Just returned from a trip I took to the American Eventing Championships. The former horse of Maplefen Farm, Sargent (Koshari Flash) qualified for the Championships and I and a friend went back to watch him go. What a wonderful time we had. Beautiful facility in St. Charles, Illinois. Lamplight Equestrian Center - 52 acres of perfectly groomed stables and arenas and across the street is a 2000 woods preserve that they are allowed to use for Cross Country. What a great galloping course. I met Sarge's owner, Heather for the first time, along with her Mom and Uncle. Heather is an adorable girl - so cute and animated and such a good rider. She was warming up Sarge and her coach was coaching her and I heard her say "But I love Him!!". She does love Sarge - he could not have gone to a better home. My traveling companion asked me if I had any misgivings about selling him - and I was quick to tell her "Certainly Not", I could have never done for Sarge what Heather has. He and Heather's performance was wonderful - unfortunately, he was going too fast for cross county (novice divisions are penalized for going faster than optimum time) and Heather pulled him down to a trot just 2 jumps from the finish - and Sarge took it as a sign that he could stop if he wanted to - so he hesitated at the drop and the judge called it a stop. But it didn't dampen our spirits - he was absolutely beautiful with such a big stride with freight train enthusiasm. I had a perfectly wonderful time!! Now I am inspired, I came home and that little cute stubby quarter horse of mine, Jango, is back in the dressage arena and next week I pull out the jumps. We had a full summer of great trailriding but training time is back.