Cool giveaway! I'm going to tell a little story about my baby sis. But if anyone spills this to her, you're dead! First rule of being a big brother is that she can never know that you are proud of her. NEVER!
As a young teen, my parents bought my sis a small horse, her lifelong dream. They figured she would ride a little, have some fun, and grow out of it. LOL!
Very soon, both my parents and the man where the horse was boarded discovered that my sis was a very determined little girl. And tough! See this horse needed a bit a training, and my sister wanted to know everything about how to do that. No matter how many times he threw her off and bloodied her face! And little did my family know, but this man who owned the farm was also involved in an organization that participated in horse shows around the country. And my sister wanted to do that. Very badly! So he taught her, and she trained the horse.
Then she talked my parents in to taking her to these horse shows. And very soon, she wasn't just participating. She was winning!
I could probably make this longer, but I'm sure that would bore you all to death, so suffice to say that for several years as both a youth, then as a young adult, she won countless show championships and National championships, with the culmination being the International Pinto Horse Show of 1984 where she was named the National Queen - Miss Pinto of America, to serve for a year as an ambassador to the organization.
Her second horse was retired as a Supreme Champion!
She and her husband currently own a small farm, and she's down to just one horse at the moment. But after taking a couple of decades off from showing to get her daughter raised and married, she's looking to make a comeback. Yes that's really the same person, 40 years later. I believe she was one month shy of turning 60 in this photo!
