A FEW OF MY BEST FRIENDS
I'd like you to meet Purchase Power and Granite, two of my favorite teachers.
Power was a strong bodied, strong willed off-track Thoroughbred, OTT, which means he began his life as a racehorse. He was my dream come true and since he was one of the first horses to council about taking a wiser, kinder approach in my relationships with horses, he had to beat me over the head with the proverbial baseball bat–A lot. But he had Granite to help him. Granite was owned by a student of mine who put him in training with me to solve a bucking problem. He was an Appendix Quarter Horse, meaning he was two thirds Thoroughbred in his bloodlines. Probably the biggest clown of a horse I will ever meet, our early relationship suffered from my stubbornness, but then,... Oh yeah, read the book, right?
Power was a strong bodied, strong willed off-track Thoroughbred, OTT, which means he began his life as a racehorse. He was my dream come true and since he was one of the first horses to council about taking a wiser, kinder approach in my relationships with horses, he had to beat me over the head with the proverbial baseball bat–A lot. But he had Granite to help him. Granite was owned by a student of mine who put him in training with me to solve a bucking problem. He was an Appendix Quarter Horse, meaning he was two thirds Thoroughbred in his bloodlines. Probably the biggest clown of a horse I will ever meet, our early relationship suffered from my stubbornness, but then,... Oh yeah, read the book, right?
Portrait of Purchase Power, pencil, by Nancy K. Camp, 2003
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TESS Tess, a Quarter Horse yearling filly, was my first Idaho horse. I bought her in 1981. I trained her for dressage and jumping. I sold her when she was eight years old so I could buy Purchase Power. |
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