Prairie Hill Socrates... won the Stallion/Geldings Sport Horse class at Morgan Grand Nationals

[clanter]

@trubandloki

From my experience, attacking is the whole point of many of the threads in current events.

attacking the poster is one thing but going after their children is not acceptable to me but evidently is for the owners of the board. End of discussion.

[trubandloki]

You can share the joy of your kids here and in off topic.

[Bluey]

@clanter

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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He looks sharp there!..
Waiting on that awesome set of show pictures.

Congratulations on the wedding and new addition to your wonderful family.

Never mind the CE fiefdom and those ruling there.
Is just how they communicate, wielding rough verbal bats.

[anon6003733]

Spectacular news @clanter! What a rush for all involved :applause:

[Polydor]

Congrats! He’s turning into a very handsome boy.

P.

[Flurry84]

Such a joy to read this thread. Congratulations to your daughter, the whole family, and the breeders of your boy. I also remember the saga of bringing him home through the tremendous snows. We are loving this!

[luvmyhackney]

Yay!!! So happy to read this post! Ignore CE and just post about the kids and this gorgeous fellow. Love following his success and your family’s stories.

Shame on you for posting that website filled with Morgan’s. Now I really want one.

[SLW]

Congratulations to your daughter and her horse in OKC, fantastic outcome!!

[exvet]

Congratulations from someone who recently re-joined the Morgan owning enthusiasts. Your daughter’s Morgan is turning into a very attractive and handsome individual.

[PaddockWood]

@clanter

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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I LOVE THESE PICTURES. What a testament to the breed. How is this not such feel good COTH story on the front page and now with the Championship title coming out of your backyard?

[Graymaresrule]

@Chall

Congratulations and I’m so happy to see you! I looked for your posts all over, (found Mike Matson,thanks to one poster, on FB).
I look forward to your “looking at the sunny side of life” posts and your horses, both the show winning ones and your beautiful rescues.
Hope all is well.

PM’ed you

[Claddagh]

Adding my congratulations to Socks (he’s spectacular), your daughter, Sock’s breeders, and of course to you and your wife for raising such solid citizen children! ⭐️

[BAC]

Congratulations Clanter, it sounds like a huge win although I know nothing of Morgans. It sounds as though everyone here is familiar with Socks and your family, sorry to say I was unaware of them until now. I will have to start paying better attention!

[clanter]

Aimee corrected me, this was not her first Morgan National Championship, she won her First with our Foxie horse…Shamrock Foxie Joy… Aimee took her to a Western Mare In-Hand National Championship as a kid.

Foxie was shown so much I really did not remember Aimee winning that class but she has the metals and stuff that goes with that championship.

I do not even have a photo anywhere of that presentation or of the class

So here was Foxie and Aimee In-Hand… the lower part of the photo is of one of her students tens years after the top photo who was loaned Foxie to be shown

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Aimee and Foxie after winning a western pleasure class and yes you could pass a 12 inch ruler between her legs… Foxie was one sturdily built horse that was often mistaken as a King Ranch Quarterhorse
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[Chief2]

Congratulations!

[Training_Cupid]

Congratulations!! What a huge accomplishment!!
I know nothing of the morgan world, do they do straight dressage or is it something different?

[clanter]

@Training Cupid

Congratulations!! What a huge accomplishment!!
I know nothing of the morgan world, do they do straight dressage or is it something different?

They actually are used in all disciplines. The Sport Horse division that Socks was in this year would lead to Dressage and Eventing. There was a full range of Dressage at Nationals. Her trainer is one of the top Western Dressage trainers for Morgans. Eventing is not held at Nationals but the horses compete in open competitions.

Socks was judged by a Dressage judge in his class.

Daughter’s prior horse loved the challenge of a cross country course. He could actually clear jump a five foot fence, that is how we found out he like to jump as I would find him in a paddock wit another horse thinking daughter had put him there and she thought I had then we saw him clear the paddock fence to get in.

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[Bluey]

@clanter

They actually are used in all disciplines. The Sport Horse division that Socks was in this year would lead to Dressage and Eventing. There was a full range of Dressage at Nationals. Her trainer is one of the top Western Dressage trainers for Morgans. Eventing is not held at Nationals but the horses compete in open competitions.

Socks was judged by a Dressage judge in his class.

Daughter’s prior horse loved the challenge of a cross country course. He could actually clear jump a five foot fence, that is how we found out he like to jump as I would find him in a paddock wit another horse thinking daughter had put him there and she thought I had then we saw him clear the paddock fence to get in.

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Looks like he was fun to jump.

[clanter]

@Bluey

Looks like he was fun to jump.

she set up a chute to send him down to see if he would clear this improvised jump set at 5ft 6 inches

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and he liked her dog

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This was the same horse that jumped on top of the concrete picnic table… she wanted him to look closely at it, he thought she want him to jump up there… they wee coming back from the stadium jumping of a three day when she saw this picnic table that had been built by the WPA back int he 1930s. Top of the table was 42 inches above grade. She was on him when they approached the table, he stopped short, she cues him forward… he takes that as oh jump up there. I was watching, I never saw him move…he was on the ground in front of the table next thing there they were on top of the table…looked just like a military statue of some famous general on his horse.

Next was the panic … What did he DO was all daughter could say…followed by How Do we Get Down?? …all I could think was that table is going to crumble with that 1150 pound horse up there… suggested to daughter that she let him have his head. loosen reins then ask him to step forward… he looks down at the attached bench thinking about stepping onto that but just went straight to the ground like the whole episode was no big deal

I went back to measure that table… 3 feet 6 inches ground to top …and the table is still there.

[quietann]

Great results! He’s a handsome fellow. I missed being there this year, but since it was officially “no spectators” this year and I just started a new job, it wasn’t going to happen. I’ve been 3 times and there is nothing else like it.

My friend Liz had two of her homebreds there – Sutton Remembrance GCH, who cleaned up in Carriage as usual, and Sutton Terra Cotta who won two Training Level dressage classes, though he’s only 4 and has some growing up to do. Liz has two more babies from his dam, a level-headed bay yearling gelding and this year’s black filly, who is a firecracker like her mama.