Welcome to the page of Laura, a C-2 member of
Sangre
de Cristo Pony Club, and I live in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Can ya tell from the desert cross-country course, or what? This is Goose
Downs Farm in Galisteo, where we meet every month. They have fences from Beginner
Novice through Advanced, so it's a great place to school!
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This is Peachy Keen, a wonderful 19-year-old appendix quarter horse mare
that I now event and Pony Club on. She's very funny and sweet, the kindest
mare you could imagine, but she's very bold over fences and takes a very
tactful ride in dressage or she'll curl up like a shrimp. We won a 4th, a
5th and an 8th at Novice this year, always clean cross-country and in stadium,
and we'll be moving up next season!
Before I had Peaches, we leased Rainmaker, an adorable 6-year-old Percheron/Thoroughbred
mare I evented in 2000 at Novice level and got my C-1 on. As you can see from
her face, she's a total pet. We got a 3rd and a 6th at Novice that year.
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Here I am as well on my mom's Prelim event horse, Gracie, a 15-year-old
Thoroughbred mare that I learned to event on in 1999
and took to Watermelon Mountain and Grass Ridge Horse Trials.
Here's me with my old horse, Cowgirl, a New Mexico-bred appendix
quarter horse mare who actually hated to jump, so we didn't do any eventing,
but had a lot of fun just playing around. I got her when I was 10.
This is my first pony, Poppy, a Shetland/Arab cross, at a horse show
at Los Alamos Rodeo Arena in Spring of 1997. Poppy died of the complications
of old age that same year, so we're happy that she was able to put in one
last victorious appearance. I won the walk-trot equitation class, and Poppy
managed to avoid any panic attacks over the cattle in the stock pens so it
was a great day.
