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What If My Daughter Wasn’t An Eventer?

Jenny Caras and Fernhill Fortitude. Photo by Leslie Threlkeld.

What if my daughter wasn’t an eventer:

Would I know what it was like to take a kid to the barn at 4 a.m. to get ready to go to a show or hunt?
Would I ever see the sun rising because we’ve been on the road since 2 a.m. for a 12 hour drive?
Would I ever experience what HOT and COLD really are??
Would I ever know what it was like to teach a teen to drive a truck AND a trailer?
Would I ever know what it is like to see her heart explode in excitement because we bought her her first horse?
Would I feel her agony as she learned one of her favorite horses won’t ever compete again?
Would I ever know what is was like to watch your child do things she had only dreamed of?
Would I ever know what it was like to turn your precious child over to someone else to train to conquer new, uncharted territory on a horse?
Would I ever know who Karen and David O’Connor, Julie Burns Richards, Phillip Dutton, Boyd Martin and Leslie Law are?
Would I ever know the heart pounding effect of watching your child leave a start box at any event, much less a 4*?
Would I ever know what USEA and USEF stood for?
Would I ever think my child would not go to college but instead to choose to ride and make a career out of horses?
Would I ever know what magnificent creatures horses truly are?
Would I ever know that I would watch lesson after lesson after lesson and never get tired of it?
Would I know what it is like to have my own horse farm to care for my kid’s horses that are retired because I love that they are part of her?
Would I know what it was like to spend time watching her on YouTube because now she is old
enough not to need me to drive her to lessons or shows anymore?
Would I know what it is like to be glued to the computer watching for live scores for shows I can’t attend?
Would I know what it is like to have daughter that is happy and LOVE what she does?

I don’t know the answers to these questions. And I’m lucky not to know, because I’m so proud to say my daughter IS an eventer! And like many others of you out there who have a daughter or a son just like mine, I’m very, very thankful to be a part to the eventing community! Kick on!!