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Name– Katie
Age– 15
Location– Meridian Idaho
Horse’s Name– Heres Awesome, AKA “Owl”
Info– Owl is a 16.2hh off the track thoroughbred; he raced and was a pretty good race horse before he came to an eventing barn called “Mittleider eventing” the home of Sara Mittleider herself. Where he went on to compete to the CCI2* level and advanced in eventing. He was actually in a horrific trailer accident when the trailer was sandwiched in between two semis, with two other horses in the trailer, he broke his pelvis, and the others were okay. He went on to have a swell recovery and went back to compete advanced at Rebecca farm, but then he got a horrible nose infection where he couldn’t compete for 2 years, until we finally fixed it. And I am Sara’s working student and she is allowing me to compete him to training level this year, then up to preliminary next year, i am so excited, but bummed because Sara will be in Germany.
Level currently competing– Training
Short Term goal– To make a relationship with Owl, and to become a team.
Year end goal– Do the training 3 day at Galway Downs International event.
Overall goal– Go Preliminary with him, and to keep him happy and healthy and to eventually do a preliminary 3 day!
Best thing I’ve learned so far– How to ride a horse into the contact and make them use their hind end, Owl is a lot like a noodle, since he got in his trailer accident, so I’ve been working on keeping him at straight as I can.
Favorite eventing moment– Last year I was competing a chestnut thoroughbred that has never evented named Piccolo, and the first event we went to was Rebecca farm, may I remind you this was his first one ever, and we got first in all three days, he was amazing, I wasn’t going there to try to win or even place, just to have a good time, and a good experience, but instead I left with 500 bucks and a big blue ribbon!
Katie and Owl schooling
