Clark (Superman CR) was purchased by a wonderful family and long time clients, Curtis, Erika and their daughter Houston. Erika and Houston and been staunch Clarky fans since his birth in 2009. At the time there was no way of talking Curtis into another baby. The year before one of their broodmares had a colt by my Irish Draught stallion Bridons Glenlord. They were also not interested in raising, promoting and breeding a stallion. After Clark's inspections and receiving high scores, Primium foal and stallion prospect status, it seemed the idea of a match became a distant memory.

Over the summer, after Clarks' full sister, Garbo was born, Erika approached me about Garbo, at first I really liked the idea, I felt good about letting her go to them as a baby, knowing she would get the same top quality care that I would give her. My feelings changed fairly quickly as it became apparent that Garbo was going to be a very sensitive horse and would require a more advance rider.

By this time I had also come to the decision that I had to many stallions on the property. So Clark and his pasture buddy Sam were gelded. I told Erika to think about Clark again and Rain, a filly by Routiner, Erika and Houston came by just about everyday and would go out to the foal pasture and play with Clark & Rain. After about a week Erika told me that they had decided on Clark and the deciding factor was that they didn't want another horse that could create more horses! I had to laugh.. Erika has a baby addiction of the animal kind.

So at the end of July, Clark jumped right in the trailer and moved about 3 miles away as the crow flies.  In September a group of us took horses up to the Black Star in hand show. This was Clark's first long haul and his first show. We had no idea what to expect from him. He is not a typical yearling you can push around, he was already over 16hhs, so if he decided to check out a patch of grass, you went along for the ride!

Clark shocked us all by being the calmest horse we had, he acted like a season 20 year old show horse that had seen it all. He was even picked for drug testing, Erika found out, because of size and how calm he was for such a young horse.

Of course that didn't translate into very good showing in front of the judges but they all remarked on his amazing potential. We all had a great time and look forward to showing in 2011.

I am also looking forward to having Clark back for training in a few years, I expect amazing talent to shine through.