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TBT – 3/13/14

March 13, 2014

This week we are throwing back to 1996, and the IMGA World Team Championship that was held in Sweden.

I was 17 years old and had just graduated high school. Ah the memories.

My team traveled to England, met up with some of the GB team riders, picked up ponies and then we all headed to Sweden via ferry.

It was a really exciting trip but not so great on the riding front. We ended up with pony trouble of and eventually were eliminated from the competition. Not a fantastic out come at all.

I do remember that although it was summer, it was cold. There was a small beach we could walk to from the grounds and the ocean was full of amazing jelly fish. We had one pony named Boris, who quite fit the name and reminded me of a triceratops dressed as a pony.

In the team photo the MGAGB team (who I the giant Toblerone bars and trophies went to) are in the back, and in the front the US team, from left to right: Joe B, myself (Krista), Colleen M (now R), Chris R, and Mark W. Our trainer was Robert T.

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TBT – 3/6/14

March 6, 2014

I took riding lessons for a few years before I got my first pony, Skippy. This is the only photo I have of him. That’s me on his back at my friend Emmy’s house. Her mom, Mary helped me tack up in lent tack. Skippy ended up being too much pony for me at the time and was returned shortly. A few years later he would have made a nice games pony.

Funny story. When we returned Skippy to my dad’s friend. He rode the pony up rt15 for at least 10 miles to Eylers horse auction to sell him. I bet he was dead quiet when he got there.

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TBT – 2/27/14

February 27, 2014

This is a small competition that was held in Kentucky in the early 2000 time frame. My sister, Kerri and I rode with my long time teammate, Mark and one of his students.

This is when I was riding Osh Kosh and was still athletic and could vault! Ahhh, the good old days.

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TBT – 2/20/14

February 20, 2014

This photo is from October 1998 and was taken at the Erin Fall Fair in Canada. I was coaching the USMGA team at the competition. My sister was riding my pony Osh Kosh and I hopped on for a quick photo.

This was the trip to Canada that the driver’s side door got ripped off my parent’s brand new truck I was driving. Although it was completely not my fault, I was still banned from driving it for years. I am not sure if I am *allowed* to laugh about that old memory yet (I am sure my Da would say no, you’re not).

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Here are a few more photos from that same weekend

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TBT – 2/13/14

February 13, 2014

This photo is from my first Pony Club Nationals. It was about 1988 give or take a year. That year mounted games was held at a different venue than the rest of the event. It was at Frying Pan Park in Herndon, Virginia.

I was riding on the Frederick Pony Club junior team. We were the second team from Capital Region, behind Howard County Pony Club accepted.

We had 20 something or other points taken off before the competition started for having a parent in the barns, which was impossible to make up. We were not the best team and I think I was the only vaulter at that time. We came in an amazing last place, 13th I think, pale green ribbons. But we had a ton of fun.

I was riding my long time pony, Berry. She was a 14.1h strawberry roan Arab cross mare. She was a hand me down pony that took me most of the way through pony club and then did the same for my sister.

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