Thursday, January 18, 2007
Looming Sale The Great Lakes Draft Horse Sale is looming ever nearer as the days pass. I’m really at a cross road about selling The Bob. Duane and I agreed that we needed to stick with a plan and that plan happens to be showing mares. With that in mind we decided to sell off 2 of the geldings that we currently have and only keep one, which has earned the right to stay on as a permanent fixture. The problem is that my daughter has a connection with The Bob. At 11 she has claimed him as her horse and rides him when it strikes her fancy. Unfortunately her fancy was about 6 times in the last 3 months which isn’t enough to justify him being kept just on the merit of her usage. I know she loves the horses but she just doesn’t appear to have the same drive and passion that Duane and I do. It’s disheartening at times because she likes to ride and has a fantastic seat but forget about much help cleaning tack, feeding and doing a good job grooming. As far as I’m concerned if you want to ride you have to help out with the other stuff.Its always hard selling a good horse, one that you actually like to ride/drive and in general be around. The Bob has been an excellent parade horse too and that makes it even harder for me because he always has been a horse that I knew I could trust for that kind of thing. He has many outstanding qualities but he is not a mare and its mares that we are working on showing and we hope to put together a 4 up so that means that a couple need to go or Duane will have to build another barn to house the overflow and then hire someone to keep up with the work because I just cant keep up with all that’s necessary to condition, train and show the number of horses we currently have. I sure do miss the days of caring for 5 head of horses. At that number I could work with each horse on a very regular basis and still do all the normal stuff associated with keeping horses. The eight we have right now are just too much and even though its only 3 more it sure is a heck of a lot more work. At least that’s what I keep telling myself.
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