YAY!! Thank you for sharing.
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Yep, it is nice to be part of following famous horses and their stories as they are happening.
Seems that Socrates is starting out as one of those.
Thanks for letting us follow along.
:applause::applause::encouragement:
Congrats!
To your daughter, Socks & your support for both.
Looking fwd to those pics…
Woop! Woop! Go Socks!
the ranch Prairie Hill in North Dakota should be recognized. Paul & Susan Motter raise some very nice reasonably priced , unnoticed horses. The youngsters are handled with love, taught from an early age to be the best they can.
Socks is my daughter’s second Prairie Hill horse, Mulligan was her first then when he crossed the bridge my daughter contacted the Motters then she saw these videos of what was to be her next horse…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VXKzykXn9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68F7qQTM2nM
she asked me what I thought, my thought was he looks nice and you know the Motters so there is no need to see him in person. She contacted Susan and they completed a purchase contract sight unseen. She boarded him there until he could be picked up in between blizzards in March.
It is hard for me to look at the Prairie Hill web site as I want to buy all the horses
https://prairiehillmorgans.com/
Here was Socks when he was picked up by my daughter and wife
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I am sure his breeders are over the moon with happiness. What an exciting ride!
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Congratulations on the win and welcome back. Some of us have missed your posts.
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Hip, hip, hooray! Congratulations!
(and I’ve wondered where you went…)
to me it is more about the struggle my daughter has had to be successful as to succeed just does not happen (at least for us)…there are the ups/downs along the way… we try to learn from the mistakes (hopefully to not to be repeated) …with a goal of providing the opportunities to make the horse or the person the best they can be…and have fun along the way.
We have been showing Morgans since 1990. The friendships made are really heart warming as the Morgan community has been mostly all encompassing no mater what station of life a person comes from in the outside world.
We were fortunate from the beginning to buy a very nice yearling Shamrock Foxie Joy who was to become our kid’s mount for many years (we had Foxie until she dies at 28)… some of my favorite photos along the way is of Foxie and Aimee
this was afterwards of a parade where she rode Foxie, they were six years old
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these two grew up together, that is Aimee in the pink when she and Foxie were three (youngest son Luke is in the saddle)
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but this to me telling it all, we wanted our kids to help others and to share what they were fortunate to have… Aimee and Foxie with two of daughter’s grade school friends in our backyard
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Cogratulations Clanter, you and your family are living the dream I always had. I am so happy for you and I will try to see if I can find and watch the archived class 
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Congratulations!
We want pics! We want pics! We want pics! 
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I am waiting for the show photos and release to post, there should be some special photos from this afternoon’s presentation class as it only for Dressage and Sport Horse top twos. My wife is with Aimee but the rings are big and photos from a phone would be limited.
so… here is his last year’s photo as a yearling in-hand
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he has grown six inches from these photos, weight is now about 1050. He gets nothing special, just hay and grazing, eight ounces of oats morning and evening as a carrier for his allergy meds
here is his Two Year Birthday photo
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notice his knees … we were concerned but several well known trainers were just saying he has a lot of growth yet to come. When I say he is going to be huge, that is relative to our normal Morgans who were average 14h to 15h. We are now expecting Socks to end up as a mid 16h horse where we had been hoping for 15.1 range.
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Congratulations!!! Beautiful horse - and lucky to have landed with you and your family.
That’s spectacular news! Thanks for the update – I’ve loved your heart-warming horse (and dog) stories, and appreciated all the useful information you’ve shared over the years, too, so you’ve been missed.
From picking Socrates up in that knee deep snow (I remember that photo of the departing horse trailer carrying him) to his winning a World Championship in 98 degree weather, it’s been some adventure - congratulations to your daughter!
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He’s beautiful. And you’re right, all the ones on their website are too.
He is SO beautiful. WOW. Yes, I was in despair when I heard you might have left. I’m building the barn and need you! AND enjoy your stories and family and the horses. Can you promise not to leave again?
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How wonderful!! Thank you for sharing this exciting news-- congratulations to his breeders and to your daughter!! More photos and updates, please. Morgans are such special horses!!
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Congratulations to your daughter and to the breeders of her lovely horse! ðŸ¾ðŸ¥‚🥂
Well done!
it was 98F here in Fort Worth, the show is in Oklahoma City…it was 87f.
there have been times where I would read Socks the weather report from Cooperstown, ND… it would be minus 30F with 40 to 50mph winds in a blizzard… here he was grazing on winter grass in the mid 50sF
After kind of being attacked in the Current Events over the success of our kids I just thought it was time to leave. Our kids created their own successes, we just used our horses as a tool to help them learn about life. Aimee, who owns Socks works three and half jobs not because she has to but that has how things have worked out. … she is a high school biology teacher at an inner city magnet school where she is also head tennis coach, she works as vet tech for a really nice small vet practice who hired when she needed a job before becoming a teacher, the vet will not let her leave and she works for Sock’s trainer as a groom this just kind of happened after she started taking Socks to him for help then her found out she really knew what she was doing so he hired he to him him and she also does the braiding for the show string of nine head. (one of his clients is a young lady who was in the same Morgan Youth club as Aimee, she just doe not know that Aimee who went by Karen in the Youth Club is a person she knew back in the 1990s)
Sara our oldest and really was the most talented rider…she was a natural… our trainer told me I could not afford her as she could ride much better than what I could buy…so she spent her childhood summering in Kentucky on the show circuit there as a catch rider for trainers who needed their client’s junior exhibitor horses to gain ring experience. She rode for the fun of it, today she has Bonnie for her twins (well, really Bonnie is hers)
Luke our son just liked to hang around, but he learned how to meet people of wealth at the shows. Today he has used that ability to become a highly respected video director who just got married last Thursday to the most wonder young lady. (here is link to their videos that made while quarantined after returning from Norway, Hieldi’s parents are both surgeons in Norway) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhNL…Y_O4szJpX6KlgZ
She is very, very talented and a true treasure …what a really nice young lady. Her best friend divulged after the wedding that Hieldi told her from the very first meeting of Luke that she was going to marry him
OK just got an after show photo that my wife took as they are preparing him for his presentation this afternoon (daughter is over joyed, Socks is wondering where the next meal is ) … there are many that the show photographer has taken that we will get afterwards…those I cannot link as they are copy-written and I respect his ownership. We will get releases upon purchasing them… there is one that was taken just after it was announced that he was the class winner that is priceless
Aimee is 5ft 11inches so Socks might be taller than 15.1 now as he stands taller than her shoulders
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From my experience, attacking is the whole point of many of the threads in current events.
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