Post by CatB on Feb 7, 2003 13:51:00 GMT -5
(Hopefully, this works)
Here is a pic of my first "training project". I bought him when I was twelve - he was a yearling, and it was love at first sight. I worked the entire summer as a companion/babysitter (a "nanny" these days!) for a small neighbor girl, in order to pay my parents back (a whole $150.00!). I believe he had just turned two in this pic and I was thirteen. I'll always remember trying to train him to lunge using a clothesline and tree branch. ;D I don't recall what his breeding was, but both his dam and sire were chocolate (sooty? smutty?) palominos. He never got as big as I had hoped, 14.2 if that, and obviously I outgrew him and sold him as a 5 year old. He was a pretty calm youngster, but could be quite a balker! I never could get him to go across water.
Here is a pic of my first "training project". I bought him when I was twelve - he was a yearling, and it was love at first sight. I worked the entire summer as a companion/babysitter (a "nanny" these days!) for a small neighbor girl, in order to pay my parents back (a whole $150.00!). I believe he had just turned two in this pic and I was thirteen. I'll always remember trying to train him to lunge using a clothesline and tree branch. ;D I don't recall what his breeding was, but both his dam and sire were chocolate (sooty? smutty?) palominos. He never got as big as I had hoped, 14.2 if that, and obviously I outgrew him and sold him as a 5 year old. He was a pretty calm youngster, but could be quite a balker! I never could get him to go across water.
Have you been able to ride Cypress much? I haven't had a lesson in a couple weeks, suppose to Sunday. I've decided to cut back to one lesson a month for now, which means I won't be doing the March show - whew! I'm also toying with the idea of looking for a more "suitable" mount (translated - lead changer) - possibly an exracer(??), if I continue down the dressage road. But, it won't be anytime soon. How are your girlies?
...I love chocolate pals. I love the big white sock, he is so cute. When I bought my chocolate, Sweety, he was a wild range bred colt on a 5000 acre farm. They had large herds of mares on a few 1000 acres and just let stallions out with them for breeding. Then after 1- 2 years they brought all the young horses in for sale. I happened to be working with a lady that went out west twice a year for these sales and I spotted my palomino. He was one of the only palomino horses and the only pal foal on the whole farm and the owner had told us he had no idea where he had come from, none of the stallions or mares had produced a pal foal before. He had thought maybe a mustang stallion had gotten to some of his mares which he said happened once in a while if a wild band got to close to his land and the result was my boy....Long story short I had to have that chocolate palomino colt and brought him home. He was one of the most awsome horses I have ever had or worked with. He was so smart that at times it was actualy scarey LOL, he was an awsome barrel horse and could do english pleasure really well too. Since then I have had a huge soft spot for palominos in general but chocolates are my ultimate favorite. I have been trying to track down Sweety but the most I have found out is that the lady I had given him to got married, bought her own small place and still has him in northern NJ somewhere but I have no idea where. I would love to just visit him if not try to buy him back if she wanted to give him up to a retirement. 
Do you have a pic of your guy? I would love to see him!