Because I want to be able to share my Boo posts, training writeups etc with my Facebook friends, my family, the world, you name it -- here's the new blog! And when I get the nerve to post the list of names I'm considering for Boo (for his final Jockey Club papers), I'll put it here too and ask for commentary.
Meanwhile this is where I'll put training posts, updated photos, questions, answers, and meditations.
A little bit about Boo:
He's a 3 year old Thoroughbred gelding, by Pure Prize (Storm Cat) out of Golden Gazelle (Meadowlake). I got him from Tranquility Farms through a set of utterly serendipitous circumstances - I wasn't really looking for a horse; and if I was, it was for an older horse who was trained and had some mileage and was maaaaybe 15.2hh. Or, in a pinch, maybe a younger horse who was small and ready to start and super easy looking and could be a resale project or something.
I won't lie. When I pictured "my first horse" I pictured myself with an 18-year old Arab.
Instead, I met a 17-hand chestnut gelding standing in a paddock with two other youngsters; he had a sad look in his eye as we were told his story. "He'll still be good for pleasure riding," Priscilla said, as we moved on - we were shopping, at the time, for an event prospect for a friend. But the tall sad gelding stayed in my mind and in my heart, and we went back twice more to Tranquility Farms. That third time, he came home with me.
It's been nothing but adventure and happiness since! Also - she was right. He'll be absolutely FINE for pleasure riding. He'll be a pleasure!
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