Hi.I guess it is about time I updated this page as well. It really
belongs to my husband, but since he won't type, I get to write it for him.
He didn't get into horses until we met, although he rode
when he was a kid. He bought his first horse the April after we were
married, a red dun Quarter Horse called Ginger Angelo. We bought her
from a trader in Mankato, KS that had actually bought back the first
horse we bought at auction. He had consigned it and after we got her home
found that she was seriously injured internally. Not many traders would
have done that.
After we got Ginger home, we decided to breed her to his brother in laws's stud. He had
a young stud that hadn't bred a mare before and he was looking for an older mare to
teach his stud to behave himself. We didn't even have to pay a stud fee. Eleven months
later, Sky arrived. We thought at first she was going to be a red dun like
her dam, but as she shed her foal coat, she turned a rich chestnut color. Now
she looks like my mare, Santee. Sky is two and a half years old now
and I am ashamed to say we have not done as much with her as we should
have. We have been riding her on weekends and as often as we can on the
weekdays. Basically, Steve has been riding while I stand on the sidelines
and give instruction. Once in awhile, she will act up and then I ride
her and get her working again, but since she is Steve's horse, he needs
to be riding her more than myself. He is doing okay for someone that has
never trained before. She is going to be a good riding horse for him.
Today, May 27, 1999, he actually rode her into town and she behaved beautifully
for him.
We sent Sky off to my BIL's for training in October, and my BIL fell in love
with her. He was not able to put many hours in on her, but she has gotten pretty
good and will be a lot easier for Steve to handle now. Of couse, Jerry just had
to tease Steve and tell him that Sky was too good a horse for him.
We sold this fillies dam, last fall and she has become a well traveled
mare. I sold her to a gal who breeds buckskins and duns, and she sold her
to a person in Illinois and she was sold by him to a family in Kentucky,'
that also specializes in buckskins and duns.
