My Very First Blog.....Awwwwwww

So this is the beginning of my blog entitled “DESTINATION: WORLD SHOW CHAMPIONSHIP.” I am the sometimes proud, sometimes disgusted owner of a Sold Paint Bred yearling gelding. I am proud because he is AWESOME! He is by Artful Investment and out of a Dirty Sonny mare. He is dark bay, almost black with two hind socks and a blaze. He is super fancy mover and my goal is a World Championship with him. I’m disgusted because his lack of qualifying spottage makes him an outcast in his breed (APHA). This is an awesome gelding and he’s considered a second class citizen. Oh well, on a positive note, his dam and her side are up for their Quarter Horse papers so it looks like he will be double registered sometime in the future.

I’ve owned Art (CEO Solid Investment) since August 2007. I found his ad on Dreamhorse when I was curiously searching for a breeding stock to show at our Arizona APHA shows. My friend Sherry had a breeding stock and her boarder also had a breeding stock and we were discussing how we could help promote SPB in AZ. So with the help of my then fiancé, I purchased Art for the cost of a couple months’ board. I already had a colored Paint yearling that I was showing, but he wasn’t turning out to be show quality, so I decided that if Art had the goods, then I was going to sell this gelding and concentrate solely on him. Art ended up having the goods and more - so bye bye colored gelding (he’s now living life as a riding horse for a rancher’s grandkids – much better fit!)

So here I am with my SPB gelding and I’m starting to have visions of grandeur…..I think he might be World Championship material. I know it’s hard to tell with a weanling, but there is something about this guy that has me all doing the happy dance.

So now Art's a yearling, he’s been gelded, been shown at a couple of Arizona Paint Horse Club (APHC) shows and keeps proving to me that he may just be my next World Champion. He's been winning all his In Hand Trail classes and in two weeks will be our first Futurity where he will be showing against regular registery (RR) yearlings as well as SPB's. I'm really starting to get nervous, which is unusual for me. I just really want him to do well, which I totally believe he will - I'm more worried about me. I ended up making some really novice mistakes last year while showing my RR gelding and I just don't want to end up doing that again.

Well, time to go to the ranch. Until next time - happy showing!