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| Joined: | Wed Jan 28th, 2009 |
| Location: | Troy, Missouri USA |
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I first started riding when I was 6 years old, then went on to train 3 day eventers, racehorses, and showjumpers for a living until I was 21 - sense kicked in - and I decided that I better get a 'proper' job that actually paid a decent wage that I could live on!
So I dropped out of the riding scene for quite a few years, got married, had 2 children, got divorced and on it went. I very occasionally went for a ride with a friend, but that was about it, horses were way too expensive for me to even consider at that time in my life.
Wham bam, suddenly completely out of the blue, I meet my future husband! He was in England working (he is American), and we met in a restuarant, me on my own reading a book at a table (I was away on business as well) and him entertaining a client at the next table! We got chatting (like you do;) and we had so much in common, but I didn't think too much about it as he lived thousands of miles away from me. We kept in touch by phone and email after he returned to the States, and he came over to England a few times when he was working. He invited me out to his home the next summer, and I came over for 2 weeks.
At that time he had 4 horses, 3 foxtrotters and a TWH. I had never ridden western, let alone a gaited horse! But climbing back in the saddle again was just one more part of the dream come true. We had so much fun those 2 weeks, and my husband to be was even more thrilled that we shared a love of horses between us. I could not believe the wonderful nature of foxtrotters, and what a thrill to ride a gaited horse, I had to have a lot explained to me as it was a completely new experience!
To cut a long story short and many trips over here later, we decided that we had to spend the rest of our lives together, and we got married at the top of the Stratosphere in Vegas in January 2005.
We have changed the herd around a bit since, sold a couple of horses that we weren't riding very much, and now have 4 foxtrotters. My husband still travels to Europe, China etc - and I am lucky to work from home. We spend as much time as we can out on the trails, its just such a wonderful thing to be able to do. I feel very grateful that although my life changed dramatically when I moved over here, it changed for the better, and I once again I could be involved with horses. It really was and is the 'icing on the cake';)