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eskielover · Sep 28, 2008, 03:40 PM

Being in Kentucky & away from my filly who is in training in California, I almost missed her birthday.....(what kind of mommy am I?????)

She has been in training all this year (tried to start training last year when she turned 3, but she was sick with strangles & wasn't able to be ridden or worked very hard. So we started training the beginning of the year.

She has become a very solid, sensible trail horse. She stops & thinks about something before just freaking out about something. (she has been that way since she was born). It is wonderful to see that trait that I saw as a baby has followed through into her riding. Considering she is 17 hands high at the withers (most horses are about 15 hands high 1 hand = 4 inches).

My trainer decided that she would give Izzy a chance to show herself at the beginning level dressage show today.....what a wonderful way to mark her 4th birthday.

She is such a special horse to me as I never dreamed in my life that I would ever really own a horse, & then when I ended up owning a horse, I never imagined that I would end up with one that was born out of a mare I owned or would even have the kind of bonding that happened between us. It is truely a miracle in my life.

I am missing her so much & am working on getting a shelter built with fencing so I can have at least 2 of my horses transported here & I can start enjoying Izzy again. It's days like this when I realize how much I really miss her especially & how much I miss being able to ride whenever I feel like it.

What I find most interesting here in Kentucky is that I met a lady who has invited me to ride with her to help exercise her horses. She & her husband own 1000 acres with trails that are tree covered with streams & fields covered with flowers & several huge lakes. When I ride with her, it's like riding in the dreams I had as a child. The exact same feelings & sensed riding through the woods. How I could have ever imagined as a child what the reality of riding in Kentucky woods would have ever been like is awsome. It is a strange feeling when reality is exactly what a childhood dream was.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IZZY!!!!!!

Never realized how much love I could have for a horse before she was born. I loved my others, but she was just so special.

Debbie