Magic
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I've got to give you a little background first.
A good friend who bought (another) horse from me, and I sent our horses to a trainer for driving training. She had never trained a horse to drive before and my mare was going to be far more of a challenge than I cared to take on. The horses went back to her place a couple of weeks before the show, and the trainer said that my mare shouldn't be shown, she wasn't ready. Well my friend drove her and said "she CAN be ready if she is driven regularly" so I told her, go ahead and drive her then if you want.
So I flew into California the day before the show, drove my mare, and she was SO much better than she had been when I'd driven her at the trainer's. She wasn't jumpy or scared anymore.
We go off to the show, and drove our horses during the dinner break (in front of something like 100 people eating dinner, lol) and it was an adventure-- her horse had never been in a show ring and mine had only been in one ONCE, and it wasn't when driving. Her horse was starting to freak out after a while, it was all so new and scary to him, and my friend jumped out of the cart when she got him to a stop and had to unhitch. But-- her horse had looked SO awesome driving, she got tons of compliments on him.
The next day was driving classes, and I took my mare, Magic Mist Wildfire, into her Pleasure Driving classes. Her first class, she was all wound up but got a second place (three horses in the class). She was much better in the next class (and I forget what she got) but in her last class, she took TWO FIRSTS. I'm not afraid to admit that I cried. My homegrown "baby" who was so wild in the past that she couldn't be clipped or much else, had just won in her driving debut. THIS is what its all about.
Here is a picture of my Wildfire, this is her not clipped tho, I don't have any pictures of her from the show
Btw, this mare is out of the same dam as my B gelding, Magic Mist Color On Fire. I always knew this mare would produce some driving horses.
A good friend who bought (another) horse from me, and I sent our horses to a trainer for driving training. She had never trained a horse to drive before and my mare was going to be far more of a challenge than I cared to take on. The horses went back to her place a couple of weeks before the show, and the trainer said that my mare shouldn't be shown, she wasn't ready. Well my friend drove her and said "she CAN be ready if she is driven regularly" so I told her, go ahead and drive her then if you want.
So I flew into California the day before the show, drove my mare, and she was SO much better than she had been when I'd driven her at the trainer's. She wasn't jumpy or scared anymore.
We go off to the show, and drove our horses during the dinner break (in front of something like 100 people eating dinner, lol) and it was an adventure-- her horse had never been in a show ring and mine had only been in one ONCE, and it wasn't when driving. Her horse was starting to freak out after a while, it was all so new and scary to him, and my friend jumped out of the cart when she got him to a stop and had to unhitch. But-- her horse had looked SO awesome driving, she got tons of compliments on him.
The next day was driving classes, and I took my mare, Magic Mist Wildfire, into her Pleasure Driving classes. Her first class, she was all wound up but got a second place (three horses in the class). She was much better in the next class (and I forget what she got) but in her last class, she took TWO FIRSTS. I'm not afraid to admit that I cried. My homegrown "baby" who was so wild in the past that she couldn't be clipped or much else, had just won in her driving debut. THIS is what its all about.
Here is a picture of my Wildfire, this is her not clipped tho, I don't have any pictures of her from the show
Btw, this mare is out of the same dam as my B gelding, Magic Mist Color On Fire. I always knew this mare would produce some driving horses.