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Cheryl Bender
Cheryl Bender
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| Hello! My name is Kajun and: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Welcome to the Story of my Life!
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| (please scroll to read the whole story. I could have asked you to click page to page, but that's annoying!) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| On the left is my Mom, a thoroughbred mare who was accepted into the Dutch Warmblood Studbook. This picture was taken right after her keuring where she was branded. It is an honor to be accepted by the Dutch, who are great breeders and who accept only the best when they look at American horses! On the right is my dad, Patrick, who was one of the first Approved Dutch breeding stallions in the States. He is a Gelderlander, a basic Dutch type and he was a great jumper. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| II was born at 2 am on June 11, 1992. I was a BIG foal! On the 2nd day, Mom and I were allowed to go outside and I ran and ran: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| I discovered how to scratch my belly on a bush. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| And I followed my big brother like a shadow. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| When I was 4 months old, Mom and I went to MY keuring, where the Dutch came over from Holland and judged awarded me with a first premium and I was 2nd in my class for confimation and 1st for movement! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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When I was older, and under saddle, I went to my first horse show and got 2 blue ribbons for my walk/trot classes. At my next horse show, I had to canter but, instead, I bucked all the way through my classes! When I showed Training Level at BOH in 1999, I behaved better and took the Open Championship in 3 out of 4 shows!
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| The next year, I started 1st Level but my owner decided to go back to school and I didn't do any showing. One of the good things about the time off was that my owner bought Gotsno, a German Warmblood. He's not as big as me, but he is beautiful and he can buck too! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| During the summer I attended a few clinics with friends...That's Mary Lou in the middle in pink and Georgina on her left wearing yellow. Sam Morrison, our instructor is on her right. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Thanks for visiting my web site, Love to you, Kajun. Vsit my owner's web site at www.allgrafix.com (she pays the feed bill!) |
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