daughter took this yesterday the unretouched photo taken here at home, he was just vacuumed off to remove the dirt
Fig is doing well, growing nicely standing about 15.2. A pleasure to handle, learning the basics and wanting to do more as he watches Lexie being worked he says he can that that, but just needs to wait some more
here is was at five months
WOW, how handsome, what a beautiful youngster. 
Marvelous picture, she has an artist eye. 
older daughter who is professional photographer took this, Figâs breeder is doing something for the Morgan Horse mag they wanted a current photo
The breeder has had three of the last four world champion sport horse in hand,
here was the first of the series Prairie Hill Socrates, this is Socks as a two year old, Socks and Fig are half brothers
the breeder showed one of new stallions last year taking the overall championship (Lexie won the mares division, missed reserve world by 1/2 point)
Wow Happy birthday Fig. He sure is handsome. Great shine for a winter coat! or any coat 
What a handsome boy!
Beautiful picture and a beautiful fellow!
Gorgeous horse and definitely Morgan 
I need to follow up with a photo of him in the paddock with Lexie, she is âthe bossâ that Fig respects.
Over the years as the horses were shown, the desired had always been to have a world champion. We have always had nice horses who were very competitive gaining a few national championships in various disciplines over the years but never got that desired top award.
Socks was the first to bring home a world championship in a highly competitive division. When he did so, that win help the breeder to be recognized for their long time breeding program, all of the related offsprings saw an immediate increase in the value of their horses.
The day Socks had to be euthanized in the pasture was really the day when we really wanted to just walk away from horses. The response from professionals we know within the close Morgan community was what brought back the light of a horse. Offers came in from across the country for a replacement, some were unimaginably kind, offering a very well bred horse at no cost that they would even pay to ship it to us.
Daughterâs trainer who really liked Socks offered daughter a horse he had in the pasture, one that was very well bred but was just setting in the pasture because they really did not have the time to work their own stock since they had a full barn of clients. That horse is Lexie, a five year old who had not been worked with much at all, never saddled just hanging out in the pasture. It is not a surprise that Lexie has become a solid citizen as has the bloodlines of champions. The surprise was how quickly she responded to backyard training. First saddled in May, taken to her first show ever in July trying to just get her qualified to take her to Morgan Nationals in October. The hope had been to just get her qualified as she was competing against imports in an open class A dressage show. Compete she did winning all four of her classes. So on to nationals in October were she surprised all winning her divisionâs national and world championships. The trainer when told he needed to stop by the show office to pick up the breederâs award for breeding a world champion was shocked.
Sockâs breeder offered the first pick of any of the years foals that would be for sell, Sockâs mother was the last foal and seeing it was another bay colt there was no question about which one was wanted. That is Figment who the breeder brought to us at nationals. The since he was there it was decided he should see what the show was all about so he was entered into the same division his half brother had won two years before. Nothing great was expected just had the hope that he would stay in the ring. Stay? He was not concerned at all, did everything asked without questioning a single command. He looked like a little pony in that class of forty aged horses but he outscored them all (even beat Sockâs score). That was why in the photo about of him with the breeder and her daughter with my daughter and her BF and my wife the smiles are of reconnection that reflect the breederâs program of developing nice horses. This was at the same show where Lexie won her division.
So in the paddock are two horses between them have two world and four national championship and they are just backyard horses.
We are glade the breeder is seeing the reconnection they deserve,
But Socks is still missed each day.
Wha a story! 
Merry Christmas! 
the show that he is a real Morgan is he wants to help with everything, if picking his paddock he is right they grabbing the forkâs handle to help.
I would say the breeder did a wonderful job in what they call their foal kindergarten training, but Fig I believe has gotten most of his calmness from his dad. The sire is Lone Star Longmire, Fig was just his second offspring. Lone Star Longmire I believe will become a recognized sire of sport horses, there is video of him at age three working cattle in at livestock sales barn where he is calmly with little effort pushing cows into the chutes .
The photo that is first in this thread was requested by the breeder who is doing either an ad or an article about their breeding program.
well we just want people to know a person can win the top awards with backyard trained horses who are not in an extensive training program where they are worked daily, ours will often go for months without anything special being done.
We are nothing special, we have been fortunate in selecting nice stock to work with.
Congrats to your family for your success in your âbackyardâ
Training program.
Fig is a beautiful young horse.
Very handsome guy.
he should be as his dad is nice
Lone Star Longmire with owner Susan Motter photo credit Prairie Hill Morgans
Yes indeed. Handsome family!
thanks but all we have done is buy him, he has been an easy keeper that likes people
he has a full sister that if we had the room would have been nice to have, she is in North Carolina now, this is her baby photo
Prairie Hill Glory photo credit Prairie Hill Morgans
Yes you bought him, but you are raising him from a weanling and doing a good job of it. 
But you are special, especially your daughter, whoâs put in the work. Many people start out with the best bred, and ruin them.
I remember when you lost Socks; you were all devastated, as were we reading about him. If you werenât good people, you wouldnât have received all the offers.
Congratulations to your daughter (and the entire family) for going thru the hard times and getting well-deserved rewards. Itâs great that she is supported by her family, who seem to also be getting a lot of joy out of your horse journey.
Iâm glad the universe is smiling on her now. Thereâs probably a lot of âregularâ people out there doing as well in the show ring, or wherever they chose to do their horse life, and itâs great to see the results.
Thanks for keeping us updated on the journey.
We have been involved with the Morgan breed on a national level since buying our first one, Shamrock Foxie Joy. For a decade we ran the Morgan Youth Club for north Texas, there were about thirty five active kids in the program. People we met while running this youth group many are still friends. One, Peggy Hatfield, has been the Grand National Show secretary for longtime.
Peggy makes sure that our daughterâs stalls are grouped next to her trainerâs group, people who do not know she is independent would not know the two were separate operations. One thing for some reason our daughter always wanted was to wear the number 1 exhibitor show number, numbers are assigned as entries are processed. Peggy processed daughterâs entry first the year Socks won his World Championship so she was wearing number 1 , pretty neat that the number one horse was presented by an exhibiter wearing number 1.
When Lexie won her first World Championship a trainer at the show we have known since the very early 1990s stopped daughter to ask about Lexie as the trainer said Lexie really looked like a duplication of Foxie. We had not really thought about that until she spoke up, yes Lexie is almost a reproduction of Foxie down to the snip on the nose. Since that win Lexie has racked up several national championships and a reserve world, that trainer with a smile on her face always reminds daughter that Lexie is âalmost as good as Foxieâ.
Really the Morgan community is pretty close
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