Daddy gloat time
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Daddy gloat time
Can't glaot about her grades, but dang the kid can ride a Horse.
Took my 14YO to her first English Show in about 6 months or so, we took her Gelding who the next door neighbor's Son-in-Law gave her.
He (the horse) was a somewhat retired Cutting Horse, he's 18, smallish, maybe 15.5 hands or so, but too slow for a small horse if you're a Cowboy.
Anyway, the kid's been working with him quite a bit the past few months, so today we loaded up and went to Stockton for a show.
Damned if didn't get a 2nd in her first class, then 3 firsts, then a 3rd (this was a real tough class, open division with 11 or 12 horses) then 2 more firsts.
What's amazing to me is you take a horse that just couldn't cut it on the Cowboy circuit anymore, give it to a teenage girl, and she beats $35K+ horses in competition.
Her real goal is to try to do some jumping classes with him this year, she's been jumping him at close to 3 feet in our arena at home, but her trainer isn't ready to let her do it yet in competition.
But the downside (financially) is I took my 7YO Daughter with us today, she was all stoked about her older sister winning, she's been in my ear for the past two hours that she wants to start taking lessons.
Aw, I know I'm gonna be one of those guys that just before he dies, I'll write my last check...and it'll bounce
Took my 14YO to her first English Show in about 6 months or so, we took her Gelding who the next door neighbor's Son-in-Law gave her.
He (the horse) was a somewhat retired Cutting Horse, he's 18, smallish, maybe 15.5 hands or so, but too slow for a small horse if you're a Cowboy.
Anyway, the kid's been working with him quite a bit the past few months, so today we loaded up and went to Stockton for a show.
Damned if didn't get a 2nd in her first class, then 3 firsts, then a 3rd (this was a real tough class, open division with 11 or 12 horses) then 2 more firsts.
What's amazing to me is you take a horse that just couldn't cut it on the Cowboy circuit anymore, give it to a teenage girl, and she beats $35K+ horses in competition.
Her real goal is to try to do some jumping classes with him this year, she's been jumping him at close to 3 feet in our arena at home, but her trainer isn't ready to let her do it yet in competition.
But the downside (financially) is I took my 7YO Daughter with us today, she was all stoked about her older sister winning, she's been in my ear for the past two hours that she wants to start taking lessons.
Aw, I know I'm gonna be one of those guys that just before he dies, I'll write my last check...and it'll bounce
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Congrats to the horse, your daughter, and all the little people that made it happen! 
If I were the owners of those $35k horses (recession! what recession?) I would ask for my money back!
If I were the owners of those $35k horses (recession! what recession?) I would ask for my money back!
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Congrats Mike on your daughters success with a free horse.
I grew up on the back of a horse, favorite animal friends. Fact, my favorite horse was free from a rancher in the Burney area. Dang horse would go all day and very honest. My dad went blind as he got older and he'd get on that horse and we'd go on trail rides and packing trips and the horse would keep him on the trail, never walk under a low branch, stumble or anything. Horse lived til 37 yo.
The winningest race horse of all time, John Henry, was purchased for $6000. Course that was the seventies, but still people who buy $35k horses don't know what they're doing. IMO.
I grew up on the back of a horse, favorite animal friends. Fact, my favorite horse was free from a rancher in the Burney area. Dang horse would go all day and very honest. My dad went blind as he got older and he'd get on that horse and we'd go on trail rides and packing trips and the horse would keep him on the trail, never walk under a low branch, stumble or anything. Horse lived til 37 yo.
The winningest race horse of all time, John Henry, was purchased for $6000. Course that was the seventies, but still people who buy $35k horses don't know what they're doing. IMO.
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