SOLD!!!

And noone believed that I could do it! I had my first sale of a product of my breeding program. Cloud, Telli's second colt, who is three years old, sold to a woman named Lesla who absolutely loves him! She can't believe how well behaved he is as a young horse! She was even able to dress him up as her princess mount this Halloween! I'm very excited that I sold him on many levels.... He sold for $7,500 so I actually made a profit on him. ( I still am in the red for my whole horse operation though...... good thing I can write it off on my taxes!) It's great to have money coming in to pay for my HAY!!! and the rest of my horse addiction! I did it!! and I will do it again!

Rags is Reserve Champion Colt of Inspection!

This year I took my two foals to the ISR/Oldenburg inspection in August. Brianna was only about 5 weeks old and she went too! Luckily a friend of mine took care of her all day since I was totally involved with the horses and stressed to boot! I never would have survived this day without the help of my friends, especially Kris, Wendy, and Rachel. Well, I'm very happy to say that my breeding program this year excelled!! I had two colts, Rags, and Lightning. Lightning is Telli's foal and he is full of spunk. He is bred more for dressage while Rags is bred for the hunter world. Lightning got an amazing score for his movement..... an 8.5 out of a possible 9.0! His overall score was 8.1 which is awesome! Telli's last baby got an overall 7.9 2 years ago. Then there was Rags.... he scored an overall 8.3 which was high enough to earn him the second best of the foal crop that showed up-- about 12 foals. I'm so proud! I've always loved the breeding.. and the thought of putting two different genomes together.... it's like what Ali and I used to pretend with model horses- now I get to do it in REAL life! YEA!!! I have high hopes for these two foals.... Rags had someone fly up from LA to come see him.... I haven't heard anything from her since, so say a prayer that I sell him! (The foal in the last photo is Lightning.. you can see that he has very different movement than Rags, better for dressage.)

This is my friend Camille... She's my first friend. She's two days older than me and she lives only a few miles away. Her mom's name is Colleen and she does Stroller Strides, an exercise group that Camille and I get to go to, with my mom. We are going to go to Camille's house for Halloween. I'm going to be Tigger and Camille is dressing up like a pumpkin. Maybe mom will post some pictures of how cute we are later..... I'm off to sleep now..... eat, play, sleep. Such is the life!