March 2008 Archives

I have had horses all of my life, I do not know what it would be like to not have to be up by 6 am to feed the horses, or to come home after dark and clean stalls with a flash light...I would not have it any other way. It all started very simply for me, my sister asked for a pony for Christmas since the time she could talk. Then when she was five and I was just 1 years old, my Father had to leave for a business trip and it was looking like he wouldn't be home in time for Christmas. My sister
sat on the bed with her little sad face as my father packed and said..."Daddy do you think Santa will bring me a pony for Christmas this year?" That was it, 31 years later I am still in the horse business, and eternally grateful to my older sister and her said little lip.

My background in broad, as a child I showed Western, as a teenager it was all about Gymkhana, but I have done my share of English and Halter classes as well. As an adult I became less involved in showing or more behind the scenes. In 2004 I became the President of CSHA Region 14 for and organized the Gymkhana's for our community. In 2005 I started my own business giving riding lessons; I teach all disciplines but specialize in teaching children. My life revolves around my horses, I call them my "kids", I often reflect on my childhood and think, and I would not have made it though without their unyielding love.

E-mail: Hollenbaugh.mary@gmail.com