From: pattee@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Donna Pattee)
Subject: Another horsey bio
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:45:34 GMT

Ok, it's my turn, and it is difficult.  I'm Donna Pattee, and I work at 
Computing and Network Services at the University of Colorado at Boulder
as a systems programmer in Large Systems.  My husband and daughter and
I have four horses now:

Poco (Miss Poco Penny), the pouty paint mare, almost 14-years-old, about
   14.3 hh.  She used to belong to me but now is my husband's because
   they are tempermentally a better match.  Poco is hyper-sensitive, a 
   great trail horse, she hates showing, and she has navicular.  Her goal
   in life is to be a broodmare.

Corrie (Terpsichore), a grey, nine-year-old, 3/4 Arabian and 1/4 T-bred
   mare, also about 14.3 hh.  I've had her since she was three; she has
   had some dressage training and some pretty solid reining training. She
   loves to show, loves dogs, cats and little kids.  

Reggie (WR Rigel), 25-year-old, bay, Arab gelding, maybe 14 hh when his 
   feet need trimming.  He's retired now but was my daughter's first 4-H
   project horse and was also a therapeutic riding horse for a couple of
   years.  Reg is solid as a rock and would still be out there packing
   around kids except for his bad lungs.

Jinx (Dandee Bar Jinx), sorrel nine-year-old, AQHA gelding, about 15 hh.
   Jinxie is my daughter's current 4-H project horse and her dressage 
   horse and has been the absolute gem of the horse world, winning almost
   every Western pleasure class he was in last year and placing in the
   high 50s and low 60s in his first year in dressage at the same time.


Unlike a lot of other people who have written in, I didn't ride as a child
and wasn't especially horse-crazy ever.  In fact, I learned to ride 7 years
ago because I was so afraid of horses, and I don't like being afraid of
things. By the time I had finished my first seven-week session of lessons
I was hooked.  Within 6 months I was half-leasing a little buckskin 
mustang, and within a year I had gotten Poco and Corrie (who was saddle-
broke, period).  At about the same time that I got my two, my husband 
decided to start riding, too, and got a giveaway Arab gelding who was
just too nutty and unpredictable for anyone else to want.

A couple of months later we got Reggie, who was about 200 lbs. underweight,
as a rescue project and for my daughter to learn to ride on.  Once we all
had horses, there was no turning back.  Cat, my daughter, has had Jinx for
four years and shows him and Corrie more every year.  Mike has pretty much
quit showing since Poco hates it so much, and I show Corrie every now and
then in reining and arena trail.  We all prefer riding Western (I haven't
ridden English since Corrie was 4), although Cat does enjoy dressage.

Our good news is that we just got a house on eight acres in Lafayette (about
10 miles from Boulder) with a four-stall barn and lots of level space for
an arena and round pen.  We are all really excited and can't wait to move in
and bring the horses home!!

Way too long, but it's hard to find a stopping place . . .

(Your turn, Kris!)
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