This is Ruby - My Mustang
and  Martha Josey on her gelding.

This was the first time I have ever met Mrs. Josey but she is an amazing person with a wonderful personality that will have you laughing and will leave you with life changing impressions.

"A girls got to do what a girls got to do!"

This is Ruby's stall

I made a book about Ruby that I gave to her new owners.

I also had an assortment of pictures of the other 3 mustangs and of course upcoming event flyers.

Buddy and Alice

Buddy is wearing the shirt they gave us.  It has the event sponsor on the shirt and identifies us as trainers.

This is the back of the arena...

All the horses in these pictures are mustangs.

On the left you have Barry with Ms. Priss
and
Michelle with Faith

By the way Barry has changed Ms. Priss's name to Karma

These are pictures of Ruby and I after the sell...

It was such a sad feeling to know that it was my last time to ride her.

Comforted by the fact that she was going to a good home.

With luck I will be able to see her this summer and with her new owners consent I will be able to ride her again.

I forgot to tell you all... Prior to the sell I was warming Ruby up in the arena.  A potential buyer came over to the fence to talk to me.  Ruby was really not wanting to stand still.  After 3 days of a stall I could not blame her.  She would try to go left and would block her, then she would try to go right and I would block her.  We weaved back and forth for a few mins and all at once she lunged through the wooden fence.  She never lost composure as she busted the top board.  The wood breaking was like a gun shot!  She paused only slightly when her front feet made contact with the ground and then bought her hind feet over the fence.  She was spooked nor upset...
The only thing I can figure is that since I would not let her go left or right forward was the only option and as Buddy told me I have ridden Ruby through everything imaginable she never doubted her ability to do it.

The pictures below are of the in hand competition

Back up

We had to make the L with the mares while backing up
and not stepping out of the lines.

Trot over logs

Pick up all four feet

turn in the box to the right and then to the left

trot through the cones

and out of the arena.

This was the first part of the competition and Ruby

was favoring her hind right foot.  The judges called it in the arena.

This is her trotting over the logs in the beginning part of the course.
She did not want to pick up the trot over the logs

When we got to the speaker system Ruby came to a stand still and would not go forward.  Considering all the spectators in the stands, banners on the walls I felt that she did well.