July 9, 2010
Before I got Blossom I leased a mustang named Gator but I called him Sparky because of his wonderful personality and strawberry roan color! Last year I went to this mustang show (I was telling you about) I won two big belt buckles (the size of my face!!) I was really proud because this kind of thing doesn't happen too much. I had a wonderful and great relationship with Sparky that was valuable and I wanted to be kept for ever, but one day Ann, his real owner (Ann let Sunrise Stables take Sparky for awhile but wasn't clear if she was ever going to take him back so I rode him and formed a tight relationship) called my trainer, Tracee and said that in the next couple of days she would come and get Sparky!!!!!!! That devastated me, I couldn't stand it!!! But during the course of the next couple days I spent basically the whole day with him. But then that day came when I was riding him and Ann's big red truck pulling a trailer came into view and Tracee told me to keep riding him because Ann was early, so I did but eventually I had to get off and Tracee had Sparky touch noses with his friends as a way to say good-bye. I pulled my tack off and put it on the rail and walked Sparky into the one-horse trailer which was very nice, clean, air-conditioned,had food and water in it. I watched as the trailer drove away. I stepped onto the little hill to watch the trailer drive all the way down the long driveway. I started to cry but wiped the tears and went to put my tack away in the barn. There I cried for awhile or until the lesson in the arena was over. Now almost every time I think about him I start to cry and I can't keep my mind off him!
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