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Topic: Recent road trip - "losing" a horse and gaining new friends (Read 852 times)
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Tannenwald Trakehner
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TANZBRISE by Windfall out of Tariana
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Last weekend trainer Jenn and I had a pretty nice trip to the east. We delivered our Guy Laroche-Tanzelfe filly to her new home in Columbia, Connecticut. It was great to meet her new owner, Rochelle Drisco. Rochelle is an FEI rider and along with her business partner operates Grand View Stable, with two locations in Columbia. Our "Gipper" (now Rochelle's "Toujour Félicité" AKA "Felicia"  ) will be Rochelle's future personal mount. The facility is very beautiful in the surrealistic setting of New England. But we were very sad to say goodbye to our little "Gip," enough that Jenn said "OK, we aren't delivering any more horses."
Our next stop on the road, coincidentally only an hour away in Sutton, Massachusetts, was to visit the Grandbois family and "our" mare, Itamiga. We had not seen Maggie since she was five months old, four years ago. It was a real treat to meet Linda, Ed, and Maggie's owner, their daughter Stephanie. Their home is lovely and the visit really made the trip. Maggie is beautiful, and gigantic. She is the largest horse we have bred, standing 17 hands with another inch or more to come. She is an athletic and very good-natured daughter of Kaspareit and our Itamignon (Avignon-Pregelstrand), and the family loves her. Steph rode her for us and Jenn gave her a lesson, and the pair have very good potential. Steph, a senior at Worcester Academy, will take Maggie along when she heads off to college next year.
Coming home, though, we had electrical problems with the trailer and wound up stranded in Pittsfield, Massachusetts overnight.  Definitely not the high point of the trip, but everything can't go perfectly, can it
Back at home, it is hard to see one less little face in the field where Gipper was, but she reportedly is doing well and settled in to her new home. And meeting Maggie again and her people was very nice, showing us what can become of our kids once they fly the coop 
I posted new photos of Gipper--er, Felicia ...--and of Maggie on our website for anyone who is interested. They are linked from the "family" page and from the "sales" page on our site at atrakehner.com.
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It does sound like a worthy trip, though. I'm glad my last horse-delivery trip was short and easy. No breakdowns with the borrowed truck. Good thing too, because my own truck was already down with a fried differential bearing. I'm SOOO glad it went two days BEFORE I had to deliver my 6 yr old TB (been for sale for 5 years) to her new home. The trial period ends Wednesday, but is going just super. And, like your horses, this one is in a great place with a mom and little girl who are thrilled with her. I imagine they'll be fighting over her soon. Poor Fuzz, she's going back to broodmare duty now that the TB is gone and I'm riding her first kid.
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Tannenwald Trakehner
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Trailering is still new enough to me that it is stressful under any circumstances, but I can't complain about how the foal travelled. In fact, I don't think I will EVER think trailering ISN'T stressful--I give people with the nerves to haul strange horses professionally a lot of credit!
Congrats on placing Fool Em's daughter, fuzzy!
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Thanks! After all the oodles of ads for that horse, it was my jumping coach (an old friend of Allison and her brother Rick, believe it or not) who hooked us up with her new family. He has students at a barn 30 miles from me, and the mom and daughter were shopping for their first horse. They had looked at a lot of other horses, but found nothing that was decent - mostly QH's who were either nutty from being rodeoed or too slow and heavy to get out of their own way. They had to settle for a "well started" green TB, but with more advanced kids in the barn, and two good coaches, it looks to be a great match.
I would agree that trailering stresses 99% of the horse population, but then you have that adventurous 1% who LOVE to go places. I knew one of those in 4-H, and have one now.
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