"Captivate Your Heart"
Congress 2007 Top 10 3yo Open Non-Pro Hunter Under Saddle
"Captivate Your Heart"
NSBA Breeders Championship Futurity Top 5 Silver Non-Pro Hunter Under Saddle
"Spare Me The Details"
2006 Congress Finalist N.A. Equitation
"ThanksForTheDetails"
2011 Congress Top 10 Open Hunter Longe Line
"ThanksForTheDetails"
2011 Congress Top 10 Open Hunter Longe Line - receiving our medallion
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2007 Congress Top 10 Junior Hunter Under Saddle
"Captivate Your Heart"
2008 Kentucky Breeders' Futurity class winner (Hunter Under Saddle)
"Spare Me The Details"
2006 Kentucky State Fair class winner
"Captivate Your Heart"
2005 Tom Powers Futurity Top Five - Open Hunter Longe Line
"Spare Me The Details"
2003 Kentucky Futurity All-Around Winner
"Captivate Your Heart"
2005 Congress - Open Hunter Longe Line
"Spare Me The Details"
2003 Congress Finalist - N.A. Equitation
"Captivate Your Heart"
2005 Ohio Futurity - Open and Non-Pro Hunter Longe Line
"Spare Me The Details"
2005 Hunter Under Saddle Challenge Champion at the Findlay Firecracker Circuit
"Captivate Your Heart"
2005 Southern Ohio Futurity - Open and Non-Pro Hunter Longe Line
"Spare Me The Details"
2003 Kentucky Futurity Class Winner
"Spare Me The Details"
2003 Kentucky State Fair - Unanimous Class Winner of Showmanship, Hunter Under Saddle, and Equitation
"Spare Me The Details"
2002 Kentucky State Fair - Unanimous Class Winner Hunter Under Saddle
"Spare Me The Details"
2001 MEKQHA Circuit Champion - Hunter Under Saddle
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2001 Kentucky Futurity class winner - Hunter Under Saddle
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1999 Ohio Futurity - Non-Pro Longe Line 11th place out of 45.
What's in this website?
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Curiosity is overcoming you, isn't it? You are wondering who the heck I am! Well, here are all of your answers on various personal pages. See some photos of me and my pals and find out some useless information about who I am! Check out our family photo album. Plenty of information here for even the most discerning of stalkers!
Captivate Your Heart - better known as "Corky" - is my 2004 AQHA mare (The Last Captive X Fruit Cocktail (TB)). She specializes in hunter under saddle, and also shows showmanship. I bred and raised Corky, and together we went from yearling longe line to two Congress top 10's in 2007. Check out our training diaries starting when Corky was a yearling...read about the ups and downs of our training and show careers.
ThanksForTheDetails - better known as "Tango" - is my 2010 AQHA/APHA gelding (Thanks For Com En X Spare Me The Details). He is Taylor's son! Check out our training diaries where Tango learns to longe and eventually to ride.
Spare Me The Details - better known as "Taylor" - was my 1998 AQHA mare (Last Detail X Victoria Harbour (TB)). Taylor earned over 100 points in hunter under saddle, showmanship, and equitation before retiring in 2008 to become a broodmare. Check out the photos and stories from her many years in the show ring, and the ups and downs and downs of becoming a new mom.
In late 2004 I started an online training diary as I weaned Corky and started her ground training. This diary was mainly for my own benefit to keep track of my ups and downs, and progress (or lack of!). Over the years it has become a popular page on my site, as I pull no punches and note the highs and lows that come with training any horse, because no one really wants to read about how perfect someone's horse is! We all have many similar problems and training issues, don't we? Start here and follow my training processes and notes through the years.
OK, if you are REALLY bored and want to read a lot of mindless drivel, check out my latest blog, or check out some of my rants and weird observations in blogs from years past (Fun Reading MENU to the left!).
In my spare time (hahaha...how funny! SPARE time! As IF!) I paint horse portraits and other things. Painting has always been a way to relax me, and thankfully it has now become a way to help pay the hay and vet bills. Check out my Art By Rabbit page and see what I do from midnight to 4am :-]
I love analyzing showmanship and equitation patterns! I have a serious collection of well over a hundred showmanship patterns and nearly the same amount of equitation patterns. Check out the Patttern Geek page for some patterns I have run across, and my thoughts and ideas on them.
I enjoy traveling (when the vet bills haven't bankrupted me!). Take a look at my various trip pages in the menu to the left and see where I've gone!
There are lots of other pages on this website - videos of my horses, photos of my former horses that I owned or bred, some really dumb puns and jokes, lots and lots and lots of photos, etc. I am a closet computer geek, and I am constantly playing with this website and experimenting with code, so sometimes this page may look a little off-kilter as I am trying out new stuff. Most importantly - PLEASE send me a message and let me know you visited. Don't be a drive-by web surfer!
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