Can anyone help ID this California stallion?

[catknsn]

Rescued from kill pen after going through Mike's Auction in Pomona a few weeks ago.

• Unraced
• Black-bay with no markings except a few white hairs where a star would be
• 16.2 or 16.3 hands
• Mid-teens
• Scar on off side upper lip - looks like from a chain
• Big old bowed tendon on the right front. Had 4 shoes on (very overgrown)
• Sweet disposition, sensible, easy to handle
• Ties great, loads, fine for deworming, you can doctor stuff on him loose in the stall
• Weight is not bad but was full of lice, filthy and very worried/scared upon arrival
• No vices but afraid of having a chain on the halter

He just seems to me like he took a very wrong turn after a farm dispersal. This is a high quality horse who has been treated properly and kindly for most of his life, if not recently.

We would like to know who he is and I'd like to know how he rides before I find out.



Covered in soap suds but it's the only confo pic I have so far:

[LB]

No help with the ID, but it looks like he's a very lucky boy to have landed with you.

[Affirmed1]

He looks like a total sweetheart. You got a good one.

[Crystal]

Does he have a lip tattoo? The Jockey Club would help you ID him.

[summerhorse]

What farm was it that had an auction last year or two and had to stop it midway because the prices were so low? It was a year after the parents/farm owners died and the children (don't know how many) kept it going for a year (just enough to double the population of poorly bred, untrained young horses!). There was also the great dumps of the past by Warren (?) TBs.

[Jorge]

Thank you so much for your "good turn daily".
Certainly, your Blessing will come to you. Be sure of that!
Thanks again.