This led to me to start thinking about how happy Snoop has been lately, and how hard he is staring to work for me. (Yes, I cheated and brought him back into light work early. He was becoming insufferable for his pasture mates and humans!) I think this is starting to turn into a true partnership, not a "me against him" or vice versa thing. He wants to make me happy and after Midsouth I truly believe he is starting to take his job very seriously. He wants to make me happy and I'll do what ever it takes to keep him happy! He loves the new barn too, but more on that in another post.
I find so much joy in watching or riding a horse that truly loves it's job. It doesn't really matter if it's an event horse, a race horse, a dressage horse, or a horse happily packing it's child around their first cross rails division at a hunter show. Hickstead, Zenyatta, Teddy, Out and About, Blue Hors Matine, Henny, and my old upper level horse The Provost-just a few of the horses out there that have given everything they have every time out because they love it. I'm still just a horse crazy little girl at heart and one of the qualities about a horse that will always be at the top of my list is it's try and it's heart. Without those two things talent doesn't always mean much.
I leave you with Cozy Sunday's view of the racetrack every morning. She's not the most talented horse in the barn, but she tries harder than all of them put together and takes her job very seriously. She has yet to run, but we will soon find out how far that big heart in that little body will take her!
PS: In my quest to try new things and because of my general love of all sorts of equine athletes, there is a trip in the works to go ride some cutting horses! Don't worry, I'll be sure to get a video that should be worth a few laughs since I have no idea what I'm doing!
Until then......GO HORSES!
