Jawhari was just a scrawny yearling when I met him.  I had recently moved to Texas and needed to get back into horses to save my sanity.  I met his breeder and started visiting the horses at her place. He would be the first horse at the gate when I arrived and the last one to leave when I left.  I  fell in love with him, but he was waaaaay out of my price range.

Two years later, the breeder needed to sell him and offered me a great deal. I begged my husband for this horse.  I even put him on our shopping list when we went to the store and talked about him endlessly.

When we picked him up, he was barely halter broke.  Training took a long time because graduate school interfered.  I made training mistakes, but he was patient and forgiving.  When life gets tough, I can cry on his shoulder, feel better, and move on.

He and I moved to Michigan and then back to Texas.  I’ve been his only trainer.  We’ve gone to shows, made mistakes, worked through them.  Then we went back.  This spring, he and I went to our first show in five years.  He won his class, and I almost burst into tears.  He’s a winner in so many ways – not only in the show ring, but in my life.  He’s helped me keep my sanity.  He’s taught me to be a better horse person.  And he’s always there.

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