As you know, we are trying to install a nice forward trot into Shadow now. He is making great progress.
My lesson on Wednesday with Dom went well, but I slacked off the rest of the week. I stopped out with William yesterday just to give Shadow a kiss and say hi, but that was it.
After a busy day Shannon and I ventured out to the barn. Shannon and Nikko working on "ho" and doing it when he is asked, not 4 steps after the word leaves her mouth, and me, working on the usual. Trot, half halt, trot, half halt, trot. He does absolutely great to the right, we made it all the way around the ring without really "losing" it. I only had to bring him back a time or two from his crazy fast trot/pace thing. To the left however, totally different story.
We start by walking around in a nice frame on the rail, then we proceed to trot. We start out very nice and framed, and trotting slowly. Then when I ask him to pick up the pace I get the big forward lurch. Sometimes I think that lurch is going to be the death of me. He always seems to do it while I'm mid post and I fly forward, lol. We just kept trying, but couldn't seem to get it, so we switched back to the right. Trotted around the ring again near perfect in that direction again, so back to the left we went.
Getting a little better, but not much. After about a half hour of just trying to get a real trot out of him, and stopping and re-framing and trying again, I got a little aggravated. I asked him one more time for the trot, and he lurched again, this time I let him ride through it instead of stopping and asking again. I couldn't seem to get him to hold a steady trot, just a pace. He seems to think he has 8 legs and isn't a horse, but an octopus and doesn't know where his legs go (this is a very interesting feeling!)
I haven't cantered him, ever, since he has been with me. Dom and I have discussed taking away options, and pace is not one of them. His choices with me are walk or trot and his choices with Dom are trot or canter and I didn't really want to change that, being that he doesn't really know how to canter well. He was just giving me such a hard time to the left and I felt myself getting more and more frustrated. I asked him one more time for a trot and he picked up very nicely, and I thought to myself okay maybe we have it now, but I thought to soon. I finally gave in and said okay this fast "eight legged trot" is not working for me, and I proceeded to ask for the canter. I got 3 or 4 beautiful strides out of him before he broke back into the trot, so we stopped and took a walk. After our little walk around, I tried the trot one more time and I GOT IT!
I made my own circle instead of using the whole ring because as usual, we needed to end on a good note. So I used about a quarter of the ring, and concentrated on his movement. I gave him small half halts whenever I would feel him tense like he was thinking about falling apart. He did it, thank god.
Needless to say, I rode for probably about an hour, which is more than I usually do when Dom isn't present and I feel like I got hit by a bus. I do not feel like the last time I was one a horse was Wednesday, at all. I am learning to concentrate on everything, me, him, and everything else I need to do while I'm up there. Since half halts and leg yields are the most important right now, I've kind of given up on steering. Terrible, I know.
I mentioned this to Dom on Wednesday, and she told me it's okay! I was relived to hear that, I have to be able to half halt at the right moment in order to bring him down, I have to keep pressure on him through my knees to keep him moving forward, and keep my inside heel on him to keep him some what straight to keep him from dropping his shoulder. All of this, for a person who has no coordination makes adding in steering at this point a little difficult. Once we get the trot down, I will go back to that, its already there, he just needs a little direction.
To finish our ride, we did some bending exercises as always, he even does it by himself when I stop and give him a break because he thinks it means we're done and I will get off of him. Lol, he is such a funny boy.
I'm so excited to see him progress in every ride, maybe Monday we will start to the left and end to the right and see if there is any improvement there.
Goodnight all.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Friday, September 27, 2013
Blast from the past
Today I guess I decided to do a little exploring, with the help of the Standardbred Performance Society, that is.
They recently added me to the group so I decided to extend my thanks and post a picture of Shadow and give a little introduction. This turned out to be an all day conversation between fellow standardbred owners.
I got some racing information, which I had already know, as I mentioned in our about me. It was a lot cooler to actually see it on paper, and again getting to see his blood lines, birthday, etc. I found out the park where he raced his last race in Indiana at age 2, and also photographer information in hopes of getting some pictures.
With the help of Jess, we have emailed and left messages for her, so hopefully she will get back to me, I would absolutely LOVE to have race photos of him. With a little more research we found information on the people who had him as a baby. So I proceeded to make the call, well actually Jackie who I work with called because I was too nervous. The man who owned him, named Dwayne Pletcher, who is now 82, was able to get on the phone. First we spoke with his wife, and she remembered Shadow, but couldn't tell us anything. Maybe she didn't really have much involvement in the horses?
She put Mr. Pletcher on, but he couldn't hear well, and I listened close as Mrs. Pletcher said " she wants to know about You Got It, the horse we had long ago" and I heard him reply " I don't remember the horse", he is older, so that was to be expected. His wife came back on the phone to tell us that unfortunately he does not remember him. Jackie, thinking quickly, saw that I had written down another number, she asked Mrs. Pletcher if that was another one of her numbers and she said no, and she gave her another number and said that is my son. Jackie asked if her son would remember him and she replied with yes, he probably raised him!
Jackie then called their son, who didn't answer, she left a message. About 20 minutes or so later, my cell phone rang and it was him! (I'm literally so excited, if you cannot tell.) Jackie asked if he remembered, and thankfully he did. He couldn't give us much, but the little bit he did give was enough to make me smile from ear to ear.
He told Jackie he was very successful for them, but he was CRAZY. He said he was a lot to train and had to be tranquilized several times during his training because he was too much for them to handle (hard to believe because he is the biggest love on the planet). He said they got him started at 2 (as I mentioned already) and said he was a very successful horse for them. Making the 10 starts and winning 6, bringing in exactly $62,749.00 for them. He only raced that year, he said in the fall of his 2 year old life, someone from the east bought him. Ready for this? They purchased him for $90,000.00. WOW. Never saw that coming.
He said after he was sold, he never raced. There was no reason not to race him, but they didn't. He said the last he heard from them he was training very well, they just never put him back on the track, but hey, I'm okay with that.
He asked us how he was doing, and if he was over his craziness, and what he was doing now. He was very please to hear that he is a hunter/jumper prospect and wished me the best of luck with him and said he was a very good looking horse, which made me really feel good, knowing that he has known Shadow since he was a little babe!
The plus side of all this for me? Shadow was NEVER injured in his racing career, I needed to hear that. That worry is now checked off my list.
Even though this is barely anything, it was more than I had and I absolutely loved hearing it, I am like a little kid. Literally filled with excitement!
They recently added me to the group so I decided to extend my thanks and post a picture of Shadow and give a little introduction. This turned out to be an all day conversation between fellow standardbred owners.
I got some racing information, which I had already know, as I mentioned in our about me. It was a lot cooler to actually see it on paper, and again getting to see his blood lines, birthday, etc. I found out the park where he raced his last race in Indiana at age 2, and also photographer information in hopes of getting some pictures.
With the help of Jess, we have emailed and left messages for her, so hopefully she will get back to me, I would absolutely LOVE to have race photos of him. With a little more research we found information on the people who had him as a baby. So I proceeded to make the call, well actually Jackie who I work with called because I was too nervous. The man who owned him, named Dwayne Pletcher, who is now 82, was able to get on the phone. First we spoke with his wife, and she remembered Shadow, but couldn't tell us anything. Maybe she didn't really have much involvement in the horses?
She put Mr. Pletcher on, but he couldn't hear well, and I listened close as Mrs. Pletcher said " she wants to know about You Got It, the horse we had long ago" and I heard him reply " I don't remember the horse", he is older, so that was to be expected. His wife came back on the phone to tell us that unfortunately he does not remember him. Jackie, thinking quickly, saw that I had written down another number, she asked Mrs. Pletcher if that was another one of her numbers and she said no, and she gave her another number and said that is my son. Jackie asked if her son would remember him and she replied with yes, he probably raised him!
Jackie then called their son, who didn't answer, she left a message. About 20 minutes or so later, my cell phone rang and it was him! (I'm literally so excited, if you cannot tell.) Jackie asked if he remembered, and thankfully he did. He couldn't give us much, but the little bit he did give was enough to make me smile from ear to ear.
He told Jackie he was very successful for them, but he was CRAZY. He said he was a lot to train and had to be tranquilized several times during his training because he was too much for them to handle (hard to believe because he is the biggest love on the planet). He said they got him started at 2 (as I mentioned already) and said he was a very successful horse for them. Making the 10 starts and winning 6, bringing in exactly $62,749.00 for them. He only raced that year, he said in the fall of his 2 year old life, someone from the east bought him. Ready for this? They purchased him for $90,000.00. WOW. Never saw that coming.
He said after he was sold, he never raced. There was no reason not to race him, but they didn't. He said the last he heard from them he was training very well, they just never put him back on the track, but hey, I'm okay with that.
He asked us how he was doing, and if he was over his craziness, and what he was doing now. He was very please to hear that he is a hunter/jumper prospect and wished me the best of luck with him and said he was a very good looking horse, which made me really feel good, knowing that he has known Shadow since he was a little babe!
The plus side of all this for me? Shadow was NEVER injured in his racing career, I needed to hear that. That worry is now checked off my list.
Even though this is barely anything, it was more than I had and I absolutely loved hearing it, I am like a little kid. Literally filled with excitement!
My $90,000 man, lol!
Thursday, September 26, 2013
The Beginning
Since I've already had Shadow for about two months, I have a lot to write about. I guess I'll start with SRF.
They were scheduled to have a meet and greet Bonni told me to attend, it was on a Friday. It happened to rain, but we never saw an update that it was cancelled, so off we went. Upon arrival, nobody was there other than the volunteers and workers, reason being the meet and greet was cancelled! They showed me around anyway, took me from paddock to paddock and mentioned some horses they thought would be a good match for me based on what I was telling them about myself. They approved my application and asked several questions for a "screening" and I set an appointment to come back Monday. Of course that Monday was the start of the heat wave with 100+ degree weather. We ventured over there anyway at around 6:00, Bonni, myself and Rhiana, who came for moral support. I went there with 3 horses in mind, Closer, who was a beautiful red headed boy standing at about 16.3 (I'm a sucker for the tall ones) Spirit who was a small mare and Angel, another smaller mare. Well, turns out, NONE of them were for me. Closer was dreadfully lazy, Spirit was a little too much to me on the ground, very antsy and very pacey under saddle, and Angel. Angel and I just did not get along. I asked for a trot and I got three bucks and a turn to the inside in an attempt to get me off of her. Once she was done putting on a show, I got down (willingly). Luckily before I had left to head over there that night I took one last look at their website and jotted down some other names of horses that would interest me. Once I was done with those three and ready to give up, I said well I have a few more names. We ran down the list and Shadow was the last one on it. Everyone else on the list had some sort of issue or was already adopted. Trish, the adoption coordinator went and got Shadow from the field and placed him in a stall until I was ready for him. Finally, exhausted, I made my way into the barn and down to the stall he was in. I opened the door, he picked up his head perked his ears up and came right to me. I brought him out on the cross ties, got him ready, and as I was doing this, he was falling asleep! All I could thing was "what a sweet boy" he did everything I asked him to do (on the ground) without a fight and very gently. We finished getting ready and out to the ring we went. I got on and we walked around nicely, even went over a little cross rail set up at the walk, he kind of stopped and looked at it, then went on his way. So far, the nicest horse I had seen the whole time there. I then asked for the trot, and then the canter. He was great, I really loved everything about him. Trish told me there were several other people looking at him, so Bonni came in and asked me to take a walk and talk with her. We discussed my options and how I didn't need to settle for the first horse that felt nice, but there was just something about him. She said she watched him go, and he looked great. He didn't seem to show any hitch or stifle issues or even hip issues. I then looked at Rhiana for her input, and she gave me "the look". The look that says I know your happy so just do it. She said she could tell me and him would be a good fit. So I went back to the barn and spoke to Trish, did the paper work and handed over a check. Shadow wasn't supposed to be home until August 1st, but Bonni convinced me and he came home the next day!
Bonni went and got him while I was working the next day and I rushed out of work to go see him. He was a little upset being alone, but he eventually got used to that. He sat around for a week doing nothing, just spending time with me grazing and being groomed. His feet were really bad. Very long toes, and very flat heels, which caused for a lot of tripping. As you can imagine, once we got under saddle, it was even worse. I also noticed something funny with his back right hip, which I didn't notice before. When I would ask him to pick up his foot so I could pick his hoof. instead of lifting it straight up, he would push it out. I didn't mention it to anyone, I just kind of let it go. Then our farrier came out and met Shadow for the first time, I sat and I talked with him for a while and then he got to that back hip, and I still didn't mention it. I watched Rob ask Shadow for his back foot, and Shadow pushed Rob over into the wall. Not meanly, but because of the way he lifts his leg. I asked Rob what he thought of it, and he replied "There is definitely something wrong there". All I could think was GREAT. I had gotten this horse in hopes of continuing my jumping career and I had felt like that all went out the window, but I had calmed myself and said, maybe its just weak muscles. Nothing a joint supplement and a little work won't fix, right? Shortly after this, we started riding together.
So one night, Shannon and I were talking about Nikko, who has terrible trailer loading issue and she told me about a girl that was recommend to her. Her name was Dom. Shannon showed me her website, and I read along kind of excited, She seemed great, but I was nervous about starting with someone new. I've only ever trained with one person, but I knew going back to her was not an option. I finally came across what sold me, she worked with standardbreds, not only did she work with them, but she has one of her own. Awesome, right? So I emailed Dom, told her my thoughts, concerns and goals and we proceeded to email back and fourth for a while. I then learned that standardbreds were her favorite breed, which made me feel even better. We scheduled our first lesson, which was rained out, and then rescheduled for the following week. Excited and a little nervous I went to the barn to get ready that day. She came in, and Shadow must have known I was a little excited because he was on the cross ties like a fire breathing dragon. I had never seen him like that before, and Dom was a little surprised. I proceeded to tack him up and get him to the ring for his evaluation. I was happy to see (well not happy) but felt better about myself when I saw Shadow giving Dom the same trouble he was giving me, the only difference being, she knows what she is doing! haha. I brought his hip up to her and she said she didn't feel anything and watching him walk didn't see any stifle issue, which made me feel okay about it. The next couple of lessons went great, we got a nice painfully slow trot out of him, he now knows how to frame, and the lurch is virtually gone, now our project is getting away from the painfully slow trot and getting a nice medium gate out of him.
At about our 4th time working with Dom, he wasn't having a good day. I didnt even ride him, Dom took the whole hour and didnt offer for me to get on. I knew something wasn't right that day. The look on Dom's face was not her norm. She has said there was no point in me getting on and getting frustrated and she had mentioned she now felt something going on in that hip after cantering him for the first time. She mentioned him being a lot stronger to the right than the left, which was the total opposite of the usual for these guys. So again, my fear came back, but as I said, I promised him forever. No matter how bummed I was, whatever he was, he was mine. I had mentioned he was on a joint supplement and it still hadn't had time to start working yet, so I still had a little hope.
Lessons continued, each time a little better, bending, holding a frame, and trotting. Dom had brought up that there was a standardbred show coming up at the beginning of September, and I decided to go. I thought it would be a great way to see what I have gotten myself into, the potential the breed has and network with other stb owners. Well, I saw the potential and was very excited, as far as networking, there was none of that. I almost forgot for a second how political the show world is. Anyway, Shadow schooled like an all star, Dom even jumped him over a cross rail a few times (his first one) and he got very excited in the actual show ring. Pacing, cutting corners, throwing his head and eventually, the nicest canter I have ever felt in my life. This to me was rather funny, but I had to keep a straight face, being that I was in a walk trot class!! Needless to say, we did not place, which was okay. He still did better than I would have ever planned being with me for only a month. I was so proud of him.
After the show, we continued working on the same. Leg yields, trotting, framing up, bending, and trying to hold his nice trot. Which is where we are leading up to this week. In between that time, Dom had set me up with a fellow stb owner who had also adopted from SRF, Jess. Jess and myself had been talking for awhile and we finally set a date to meet when she had returned from her honey moon. I went and sat in on one of her lessons with Danny Warrington and met Spyder, who I think is Shadow's cousin actually. It was good for me to see, it gave me hope, more than the show did. Spyder is further along than Shadow and it good to see someone on the same path as me, they are great pair and I love them already! Jess is hoping to get a trailer soon so we can do more together and include BOTH horses rather than one of the boys and both of us.
I had another lesson last night and Jess came to visit. Dom reassured me she no longer feels anything wrong in Shadow's hip, which made me feel great, thank you Smart Pak! Jess said she didnt expect Shadow to be this far along already and told me he looked great. He is doing really well, he frames himself very nicely and can really get beautiful trot, but he still cannot hold it for that long, a couple strides and we fall apart. I'm getting inpatient, but I see his potential and I have a ton of support, so I need to relax myself. He does great and he gives me his all time and time again. I know we will get there, especially with Dom in our corner.
They were scheduled to have a meet and greet Bonni told me to attend, it was on a Friday. It happened to rain, but we never saw an update that it was cancelled, so off we went. Upon arrival, nobody was there other than the volunteers and workers, reason being the meet and greet was cancelled! They showed me around anyway, took me from paddock to paddock and mentioned some horses they thought would be a good match for me based on what I was telling them about myself. They approved my application and asked several questions for a "screening" and I set an appointment to come back Monday. Of course that Monday was the start of the heat wave with 100+ degree weather. We ventured over there anyway at around 6:00, Bonni, myself and Rhiana, who came for moral support. I went there with 3 horses in mind, Closer, who was a beautiful red headed boy standing at about 16.3 (I'm a sucker for the tall ones) Spirit who was a small mare and Angel, another smaller mare. Well, turns out, NONE of them were for me. Closer was dreadfully lazy, Spirit was a little too much to me on the ground, very antsy and very pacey under saddle, and Angel. Angel and I just did not get along. I asked for a trot and I got three bucks and a turn to the inside in an attempt to get me off of her. Once she was done putting on a show, I got down (willingly). Luckily before I had left to head over there that night I took one last look at their website and jotted down some other names of horses that would interest me. Once I was done with those three and ready to give up, I said well I have a few more names. We ran down the list and Shadow was the last one on it. Everyone else on the list had some sort of issue or was already adopted. Trish, the adoption coordinator went and got Shadow from the field and placed him in a stall until I was ready for him. Finally, exhausted, I made my way into the barn and down to the stall he was in. I opened the door, he picked up his head perked his ears up and came right to me. I brought him out on the cross ties, got him ready, and as I was doing this, he was falling asleep! All I could thing was "what a sweet boy" he did everything I asked him to do (on the ground) without a fight and very gently. We finished getting ready and out to the ring we went. I got on and we walked around nicely, even went over a little cross rail set up at the walk, he kind of stopped and looked at it, then went on his way. So far, the nicest horse I had seen the whole time there. I then asked for the trot, and then the canter. He was great, I really loved everything about him. Trish told me there were several other people looking at him, so Bonni came in and asked me to take a walk and talk with her. We discussed my options and how I didn't need to settle for the first horse that felt nice, but there was just something about him. She said she watched him go, and he looked great. He didn't seem to show any hitch or stifle issues or even hip issues. I then looked at Rhiana for her input, and she gave me "the look". The look that says I know your happy so just do it. She said she could tell me and him would be a good fit. So I went back to the barn and spoke to Trish, did the paper work and handed over a check. Shadow wasn't supposed to be home until August 1st, but Bonni convinced me and he came home the next day!
Shadow standing outside SRF's barn after our ride.
Bonni went and got him while I was working the next day and I rushed out of work to go see him. He was a little upset being alone, but he eventually got used to that. He sat around for a week doing nothing, just spending time with me grazing and being groomed. His feet were really bad. Very long toes, and very flat heels, which caused for a lot of tripping. As you can imagine, once we got under saddle, it was even worse. I also noticed something funny with his back right hip, which I didn't notice before. When I would ask him to pick up his foot so I could pick his hoof. instead of lifting it straight up, he would push it out. I didn't mention it to anyone, I just kind of let it go. Then our farrier came out and met Shadow for the first time, I sat and I talked with him for a while and then he got to that back hip, and I still didn't mention it. I watched Rob ask Shadow for his back foot, and Shadow pushed Rob over into the wall. Not meanly, but because of the way he lifts his leg. I asked Rob what he thought of it, and he replied "There is definitely something wrong there". All I could think was GREAT. I had gotten this horse in hopes of continuing my jumping career and I had felt like that all went out the window, but I had calmed myself and said, maybe its just weak muscles. Nothing a joint supplement and a little work won't fix, right? Shortly after this, we started riding together.
Shadow's first day home with us.
It finally started to show that I was at a loss. We started riding, and he would run away with me, super super fast with an extra large lurch for a transition. He was not trotting, not even a step, and I tried everything I have ever know and nothing was working.. I was starting to get discouraged. Asking myself, was this right? Did I make the right choice? and then eventually I NEED HELP!
So one night, Shannon and I were talking about Nikko, who has terrible trailer loading issue and she told me about a girl that was recommend to her. Her name was Dom. Shannon showed me her website, and I read along kind of excited, She seemed great, but I was nervous about starting with someone new. I've only ever trained with one person, but I knew going back to her was not an option. I finally came across what sold me, she worked with standardbreds, not only did she work with them, but she has one of her own. Awesome, right? So I emailed Dom, told her my thoughts, concerns and goals and we proceeded to email back and fourth for a while. I then learned that standardbreds were her favorite breed, which made me feel even better. We scheduled our first lesson, which was rained out, and then rescheduled for the following week. Excited and a little nervous I went to the barn to get ready that day. She came in, and Shadow must have known I was a little excited because he was on the cross ties like a fire breathing dragon. I had never seen him like that before, and Dom was a little surprised. I proceeded to tack him up and get him to the ring for his evaluation. I was happy to see (well not happy) but felt better about myself when I saw Shadow giving Dom the same trouble he was giving me, the only difference being, she knows what she is doing! haha. I brought his hip up to her and she said she didn't feel anything and watching him walk didn't see any stifle issue, which made me feel okay about it. The next couple of lessons went great, we got a nice painfully slow trot out of him, he now knows how to frame, and the lurch is virtually gone, now our project is getting away from the painfully slow trot and getting a nice medium gate out of him.
Learning to use side reins for the first time
Which was kind of hard for him at first, lol
Shadow and Dom during our third lesson together
See, he really can frame nicely, my favorite picture.
Excuse my eq., we are not working me, but he looks wonderful, 3rd week in!
At about our 4th time working with Dom, he wasn't having a good day. I didnt even ride him, Dom took the whole hour and didnt offer for me to get on. I knew something wasn't right that day. The look on Dom's face was not her norm. She has said there was no point in me getting on and getting frustrated and she had mentioned she now felt something going on in that hip after cantering him for the first time. She mentioned him being a lot stronger to the right than the left, which was the total opposite of the usual for these guys. So again, my fear came back, but as I said, I promised him forever. No matter how bummed I was, whatever he was, he was mine. I had mentioned he was on a joint supplement and it still hadn't had time to start working yet, so I still had a little hope.
Lessons continued, each time a little better, bending, holding a frame, and trotting. Dom had brought up that there was a standardbred show coming up at the beginning of September, and I decided to go. I thought it would be a great way to see what I have gotten myself into, the potential the breed has and network with other stb owners. Well, I saw the potential and was very excited, as far as networking, there was none of that. I almost forgot for a second how political the show world is. Anyway, Shadow schooled like an all star, Dom even jumped him over a cross rail a few times (his first one) and he got very excited in the actual show ring. Pacing, cutting corners, throwing his head and eventually, the nicest canter I have ever felt in my life. This to me was rather funny, but I had to keep a straight face, being that I was in a walk trot class!! Needless to say, we did not place, which was okay. He still did better than I would have ever planned being with me for only a month. I was so proud of him.
Beautiful head shot by Dom
Schooling, he's so handsome.
First jump ever, he wiggled up to it and had no idea what he was doing, good effort.
Shadow and Dom
In the show ring, one of our brief nice moments
After the show, we continued working on the same. Leg yields, trotting, framing up, bending, and trying to hold his nice trot. Which is where we are leading up to this week. In between that time, Dom had set me up with a fellow stb owner who had also adopted from SRF, Jess. Jess and myself had been talking for awhile and we finally set a date to meet when she had returned from her honey moon. I went and sat in on one of her lessons with Danny Warrington and met Spyder, who I think is Shadow's cousin actually. It was good for me to see, it gave me hope, more than the show did. Spyder is further along than Shadow and it good to see someone on the same path as me, they are great pair and I love them already! Jess is hoping to get a trailer soon so we can do more together and include BOTH horses rather than one of the boys and both of us.
I had another lesson last night and Jess came to visit. Dom reassured me she no longer feels anything wrong in Shadow's hip, which made me feel great, thank you Smart Pak! Jess said she didnt expect Shadow to be this far along already and told me he looked great. He is doing really well, he frames himself very nicely and can really get beautiful trot, but he still cannot hold it for that long, a couple strides and we fall apart. I'm getting inpatient, but I see his potential and I have a ton of support, so I need to relax myself. He does great and he gives me his all time and time again. I know we will get there, especially with Dom in our corner.
Just a quick shot of him, I can't get enough.
09/25/13 photo taken by Jess. Working on holding our medium trot with Dom.
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