08/07/2026
Rebel is coming along so nicely and now we have a little over 3 months left till his first futurity run 😳 When you’ve poured so much heart and soul into an animal and that dream starts to be in your grasp, it makes all the hard times seem so insignificant.
I pick out his dam and sire for this cross. When “she” was born, yes I said she, I was so excited. A beautiful bay filly! Then a couple of weeks later I get a call from the breeder. My perfect baby filly I wanted had broke her leg in the pasture at a couple weeks old and they had to put her down. The breeder gave me the option to breed the same cross for next year or pick one from that years crop. I didn’t hesitate to do the same cross again. But you never get what you want twice. So next year, Rebel was born. A flashy sorrel c**t. Wellllll….then another problem come up. He was chromed up and flashy….like her other stud and not the one I had picked out who has hardly any white to mention😅 The stud I had picked was having a hard time keeping up with the mares the year prior so she let the ones that were already assumed pregnant out with her other sorrel flashy stallion. Well she gave me the option again to pick another c**t from that stallion I had originally pick for that year, or keep that cross. I kept Rebel. Well fast forward to registration and everyone knows AQHA likes to drag their feet 🙄 I called in, and they told me that we would have to pull another DNA sample or figure out who the stallion was, because it didn’t come back to the sorrel flashy stallion the breeder had 😳 Well there was only one other option of who that stud could have been. The original stallion I had picked 🙌🏻 We resent everything in….it was a MATCH!! My original pick was it. So that is the start of Rebels story.
Sometimes we have to let go of things, because God has something better. And other times we need to hold onto the things God has gifted us, but the devil will try and hinder those blessings.
I know this is just the beginning of Rebel and I’s story. He wants to be great and you just know when you’re sitting on a good one. I can’t wait to keep writing more chapters with him.