pasthorses

I thought it would be fun to acknowledge some horses from my past. They are the reason I am
successful today! This page is still under construction. I will be adding more horses soon!

Zippo Marx
1989 Son of Zippo Pine Bar
"Markie" and I earned over 200 AQHA performance
points together. We accomplished a superior in Hunter
Under Saddle and placed 8th at the Quarter Horse
Congress in Youth Equitation. Markie and I also won
several all around trophies and many other year end
and circuit awards. This horse is the most responsible
for my patience, sometimes it took a lot to get him
shown! Markie is now retired in NC with a very nice
family!

Make Time For Me
"Kramer" was possibly my favorite show horse, although not the
easiest horse to show. He came from a very successful show home in
Florida where he had been run into by another horse and had a
terrible fear of horses coming up behind him. He belonged to
someone else at the barn where I trained and Kramer and his owner
just were not getting along. I decided to start riding him and fell in
love. It took a lot of work to get him over his fear,...many long days of
ponying another horse from him and all sorts of things to get him over
his fears. We had an awesome show season in 1998, placing top ten at
the Congress in Equitation. Soon after that Congress we found that
Kramer had terrible navicular changes and after 2 surgeries and
everything we could try to make him sound it just wasn't meant to be.
Kramer stayed in our pasture until I gave him to a friend for a pasture
mate to her horse. Kramer taught her neighbor girl the love of horses
and was a good friend to a child who needed one. Kramer passed
away just this past year. I still miss him dearly.

Image of Money
Imma was a great mare that I am proud to have the honor
of starting her show career. I came home from my first
semester of college and popped into the barn to help ride
some horses. I fell in love with this mare who at the time
was just barely started under saddle. Of course I ran home
and babbled to my dad how nice this mare was. He
surprised me with a phone call later that week telling me he
had bought her for me. I still had a year left to show in the
youth 14-18 division so the deal was I got to show her for
one season and then sell her. This was the nicest mare and
I had a very successful year with her doing all the training
myself. I sold her to Beckie Kerins who then took her on to
placings at the Congress and AQHA World show. Imma is
now with a Select rider in Canada.

Ugly was the horse who brought out the fun in life. At the age of 3 Ugly came
to me from a 50 acre pasture and had never been touched. His owner was a
friend of mine and he brought me this paint gelding to break. It took me a
week just to go in the stall and brush him, 2 weeks to saddle and a month and
a really messed up back later, to finally get him ridden. That big paint gelding
came back into my life about 2 years later. I had seen the sport of Cowboy
Mounted Shooting and knew I just had to do it. Only problem was, I didn't
have a horse to ride. I ran into my friend and asked him if he still had the paint
gelding. He said he did and asked if I wanted him. SURE, why not! So he
brings a skinny, skanky looking paint horse with 10 inches of hair and mud
caked from one end to the other. I just could not look at him without saying
"Oh he's so UGLY" Well it just kinda stuck! Ugly blossomed and turned into a
beautiful horse who was probably the most honest horse I have ever owned.
In just 2 weeks I had him neck reining and was hauling him to my first
shooting practice! Ugly and I did a little bit of everything together and he soon
became the barn favorite. I came very close to having to make the hardest
decision of my life when Ugly coliced really bad on me, and I thought I would
have to put him down. He pulled through and gave me the best weekend of
shooting just 3 days later!! I probably made the biggest MISTAKE of my life by
selling him in the spring of this year, but I had too many others to ride and he
wasn't getting the attention he deserved. Ugly now has a home with Judy
Provost in Navarre and she is continuing to shoot with him which is what he
loves.