There have been some great Transformation Tuesday stories submitted so far. When looking through some old photo albums, I realized I had my own transformation story to share about the horse I never talk about. The horse that kind of haunts me a little. This is the story of Beckett, my third horse. My former trainer has a knack for finding a diamond in the rough, and when she talked to an AQHA trainer friend of her’s I got super…
I originally saw this at Viva Carlos and just adored her post and all the others I’ve seen going around lately. I had to think about this a bit, because it isn’t exactly easy to pick the 5 most influential horses of your life. 1. The Intro Horse. We each came into horses in our own way, but it was always with a horse leading us. This might have been a friend’s first pony, or perhaps it was a draft…
After I graduated from college, I was riding at a nice barn with a great trainer. Most of the clients did A shows, and the ones who didn’t did C shows. Basically, not a whole lot were in the schooling show circuit I had been doing for years… and I wanted to move up. To make a long story (I’m sure I’ll blog about it later) short, I got a fancy project horse and semi-retired my trusty gelding. Beckett, a…