Image Gallery
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Cornet Noir and Deborah
Ribbons from the Texas Rose Dressage Classic
Inaugural Ride for Cornet Noir and Deborah at the Texas Rose Dressage Classic
Dallas Dressage Club Awards Banquet, January 2020
Gus and Boots: My next door Texas neighbors
My tall, dark, handsome Partner
Jefferson City, Missouri, Mayor Tergin and Deborah
At the Texas Rose Dressage Classic
Finishing our cool-down after our ride
How to beat the Texas heat!
Forever partners
Deborah and Cornet Noir ready for the show arena
First place at the Region 9 Championships
I love my Blind Rider! I get a lot more hay this way! Sneaky, Sneaky Horse!
Her hair is tickling me!
Starting off heading home after my day with Noir
Young Cornet Noir free-jumping
My “Equine History” before moving to Texas
Princess: My 5th birthday surprise present. Yes, she was a spirited pony!
“Sassafras Honey, made my life sunny. I loved her right from the start!” I am the one wearing the helmet in this photo.
Bravo’s Brilliant Disguise: my first American Saddlebred horse
Bravo: Hunter on the flat; “Good boy, you won our class!”
Bravo: Love this image!
Bravo: Halloween costume class during an October horse show
Big Joe: This image captures my joy after winning first place in my first horse show experience. The next day, we also placed first in our Western Pleasure class. Yippee!
Big Joe and I went on to win 2 Saddle and Bridle’s Shatner Western Pleasure classes. We were also Missouri Horse Show Association Stock Seat Equitation 18 & Over State Champions.
Champion Harlem’s Proud Mary — majestic, trustworthy, and a willing partner. I treasure this Championship image!
Proud Mary with her former owner, Ann Curl
Proud Mary: Boone County Fair, ASB Country English Pleasure Champions
Proud Mary: Entering Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri; Missouri-Kansas ASB Country English Pleasure class
Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri
Lake St. Louis National Equestrian Center Championship win
Proud Mary
In 2014, tragedy struck Proud Mary when an aggressive corneal fungal infection resulted in the removal of her right eye globe. The day of this surgery was one of the worst days in my life; however, Proud Mary survived. This was not exactly how I had hoped her retirement from the show arena would begin.
She is still alive, happy, and well cared for at the Shinkle Farm in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Thank you, Mary Pat Abele, former Missouri Mansion Executive Director, for hiring me to perform for 125 events in the Missouri Governor’s Mansion. Proud Mary was a part of every performance.
Practicing for an outdoor Proud Mary’s Name That Tune engagement…
Come on, sing along!
Maggie: Because a trail horse might unexpectedly decide to “jump” over a fallen tree in our pathway, I thought it might be a wise idea to learn a few skills for jumping over obstacles. Here we are successful. One time, however, while jumping over a straight rail with Norman I lost my balance, fell off, and landed flat on my bottom. This hurt, but, I got back on and successfully jumped over a few more low rails.
Midnight Lace, AKA Lacy: images from 4 J Big Piney trail ride
Norman and Maggie
Lacy always played in the water - no standing still for this mare!
Lacy, Buddy, and my trail-riding Horse Sister, Phyllis Hemeyer
NTEC Lesson Horse Lacy
My Jefferson City, MO, home before moving to Texas
Missouri Home for 29 years
Climb Every Mountain
Never forget 29 years of piano performance, teaching, and hundreds of lives changed through music, horses, and faith
“Onward and Upward”: acrylic painting by Deborah after the blind school experience
Piano Studio
“Out of the Darkness into the Light”: acrylic painting by Deborah inspired after her rehabilitation training experiences at Program for the Blind, Kansas City, Missouri
