I spent the day reflecting on my time with a great horse.
Of all the horses I have bought and sold in the 9 years since we moved out to our new farm, Hyde got under my skin the most. I had tried to convice myself not to get close to another horse - or at least as close to one as Lucky - but he snuck in and got me.
It has been a year since Hyde passed away suddenly from septic shock. And in someways I am still in shock from it.
I will always be grateful to Paige and Barry for selling Hyde to me...will always appreciate the hard work both Dale and Jason did to mold Hyde into the great little cutting horse he was...and will always be sad that he could not do what he was meant to do.
And even sadder that he has no offspring to carry on where he left off...at the beginning of what could have been a great career.
Here are some shots of the two of us from the beginning as a 2 year old, when he arrived in Alberta; to the end, when I took my final lesson on him at Jason's the day he came home to stay:
