The Promotion Spotlight is on Jackie Wyandt and her Morgans.

This is my new 6 year old dun mare, Amberfields Jazztime Moro #0152634.
I got her in the middle of July of this year.  She came 1 1/2 weeks before our
breed demo at New Salem state park, so I had no idea how she was going
to act, but I was pleasantly surprised.  She stood quietly from 9-4 on the picket line. Even when her 1/2 brother Stormy untied the picket line and it dropped to the ground.  For the three presentations, she had two different people lead her in for the color segment.  Jazzy walked in with all the manners of the best trained horse ever.  Nothing phased her at all, not the sheep in the shed who were looking at us from over the dutch door, not the cart that one horse was hitched to, not all the people watching, and not the loud PA system explaining what the horses were doing.  Jazz went with the young girl who lead her around during the presentations, never once giving her an ounce of trouble. 

This breed demo, July 29 2006, also marked the first time Storm Quest #158263, my 4 year old grulla gelding was presented under saddle.  He did his segment like an old pro, and only the members knew that he had never done this before.  He was calm and totally unphased by the demo, but he has been there, in hand, for the last 2 years.  What makes this an interesting story is that he was fully broke out this spring, and had not been ridden/lunged or anything for almost 3 weeks before the breed demo because we were having a heat wave, and I hate the hot/humid temperatures. So here is this totally green horse, with no warm up what so ever, and he walks in and does his segments like he was an old broke horse.  What great minds these two morgans have!

August 12 2006 marks the first time my grulla gelding, Storm Quest # 158263 (Stormwashed X Tigers Silent Saint) had been under saddle and ridden in a parade.  He had been ponied in 3 parades when he was a yearling, but nothing since.  This parade came while he's been an only horse at home as his sister is off to the trainers for the month of august.  I was a bit concerned that he would be over excited around the other horses, or all the activity that parades bring.  I had nothing to worry about at all.  He acted like this was something he'd always done, the motorcycles passing us with streamers and crape paper in the wheels didn't bother him, not even the bicycles that came up from behind with their flags and streamers.  All the candy that's thrown to the bystanders, we ended up pelted a few times, but that didn't bother Stormy, nor did the kids screaming and running along side of the horses.

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The Clark's of Wild Goose Morgans