Champion
#184. Dark Bay, Standardbred gelding.
Appx. 15.2 - 3 hands. Appx. 12 - 14 yrs. This is a gentle horse
who rides and drives. He has a freezebrand on his neck. He is underweight
but is in good health. A very sweet horse. He would require an intermediate
rider or someone familiar with driving.
7/29/00 - Yee Haw! This lovely
gentleman has a new home and a new name! Special thanks to Mathew
for saving a Champion! This is what Mathew has to tell us ......for
today
Mission accomplished. Rescue successful.
It was extremely hard and there were major problems. Our boy earned
his new name. CHAMPION! I have been hard at work since three this
morning and just in by nine to type this. I will tell the story
tomorrow when I am not exhausted. Rest assured this horse has
a home. And yes Gail I hugged him for you, and planted a big wet
kiss on his nose! Mathew
Update 10-3-00 - We got some real cute pictures
this week and had to send you this one. Champ is being ground
tied in front of the stage here and working on his latest trick.
Brushing things. We are trying to get a picture of him brushing
another horse. I may even be able to teach him to paint. Notice
that this fat happy horse is hardly recognizable as the horse
posted on the T.I.E.R. site. This horse is perfect for this project.
He has a minor limp after hard work that put him in harms way
but for our purposes he is perfect. A jousting horse has to stand
around in a pretty costume most of the time at a show. When it
does perform it is to run a straight line for one hundred feet
at most ten times , do a few spins maybe and with no more than
a half hours work stand around in a pretty costume again. Training
is much harder than performing in this sport. If I can teach this
guy enough tricks he doesn't have to do much work and can still
be a really effective posterboy for horse rescue. I am working
with a local reporter for the new times on an article that is
looking like a cover story. I will make the plight of the Standardbred
my main subject and hopefully make my first P.R. contribution
to the cause. I assume you don't mind that I gave the reporter
the address of your web site.
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