The Equestrian News

I wanted to thank Jim and Lani Muche for writing such a nice article about Hottie and I. I also want to thank Nancy Cole at The Equestrian News for making Mustangs a important part of their paper! We can use all of the publicity we can get! Jim made sure to include my sponsors that make this possible for me to do! Without them, I would not be able to afford to compete in this event!

I want to thank my sponsors again! Caren Bramhall who allows me to keep Hottie at her facility, Michelle at Damoor's Feed and Tack in Burbank, CA who supplies all of Hottie's food, suppliments and anything else I need! Karen Monroe at Wells Fargo Equine Insurance Division who has insured Hottie, and Virginia at Great American Insurance for taking the risk of insuring a wild horse! I hope they will be with me again if I am able to compete in any future events! This is for sure a team and if you want to join the team go to www.cafepress.com/reedperformance and join TEAM HOTTIE!

Crappy video, cute mare!

This is Hottie in the arena today. This is the first time she has been out of the round pen at the trot. She is so cool! You can see her cute little shuffle jog. It is so smooth to sit! After the trail ride yesterday it all clicked for her and she is doing amazing! Forgive the terrible quality and random talking by my mom to Sydney! Grandma is baby sitting and videoing at the same time. I am going to have to figure out a different video source than Mom's blackberry. It sucks!

WOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The famous "yuppie trail" we were awesome! Mom is riding Dixie and I am comfortable enough to be taking pictures!

This is the Ronald Reagan Freeway we have to go under it to get to the trail! We again were AWESOME!

They call this a park because it has 2 little informational building thingies.

We came across 3 groups of people. NOTHING rattled Hottie I am so proud of her. We even came across another horse of the opposite direction on the yuppie trail that had a man riding with a big hat and she passed like she had been doing it forever.

This is our famous "hands free bridge" it has NO railing and you see how far down the drop is. NO PROBLEM!

Our "creek" my husband is from Arkansas and has assured me this is NO CREEK but it is all we have! Again NOT A PROBLEM! I think Hottie wanted to roll in it but that wasn't an option so we moved on.

I am very much looking forward to Sunday and the little show I think she is going to handle everything very well!