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.