Inquiring minds want to know, right?!
Just where are all the horses that BadEventer has blogged about over the years?
After I decided that 14 hand ponies, weren’t my best choice to move up the levels……….
See Where are They Now Part One for that story…….
I went on an epic search for my “ride to Rolex”.
I flew to Virginia, drove to Florida from Texas, and tried horses everywhere in between. After vetting 3 that turned out to have…….well……… issues, I bought the first one I looked at that was sound.
Word to the wise. That’s a poor choice.
BUT.
In true BadEventer style I thought it was just a matter of moving up the levels, right?
She did Novice before I got her….
And she was sold to me as a “Novice champion, ready for Training”
So in all my BadEventer-ness I thought – I’ll start at Training
And next year we’ll be at Prelim……..
And the year after…………………..
Yeah, unh huh.
That whole “movin’ on up plan”……………….
Well…………….
That didn’t happen.
It turned out, anything with a ditch involved was a deal breaker as far as she was concerned.
And it didn’t even really have to have a ditch………
If she thought there “might” be a ditch………that was enough for her to bail.
This particular time I stayed on long enough for the photographer to get a whole SERIES!!!!
And that was after moving back DOWN the levels, where I was finally convinced it was time to give up………….
But this lovely girl is safe on the trails,
rides in a halter
and is bombproof in basically every situation,
as long as you stay below Novice and don’t point her at anything with a ditch underneath it she’s an absolute rock star.
Here she is winning at Starter.
Her current owner recently posted this about her:
“…..my beautiful girl just looked so lovely to me with her spring dapples. I thought about how many people I have to thank for her being here now………. I love my mare the beautiful fighter. I’m so grateful to have such a beauty in my life. Thank you to everyone who helped me have this moment and so many more with this mare I love. And she’s still my first choice to ride on any day.”
I’d call that a happy ending.
Read on for Where are They Now? Part 3