Good Bye Dusty

I think I am not supposed to have a new show horse. Last year my yearling gelding I had kept to be my new show horse broke his leg at his hock and I had to put him down. I then showed "the old man" (Daddys Legacy) another year. It was a good year, but I was looking so forward to showing my new two-year-old. This summer I kept a different yearling to be my 2-year-old project to start and show this fall, Dusty. Well, yesterday he broke his neck in a freak accident in a hay feeder. Seemes he stepped into the feeder, reached his head around the next bar, went into a panic, and broke his neck. At least this is the scenario we are thinking happened as all we found was a dead horse draped around a hay feeder. He was fine at morning chores, but dead as a door nail when Stan went to blow snow out of the bull yard after lunch. I was so looking forward to showing him this summer. I had been taking my time letting him grow. Every time I would try to push him a little more with grain, hoping to show him at halter as a yearling, he would grow taller. This fall I decided that was fine as he was going to be big enough for a riding horse for me. He was already 16 hands when he died. Of course it had to be him that decided to be stupid. The one I had picked to be mine rather than sell. I guess if I decided to show this year it will have to be the "old man" again this year. Maybe I will just be a horse show mom this year with Joellen and her horse. I really like to ride her horse. Maybe she will share Uno with me and we can show some trail too. I guess it will be two more years now before I have a two-year-old to show. I better make sure not to doom them and pick them to be mine!