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- From: pattee@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Donna Pattee)
- Subject: Another horsey bio
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.234534.29558@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:45:34 GMT
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- Ok, it's my turn, and it is difficult. I'm Donna Pattee, and I work at
- Computing and Network Services at the University of Colorado at Boulder
- as a systems programmer in Large Systems. My husband and daughter and
- I have four horses now:
-
- Poco (Miss Poco Penny), the pouty paint mare, almost 14-years-old, about
- 14.3 hh. She used to belong to me but now is my husband's because
- they are tempermentally a better match. Poco is hyper-sensitive, a
- great trail horse, she hates showing, and she has navicular. Her goal
- in life is to be a broodmare.
-
- Corrie (Terpsichore), a grey, nine-year-old, 3/4 Arabian and 1/4 T-bred
- mare, also about 14.3 hh. I've had her since she was three; she has
- had some dressage training and some pretty solid reining training. She
- loves to show, loves dogs, cats and little kids.
-
- Reggie (WR Rigel), 25-year-old, bay, Arab gelding, maybe 14 hh when his
- feet need trimming. He's retired now but was my daughter's first 4-H
- project horse and was also a therapeutic riding horse for a couple of
- years. Reg is solid as a rock and would still be out there packing
- around kids except for his bad lungs.
-
- Jinx (Dandee Bar Jinx), sorrel nine-year-old, AQHA gelding, about 15 hh.
- Jinxie is my daughter's current 4-H project horse and her dressage
- horse and has been the absolute gem of the horse world, winning almost
- every Western pleasure class he was in last year and placing in the
- high 50s and low 60s in his first year in dressage at the same time.
-
-
- Unlike a lot of other people who have written in, I didn't ride as a child
- and wasn't especially horse-crazy ever. In fact, I learned to ride 7 years
- ago because I was so afraid of horses, and I don't like being afraid of
- things. By the time I had finished my first seven-week session of lessons
- I was hooked. Within 6 months I was half-leasing a little buckskin
- mustang, and within a year I had gotten Poco and Corrie (who was saddle-
- broke, period). At about the same time that I got my two, my husband
- decided to start riding, too, and got a giveaway Arab gelding who was
- just too nutty and unpredictable for anyone else to want.
-
- A couple of months later we got Reggie, who was about 200 lbs. underweight,
- as a rescue project and for my daughter to learn to ride on. Once we all
- had horses, there was no turning back. Cat, my daughter, has had Jinx for
- four years and shows him and Corrie more every year. Mike has pretty much
- quit showing since Poco hates it so much, and I show Corrie every now and
- then in reining and arena trail. We all prefer riding Western (I haven't
- ridden English since Corrie was 4), although Cat does enjoy dressage.
-
- Our good news is that we just got a house on eight acres in Lafayette (about
- 10 miles from Boulder) with a four-stall barn and lots of level space for
- an arena and round pen. We are all really excited and can't wait to move in
- and bring the horses home!!
-
- Way too long, but it's hard to find a stopping place . . .
-
- (Your turn, Kris!)
-