NEWS

In 2005 we purchased Jim from Terrance Storr. With the help of Deanna Johnson, who also purchasing a Gypsy mare, 8 months later, Jaunty Star’s journey commenced in Wales on February 11^th 2006. Jim traveled across the ferry to the Netherlands where he spent the night, then into Germany and down to Luxembourg.

Jim and Deanna's mares flight takes them into the United States and they must travel 10 hours and land in Seattle. Then they depart and fly for another 4 hours before finally arriving in Calgary, Alberta. Which is where Deanna and I arrive at 10:30 PM to meet them.

In 2007, Jim was now 3 years old and ready for inspections. The judges came from Ireland to do a cross Canada tour. Jim passed with high marks in temperament and athleticism.

2008 Jim and Rebecca Lee won the Alberta Championships, Entry devition.

2009 Jim and Rebecca lee were Reserve High Point Champ for AHT. They also got Honorable mentions with the IDHS NA. In the fall they up graded to Training level at the NWCG in Washington.

We are also very excited for our new addition to the herd. Angel a registered JC palomino TB mare, will be arriving May/June. She will be in foal to a registered JC cremello stallion Guaranteed Gold.

March 22, 2010 Hermione had a baby boy.

Star made it to her new home in Ontario safe and sound were she is the new addition to True Colors Farm breeding program. I am looking forward to see there future foal out of Star from there fabulous stallion Guaranteed Gold.

May 20th.

Angel arrived on May 16th which was very exciting. Today I took Angel in for an ultrasound, unfortunately Angel is not in foal, so we will not be having a GG foal.

June

We took Angel up to have a second opinion done, still not in foal, but was just in time to have Jim cover her, so hopefully Angel took and is in foal to Jaunty Star.

The first event of the season at Alhambra was canceled due to snow the morning of Dressage. Jim and Becky were suppose to do pre training there and then finish the season off in training but the cancellation of Alhambra ment Jim and Becky went straight into training for this season. The first event was Beaumont. Becky had a really busy weekend, riding 3 horses (2 in training) and no grooms. Jim and Becky did pretty good considering. They had 1 rail in stadium and 2 stop on cross country, finishing off in 7th over all. Next Cochrane.

Jim and Becky did a great job at Cochrane, finishing off in 4th place.

I went to Beaumont with DKH Bold Alliance. This was Bo's first event. We did trot a trail. Bo was spooky but did really well. We finished off in second place. Bo will be going to Rocky in July for his second event. We will be doing pre entry there.

July

July 9-11 was Thompson HT. Another supper job by Becky and Jim, finishing off in 3rd. I took Bo and Powder. Dressage day was hot. I also was not feeling well. Bo not wanting to leave powder was tense. Even though it was not a great day, and being his second show, Bo had a pretty good dressage test. By the time I rode powder, I could hardly stay on, I had no strength what so ever. We finished our test the best we could. Cross country was much better. It was raining (much cooler) and I was feeling much better. Bo was awesome. We had one stop and number 5. It was quite big for pre entry and on the landing, it was quite a sharp turn. Bo looked at 6 and 7 but went over. He was very brave. We had a lot of time penalties as I wanted Bo to have fun so we took it slow with trot approach to all of the fences with cantering between. Powder was really good too. We got eliminated on cross country but over all, she did well for not ever seeing a cross country course. We had a stop at 5, 6 and then 3 stops at 7. Powder was a good girl and when she stopped it was not dirty or mean, didn't try and run out, she just slowed to a stop. Stadium, I was super proud of Bo. He did really well. Tons of spooky stuff and he didn't look. We had 2 rails that were my fault as I didn't release soon enough. Powder didn't do stadium.

July

Jim and Becky went to Montana to compete at Rebecca Farms Event. They competed at training. They finished off in 6th place after dressage. The scores were very close. On cross country, Jim had on stop at the carrot but over all they did very well. Unfortunately having that one stop moved them to 13th place. They had a clean stadium but it was not enough to move them up so they stayed in 13th place out of 25.

August

This was Alhambra. Jim and Becky did a supper job, finishing off dressage in 2nd place. They had a clean cross country and stadium staying in 2nd place.

I took Bo. Bo was great. I was tiered and was quite tense for dressage. Bo would have done allot better if I could have remembered how to ride. Cross country was much better. Bo was brave and had a lot of fun. I let Bo pick his pace and I just kept him moving forward. I was not concerned about time, just with making a good experience for Bo. We moved up 8 placings into 10th. We had a clean go other then time penalties for going to slow. Stadium was good to. We had one stop at a really spooky fence but after a look, and a second go, Bo went over with no problems. We had one or two rails, not sure, which moved us to finish off in 11th.