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- From: amerritt@dante.nmsu.edu (Angela Merritt)
- Subject: Another Bio.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.164429.7540@nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:44:29 GMT
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- I've enjoyed reading about all of you so much I finally got up the
- nerve to write mine! Ok here it goes....
-
- My name is Angie Merritt. I'm married with no kids, but I have a
- housefull of pets (my husband calls 'our zoo'), and one horse who
- lives at a boarding stable near our home. I was another horse
- crazy kid who collected every kind of plastic horse and read every
- horse book I could find. I started riding at the local
- rental stable and graduated to lessons (western), when I was about
- 12. After asking my instructor when we were going to learn how
- to jump (thinking naturally that must be next after walk, trot, and
- canter), she sent me off to the local 'english' stable. I was
- very lucky at this point since the local 'english' stable just
- happened to belong to a man by the name of Lowell Boomer. Lowell
- was one of the founding members of USDF and was doing dressage
- long before most people ever knew what it was. I did learn to
- jump, but soon found my heart was in dressage. I eventually
- progressed through 3 horses and was showing 2nd level before I
- went off to college. My one claim to fame was that I had won
- the Nebraska Dressage Horse of the Year award (1979 I think),
- and was runner up the year before. I gave it all up while
- going to school, then I got married, got a job.........
- Finally last year I started taking lessons again and I was
- hooked. I bought my horse Sultan last spring and I've been
- enjoying every minute since. I'm never going to give up this
- hobby again! One nice thing about dressage is there is
- lots of older role models out there. Sultan is a green ex-race
- horse who I hope to show training level this year (that may be
- pushing it :-) ), and maybe some eventing. I am totally
- convinced that I was a much better rider as a child. My muscles
- and brain have a life of their own now and operate independently
- of one another but I am working on this.
- Right now I'm working as a programmer/analyst for the Physical
- Science Lab in Las Cruces, New Mexico. And like some of you
- have mentioned work can get in the way of keeping up with
- the net :-). I've posted a few times, and answered a few
- through the mail, but I read most everything. This group
- has been great! I've really received alot of good advice
- and information. Thanks so much all of you!
-
- Next!.......
-