworkers family had let their neighbors put a horse on their property. This was back in April. This horse was extremely skinny and green as ever. The guy who owned this horse didn't exactly take care of it, nor did he ever spend time with it. This is where wonderful people come in. The property it is on was my coworkers fathers'. But the 7 acres of property and stable (with 4 horses all over the age of 15, and one god awful Jersey cow) were her grandparents. These kind hearted people took it upon themselves to feed this horse and try to make sure he was at least comfortable. Then in June the coworker contacted me about this horse and its dilema. I am a huge sucker for animals and never having the oppurtunity of owning a horse caved in. His name then was Lil' Man. He is an 15hh stock paint 8 yr old gelding. At the time I traded my hobby car (1979 Triumph Spitfire) for him he was about only 700 lbs. With no papers and the condition he was in (no teeth, only coggins, hadn't seen a farrier in ages) I was no about to pay a dime for him. Hence I traded my hobby car to the scrapper who then owned him. He as I said came with nothing but a signed ownership over contract and a odd looking coggins. 

This horse I didn't think had a lot in him. But as he started to gain weight from being switched from livestock feed, to Patriot and 4 flakes a day of hay, he earned the name Galloway Flynn. Apparently (thought it could have been from anything) this horse was sored on his back feet, mainly because the previous owner said something along the lines of them doing that to him to get him to step pretty..basically he still won't let me really pick up his back feet. Still working on that.

Now about 3-4 months later Flynn weighs out at around 950 and climbing. He shows a strong will to learn, lunges decently and when saddled doesn't really seem to even care. He has a personality though...he is too smart for his own good. And as he got healthier, he got more feisty. Now he kicks up his heels and runs when hes let out of his pasture to go to the barn for feeding. We would love to socialize him with the other horses but #1...he hates that cow. I have never seen a horse behave that way. And the 30 year old Quarter Horse and him don't seem to get along even across hotwire.

Anywho enough rambling. I am here to learn some things I know people have to teach and to look for any sound advice. Thank you

also here are his before and afters top is in June.

Bottom is start of October