I love gaited horses Void. I ride a Rocky Mountain gelding, that guy will go anywhere and cross anything. Top of my bucket list is to ride every kind of gaited horse before I die.
Oklahoma is still ridable, but it's just way too hot to do anything. Plus, we're still building that relationship. So, I'll just go out there and spend time grooming her.
One of our good family friends had a horse who couldn't be ridden and she herself was much older and couldn't ride but she loved horses and didn't work so she'd just go read or hang out with her horse everyday. They loved each other so much.
Honestly, it's nice have a horse with health problems. Sometimes she's gritchy because of her issues, sometimes I don't feel like doing much, so we just hang out