Meet Sweetie.  She's a 1999 dun breeding stock Paint Horse filly.  She's sired by the world champion Dee Link and she's out of a Pudden Head bred mare.  She's a beautiful, classy young mare.  She's also had a great show career in 4-H competition.

In these pictures please know that Adam is 6'3" and his other mare Buffy is an honest 16 hands when we put the stick to her.  Don't assume that Sweetie is little because she's not!  Remember she's next to a tall young man and a tall mare.  I expect her to top out at just a tad under 16 hands.

When Sweetie was a yearling she was the 4-H District Champion and she placed fifth in the state in AOB Mares.  She has to show in "All Other Breed" mares because she's a breeding stock.  The Louisiana Paint Horse Club, a subsidiary of the American Paint Horse Association, provides the awards for the Paint Horse division.  Because of that the 4-H follows the APHA's rule about painted and non-painted horses not being allowed to show together.  That works out just fine for Adam because he can show his mare Buffy in the Paint Horse division and Sweetie in the AOB division.

At the 2001 State 4-H Horse Show Adam showed both Buffy and Sweetie to State Championships!  It was more than I could ever have imagined!  In the picture below, Ross helped his brother for the picture.  It's actually a terrible picture of both of these mares, but it's on here because I don't think we'll ever pull off a double state championship again!  That was a once in a lifetime experience.  Take a look at the picture to below to see the awards Adam brought home for that feat!  Each mare won a blue rosette ribbon for winning their class for their age group.  Then they both won a purple rosette ribbon for the State Championship.  The big trophy went along with Buffy's championship for Paint Mares while the belt buckle was won by Sweetie for her AOB Mares championship.  

We toy with the idea of selling sweetie at times because we still don't have all our pastures up.  At times it just seems like a bit much to have all our horses stalled.  There's a lot more work with a stalled horse than with a pastured one.  Because we had no good pictures of Sweetie, we hauled her up the road to the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center to a show that was being held there and had a good picture taken of her.  Of course she hadn't been fitted for months and she had a nice long hair coat because of the cold weather.  You can still tell that she's a big, pretty young mare.  She's two and a half in the picture below.  Adn I still don't have a really good picture of her.

Now I've just told you that sometimes we think about selling Sweetie.  Well, just like true horse addicts we also sometimes think about breeding her, too.  She's going to make 3 in 2002.  She's a big filly and I think she'd have beautiful babies.  Maybe we'll see.