CAYENNE | 13 YEAR OLD OLDENBURG MARE | CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
Lucy, Cayenne, is an Oldenburg Mare. Her sire is Cabalito, her dam is Go Lightly who is by Hasty Growth. She was bred by Emily Woodall.
Lucy is one of my own horses. She is the queen of the barn, and knows it. I have owned her since she was a 2 year old and every minute we have spent together has been incredibly special. I first met Lucy one evening at the Pin Oak Charity Horse Show. We were at the Grand Prix with some friends from the barn, and a friend and I had gone to watch the warmup arena when my Mom called and said to come upstairs above the arena because “she had just bought the horse that was just in the arena.” Well apparently I had missed the parading of a 2 year old into the arena between show jumping rounds and I immediately freaked out thinking my Mom had gone crazy and bought a Grand Prix Jumper! Much to my surprise when I got upstairs there was a picture of the flashiest little 2 year old chestnut filly.
My Mom had gone straight upstairs and started bidding on Lucy in the silent auction and wasn’t about to give up. She ended up being the lucky one and was writing down her final bid just as they said that time was up. We found out all of the details and headed down to the barn to go meet our new horse. There was Lucy, laying down in her stall sleeping. When we opened the door she stayed laying down and let us walk right in to love on her, and we fell in love.
After quite the ordeal loading Lucy into the horse trailer, we were finally headed to the barn. We gave her a bit more time to finish growing up and then sent her to Brian Sumrall to put some rides on her and get her ready to be ridden. I will never forget the first time I sat on her back at Brian’s place. We went out to the track out back and rode her around and even went and rode her out in the fields and she was an absolute angel. The next 10 years or so were a whirlwind and Lucy may not have been ridden all of the time but she was always there ready to go. Eventually while in College at Texas A&M she ended up with me and lived at Freeman Arena and we rode in the horsemanship program. Lucy was the one and only english horse in a sea of western horses twice a week during our training classes and she handled it like a trooper.
After our semester doing that we moved her to the Flying Ace Ranch, where she enjoyed yet again being the only english horse in a sea of barrel racers and ropers. Riding at night with my friends were some of my favorite memories in college. Soon after that I moved Lucy to Windy Knoll Farm in Magnolia,TX. I told my Mom that I wanted just a few lessons with Fran Dearing Kehr for Christmas, because growing up I had always admired Fran and wanted to ride with her. A few lessons with Fran quickly turned into an opportunity of a lifetime, and I was offered the opportunity to be Fran’s working student. Lucy and I trained with Fran and ended up showing in a few shows together.
After graduating from College and starting my own business, life happened and became absolutely crazy! I spent way too much time working on my business as my Wedding business took off and I built my Newborn Photography Studio. Lucy was ridden off and on and was always ready to go when I asked. I eventually made the decision to breed her with the hopes of having the perfect little foal that would be my next horse. I bred Lucy to Supremat OLD and she had the most amazing filly, Calypso.
Since her stint as a Mom, Lucy has gone back to work and we going through the slow process of getting her back in shape under saddle. I can’t wait for her to be back in her pre-baby shape and hopefully back in the show ring. My husband and I have been living in Missouri and we currently have the horses at a Hunter Jumper Barn, Katalyst Sporthorses. In true form spending time around all of these Hunter Jumpers has started rubbing off on the Dressage girl, and we have started doing some pole work and we have even hopped her over a few little x’s. I have always laughed because I took the ultimate hunter bred horse and turned her into my dressage horse, but I am quickly finding out that it may really be in her blood and she might actually like jumping. The second she thinks that she is headed towards anything, even if its just a pole on the ground she perks her ears forward and her expression completely changes…maybe it’s because she thinks she can leap over anything..which she does..and try to see what happens when she jumps me out of the saddle over a ground pole.
