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She took him at the very end of November, 2021 to begin to prepare him. He had to have his wolf teeth out, so that took off some time she could work him. She didn't have much time to turn him from chubby gentleman of (mostly) leisure into the athlete it requires to show, but in 3 months of work she readied him for the Four Beats for Pleasure show in Camden, SC. I was THRILLED when he showed up and looked around as if he were on just another happy adventure (he LOVES adventures.) Nobody even realized he was a stallion (except the DQP, who was surprised to find such a quiet horse was still in possession of his manly bits.) I wasn't expecting ribbons at his first show, as he's never been out before and he'd be competing against talented horses who had been in training for MUCH longer than he had, but he brought home a ribbon in every class. (I'll update the places when they post them to his record, as I've mixed up which classes he got what in...but he got four 2nd places, three 3rd's and two 4ths). Mikal plans to start him on the versatility path and we will be cheering him on every step of the way! WHOA Highpoints Standing for 2022
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G2
was one of the easiest horses to train, ever. With just 30 days of
training, he acted like an absolute pro. Which meant that rather
than getting finished out properly, he took a back burner to the
paid training horses and the horses who had issues that needed
addressing. Sort of a case of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." I
could pop on him and ride whenever I wanted and he was the same
horse each time, so Jarred wasn't in a hurry to get to him. G2 could
sit for 4 months, I could pull him out and trail ride with mares in
heat and other stallions and G2 was a perfect gentleman so Jarred
rolled his eyes and said "he's fine" when I insisted he needed to be
finished. People would come to see him to consider him for their
mares and Jarred would pull G2 up, hop on him bareback and he'd walk
and shake like he was bred to do...but I knew that with more riding
time he'd learn to carry his rider more efficiently and then people
could really see what he could do. When Mikal Spooner came to our
farm to drop off G2's full sister that I had bred to her stallion, I
talked her into taking G2 home with her to finish him for me and
give him a chance to go to some shows and be seen. 