From Meg:
What Up EN. I’m towards the end of my very boring and very uninteresting week on my bum. It seems in the last few days, Baby Sarah has arranged her soldiers (clients) in an orderly fashion, and is staging a mutiny. I figured while I still reign control over the barn, I would allot young Sarah a few moments on the internet to give you a little insider information on who she is and where she hails from since I speak of this young’un so frequently. I swear I didn’t write the first paragraph. So here she is …. Baby Sarah and her little Chiclet teeth.
Hello Eventing Nation,
If any of you guys read the famous Meg Kep blog…. I am the infamous baby Sarah, or Young Sarah to some. I have known Meg from when I was 6 and she was 13, she was my fist riding instructor. I learned all great things from her (nothing bad cause Megan doesn’t do bad.)
I started in the hunters, I rode and showed ponies. I got my awesome little OTTB Convict when I was 15. We were pretty successful in the hunter ring. In December 2010 I got a Facebook message from Megan saying that she needed someone to come work for her and her boss Sinead Halpin, for 3 months in Florida. After talking to my parents for maybe 10 minutes they agreed, for some reason, they seem to trust Megan, and we set everything up. Convict and I were on our way to New Jersey.
Coming from the hunter world and knowing nothing about eventing or who Sinead was, I had no idea what I was in for. We left for Florida on January 13th 2011, and I did my first event at Ocala horse properties a month later. I didn’t know what to expect from my horse or myself. We had done many shows in our career together but nothing like this. I was nervous and excited and it was a great learning experience (aka: I fell off and cried). Now I am sitting in sunny Florida for my second year, (the 3 month limit didn’t work out for me) with more knowledge about horses, riding, teaching as well as a training level horse hopefully moving to prelim this fall. I now have new goals for myself and my horse and a new outlook on my life in the horse world. It has been a wild adventure, and so the adventure continues. I came in to the eventing world a little late, but, it’s better late than never!
Now I am going to make Megan buy me dinner and demand respect that baby Sarah deserves!
Well, Sarah’s 10 minute allotment of internet time is up. You gotta keep these kids away from the INTRAWEB before they get idears of Harry Twilight and Hunger Girls.
This is a quiet weekend on our farm, but an exciting weekend at Red Hills for others! Good luck to everyone competing this weekend.
May the odds be ever in your favor.
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