Velvet - Did it work?
Well, Chocolatier it would be hard to know, since your profile list very little about you and your location. I would have no way of knowing that. 
There are no answers, only the search.
Home to the stallions Zillionair, Issue of Gold, Gold Card, and Pure White Gold.
http://www.norsire.com
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<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Janet & Belle are just as lovely in person too! tle & Pixie Dust’s pics are always fun to see…but maybe I’m just partial to all the cool eventers. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Thanks.
Unfoirtunately (or fortunately if you look at it that way) she was unable to post the FIRST picture I sent her, which had LOTS of things wrong.
Janet
chief feeder and mucker for Music, Spy, Belle, and Brain
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Electric Tape doesn’t have a mother. Electric Tape just emerged out of the manure pile one day. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
You know something … you just might be ON to something there … 
I know about his father, but I have never seen, nor heard ANYTHING about a mother …
I wonder if you are right. That would explain an awful lot of things …
“Spot”
Yay LMH!!! Thank you!!! 
I could look at pics of your farm all day long - and I say that knowing full well that you have at least 500 of 'em over there. 
Janet#5
(Music at YRCT) Music doing the Prelim Combined Test (YR Benefit) in 2002.
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. Oscar Wilde
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MistyBlue:
we all need to advertise.
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yes, but not here where its not allowed.
more?
When you find yourself on the edge of a cliff, a step backward is progress
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Killian:
The one who originally said it! That was just so funny.
So, someone stole it as their tag line, huh? I guess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, however irritating! 
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by WingedPanda:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Oh, and the “where’s the fruitbat” girl.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
The one who originally said “Where’s the fruitbat?” - or the one who swiped it and uses it as a sig?
_One of the lessons of history is that Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
- Will Durant _
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Yes, I suppose it is, and since I say “WTF” more than anyone I know, I suppose I needed a good excuse as to what I REALLY meant
I took it out.
-Kelsey-
ET is actually a very good rider. I’ve seen pics 
I think I may even have one on my computer at home…I’ll have to look.
Serendipity -
Great Bay, Phillipsburg, St. Maarten (Dutch side). Wanted to go to St. Barts as well but we were on a cruise and didn’t have a lot of time. Think we’ll fly to islands next time.
Robby
Dance and sing get up and do your thing …
I think Norsire is just pissy because Fran Drescher called wanting her hair back. 
~Humble pie doesn’t taste too good…
I’ve seen pictures of Erin-the-moderator, so there. 
I want pictures of Louise. Oh, and definitely more pictures of him. If I had a boyfriend, I’d break up with him for that guy. Mein gott.
~Erin B #1
What is Irish diplomacy?
It’s the ability to tell a man to go to hell,
So that he will look forward to making the trip.
For those who said they wanted to see pictures of the moderators, here’s one of me and the REAL Portia (she’s the good looking one).
[I]I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell.[/I]
Ok, here’s me, and my horse… (I don’t have any pictures of me ON the horse, which is weird, actually…)
[I]One of the lessons of history is that Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
- Will Durant [/I]
Kels and Winged Panda…
I found the fruitbats! Here they are…I think they’re DQ’s though. Looks like they’re getting ready to have some wine…
http://www.secretworld.org/image/high_resolution/Fruitbat2.jpg
Equine Crash Test Dummy
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I would like to see a photo of Norsire’s face when she realizes that having her website in her signature scares business away.
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Why, Prairie, you’re just SO PC! “Interesting and full of personality.” I like that. It’s just so nicely stated. You made us sound nice. I think Louise would agree that that’s a very difficult task and that you should be rewarded. (BTW, I don’t think putting my picture up here would be any sort of a reward. Probably more like punishment…for someone. )
But thanks for putting my name on the list…I think. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Velvet - You’re welcome. I often get a grin out of your posts, and just wanted a face to go with a name. If you’re camera shy though, no problem. I’ll still look forward to reading your posts.
I want to see a picture of Electric Tape! Preferably jumping something over 5’
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> What a stunning horse! What was he? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Sorry- this ended up being a lot longer than I intended.
Golden Rocket was a TBxQH (by QH “Rebel”, out of TB “Sunny”- those are the barn names, not sure of the registered names). He was bred by, and was a school horse at, Sunnyfield Farm in Bedford NY.
When he was young, Sunnyfield was owned by Mrs. McIntosh (A&P heiress), and was the home base for the USET (before they got Gladstone), so the young horses were ridden by the USET riders. When we bought him, I was told “Mike Page trained him”. When I met Mike Page a few years ago he said (paraphrasing) “I rode him some, but I wouldn’t say I trained him”.
Sunnyfield had a couple of trainers originally from the SRS (Mr Zavulovich (SP???) and Werner Platzer). Karen McIntosh Collins (the owner’s daughter) rode on the US Olympic Dressage team- I forget whether it was Rome or Tokyo. So the school horse got a really solid dressage foundation, even the ones that were primarily considered jumpers (as Rocket was).
When Rocket was 12, Mrs. McIntosh decided to sell off all the horses in the 7-15 yr age group. At the time, no-one knew why, but it later turned out that she had been diagnosed with leukemia. The older horses would be retired to her other farm somewhere in the south (supported by her estate), and the younger horses would be sold when she died. But she was afraid that these horse would be “to old to sell to good homes, but too young to retire” when she died. So she put them on the market then.
It was the strangest horse buying/selling process I have ever seen. We were new to the horse world, so we didn’t know just how strange it was.
There was an ad in the paper, saying that there were good school horses for sale. When you called up, they wouldn’t tell you ANYTHING about the specific horses.
When you got there, you had a LONG interview in the office, with Mrs. McIntosh, and the trainers. At the end, they said “I think she should ride Rocket.” We were not given the opportunity to even LOOK at another horse. They had me ride Rocket in a lesson. One of the trainer came and inspected our barn and pasture.
“You can buy Rocket. The price is $500” (this was 1965, and that was about the top of our budget). No possibility of negotiating. “The price is $500, take it or leave it.”
He took me from just starting to jump over cross rails, and could not sit his trot, to getting my Pony Club B.
While he was primarily known as a jumper, he got a bit arthritic as he got older, and you had to ride him “right” to a fence. If you dropped him, or he sensed that you were not 100% committed, he would stop. I almost always got at least one stop cross country.
On the other hand, while dressage was not his original strength, he had very good training, and we were usually in the first 3 after dressage at pony club rallies and horse trials (first after dressage in our first recognized horse trial, at Training, when Training was first introduced as a new lowest level). I will never forget the first time I sat a really correct collected trot on him.
A year later, we bought another one of the Sunnyfield horses, Meadow Lark, for my sister. Meadow was a full QH, by the same stallion out of Joan’s Yellow Girl. Ironically, she was considered a dressage specialist- but hated it, and cleaned up in the Children’s Hunter divisions when they were first introduced.
Janet
chief feeder and mucker for Music, Spy, Belle, and Brain
