.....My Story

... Well since this is my first post i have to say hey to all my "homies"...Dad(who some of you might know as Jimmy Thomas, the guy who trained Medicine Man and competed in the Mustang Makeover this year) , Dee(my sister), Mom, Helena(my "agent")... and everyone else who has made me who i am today. My story basically starts like this... a little more than 2 years ago i got my first horse, T. My sister had always adored horses and had gotten a beautiful, but lazy, quaterhorse that she named Scarlet when she was 14. A couple years later we bought a paint stud we named Redman. Well when 2 horses love each other you know what happens and 9 months later my dad and I came down the driveway and saw a little red and white head poking out of the stall next to his mom. Within a day I was out there imprint training T, teaching him to yield, roundpen, and lead. For the next year he helped train me as much as I trained him. At only one year old he had been through everything but riding, he was too young. Then, the summer before my junior year one of our neighbors and riding buddies asked if i would start a mule for him. I'm not gonna lie, this was not a pretty mule. At less than 14 hands he was almost a blue roan but with a lot of GRAY... So i named him Grady. Well in a month i had him well started under saddle and had trail ridden him for about 2 weeks. All in all he turned out to be a pretty good mule, and apparently i had a lot to do with this because just as soon as Grady was gone I started to get offers from other people with young horses that needed to be started. At first it was all mules and ponies, which wasnt all bad since I wasnt espescially tall. Then i had and epiphany, it seemed the more good ponies and mule I turned out, the more other people with real horses wanted me to train for them. So I decided to pursue what had become my passion almost overnight and here i am today... going to school till 1:30, coming home and working my my current horse till about 3:00, then working on our barn in progress. Sometimes i even have time to work my ropin horse Scooter but ill talk about him and my current project, Blue(who is also my first mustang) next time. Oh yea and I also plan on following in my dad's footsteps and competing in the Extreme Mustang Makeover next year... only, i plan to win...maybe, hopefully.