A Little About Telly...

I want to welcome you all to the first blog here on According to Telly.

Let me tell you more about the horse that this blog is about. 

  Mr. Telly is a 1998 Brown 17.0hh Appendix Gelding. He is by the lovely Last Detail and o/o Fancey Gift. I was lucky enough to purchase him in Dec. 2002 and we have been together ever since. Nobody thought we should buy him because of the fact he had OCD in his left stifle and a torn right hind suspensory, but from the moment I first saw him I knew he was the one and I couldn't let him leave. So we took a chance, he had the OCD removed and they injected bone marrow into the suspensory, we gave him about 6 months of stall rest and then started getting him back in shape. It was an amazing feeling that first time back in the saddle on him. He willingly obeyed all of my commands and acted as if he had been ridden all that time and not been sitting around doing nothing. That was when it hit me that I had something truly special and no matter what I would be there for him. 

  In just 9 short months, we managed to get to some QH shows and accumulate enough points to state qualify for the Youth World Show in Texas in Hunter Under Saddle. This was a great accomplishment in itself just being able to compete there due to everything him and I had gone through. So we went out there just with the thanks of being able to ride him and know this horse was mine. As luck would have it, we ended up being Reserve World Champions beating out close to 100 competitors. I was absolutely thrilled and satisfied for how Telly had handled himself throughout the entire week. There was a lot of talk from people wondering who we were and we got some offers from people to buy him, but there was no way I wanted to part with him as we were just getting started. Some people might have said we were crazy to turn down an offer of 6 figures as something could happen to him tomorrow, but money wasn't the point, it was the feeling that I had every second that I was with him that mattered. 

This was just the beginning of our journey, and I am excited to share our stories with you.

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