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- From: kudra@hubcap.clemson.edu (sallie j kudra)
- Subject: Another Bio
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.201010.15192@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:10:10 GMT
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- Hi, thought I'd get in on this biography wing-ding. I'm Sallie Kudra and I'm
- a programmer/analyst for Clemson University in Clemson, SC.
-
- I've been horse crazy as long as I can remember and I turn 40 tomorrow. I
- distinctly remember going to a carnival when I was around 3 or 4 and riding
- on the pony ride. I cried and pitched a fit when the ride was over because
- I thought the pony would go with me when I left. Every Christmas I would ask
- Santa for a pony to be tied under the cedar tree in our city neighborhood in
- Columbia. Alas, I was always disappointed. Never could convince my mother
- that we could keep it in the basement!
-
- Well, at the ripe old age of 13, I begged for about the 10 thousandth time to
- have a horse. My father had bought a 166 acre farm about 20 miles from Colum-
- bia in a little town called Gaston. Mama said that if Daddy would keep it on
- the farm, she would buy me a horse. Telephones were not built to be dialed at
- warp speed which is what I did in calling my father. I had found and Chieftan
- was bought within 10 days. He was a 7 yo grade gelding that at one time must
- have been used as a reining horse. If your leg came over his back in a dis-
- mount move, he'd stop on a dime. I was green and convinced nothing could ever
- hurt me, so I feel God put my guardian angel into gear to find Chieftan for me.
- When I left for college at 17, I gave him to my younger sister.
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- I haven't had my own horse since then, but have two friends who have 3 Morgans.
- Lynn says that Aries aka Piggy aka Pig Monster aka Miss Piggy aka Monster is
- mine. Lynn just owns her. Lynn and I are NATRC members in Region 5 (which is
- essentially all of the US east of the Mississippi River and parts of Canada)
- and have been competing in competetive trail rides for a little over a year.
- Aries is an absolute dream to compete on. She is steady and for the most
- part stable with usually impeccable manners (she can get b*tchy, but what mare
- can't?). Aries and I competed for the first time last July and she proved
- what a trooper she is. The vet at the ride told us she was 20+. We thought
- he was kidding, but he wasn't. Hmmmm, this is beginning to sound like Pig's
- bio and not mine.
-
- My husband and I bought a house with 7.69 acres almost 4 years ago. The acreage
- includes a beautiful pasture which I hope to get fenced before long. We have
- been trying to get the grass in better shape than it was when we bought the
- place. Kinda hard when you don't have a tractor. Once it's fenced and we
- get a least a run-in shed built, I hope to be able to find the Morgan of my
- dreams, preferably of Whipporwill Duke or Applevale Boy King lines. My husband
- loves horses as well, but has bad back problems and hasn't ridden in years.
- Maybe we can find him a Missouri Foxtrotter that won't cause him problems.
-
- I have ridden western, English and bareback, but tend to compete in English
- gear using a mechanical hack (Pig much prefers a hack to a bit and I can't
- say that I blame her at all!). Nothing compares to bareback riding though
- English comes closest for me.
-
- Have to get back to work now. Hi to the folks I see on Equine-L and to
- all the folks I see here in r.e.
-
- Sallie Kudra, owned and operated by Arielle, Melanie and Cali (felines)
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- You may be right, I may be crazy | Sallie Kudra
- But it just may be a lunatic you're lookin' for | kudra@hubcap.clemson.edu
- Billy Joel | kudra@clemson.clemson.edu
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