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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010

My Zephyr

Zephyr, my beautiful solid black APHA gelding, will go down in history as the horse who taught me the most. For a while, anyway – there may be another one who comes along to keep going with what Zephyr started.

The challenging thing about Zephyr is that he used to have a very small happy medium. He used to change very quickly from thinking to reactive and back again. If I wasn’t assertive enough, he would decide that I wasn’t the leader and try to take over. If I got too assertive, he would get scared and upset. Finding that happy place was a constant challenge for me.

Zephyr and I have been together for five years now, and every year he matures more and becomes more confident – and maybe a little less cocky! I used to think that he would be an ‘evergreen’ horse, but he is proving me wrong.

Since I co-own a horse training business, my own horses often get left on the back burner. We have been busy with our sales horses and one in for training, so Zephyr had been on vacation. Finally on Monday, I had the opportunity to bring him out.

The contrast between him and the youngsters I’d been riding with so apparent after not being on him for a while. He was so attentive and quiet, so focused and ready to work. After being on our smaller horses, his gaits felt all the more athletic and big.

In other words, I was in heaven.

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