Then on Christmas Eve 1997 I received a video in the mail and was blown away. It was a beautiful 18 month old filly for half my looking price. I must have watched that video 10 times that night, then took it to every dressage rider or trainer I knew to figure out what was wrong with her to be sold for so cheap.

When nobody saw anything wrong with her, I called the owner and booked a flight out to see her.As it turned out, the owner also had her full brother, who had cleaned up in showing in hand(twice winning 1st at Dressage at Devon), and his sister had not been as successful (she placed 4th at Devon), so how good can she be?

Broadway Lights and I hit it off from day one and I got her vetted and placed a deposit down on her before I flew back home 2 days later. Broadway reached her new home on February 10, 1998 and she and I have been building our relationship ever since. Together we are endeavoring to master just a tiny portion of the Mountain better known as Dressage! Never in my life did I think that I could go from complete frustrated and in total awe at the space of a moment, but here I am riding, learning, beating my head against walls, just to be astonished at a tiny accomplishment, just to repeat the process all over again.

In 2002, I got Sundance going again, through the help of modern medicine. If I can grant him a little comfort and allow him to get out on a trail ride or two, I think his life will be greatly enriched. He, along with the 2 newest equine members of our family, Stormy and Nina, are keeping Broadway on her toes and her mind off of the task of trying to understand what her crazy Mother is trying to teach her today.