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WT Rockabye Bunny

This little mare has a resume so long its a good thing she has her own page. Mandy bought Bunny as a yearling and started her training the next summer. She has travelled all over the western US and Alberta. Bunny was lightly started as a two year old. She had about 15 rides on her when January of her three year old year she loaded into the trailer by herself and made a 5 day trip to as far south in Texas you can go. Bunny was rode on the beach next to the ocean almost everyday for three and a half months. She then hauled by herself all the way home and travelled across central Alberta that summer being hauled to rodeos, ranch rodeos and into the mountains once. She was exposed to mounted shooters, chuckwagons, fireworks and everything else along the way. She participated in a cancer ride, carrying a friend that had cancer herself in the past, riding at the back pulling markers down as we went. Her mane was covered in clothespins with orange flagging before we were done. She spent the summer of her four year old year in the trailer again. Parades, horse shows, rodeos and I even took her into the mountains for a couple days by myself. We rode for two days alone until we joined up with a large group of about ten riders. She rides anywhere in the pack, doesn't get upset about falling behind if the others out walk her. She has done some cowboy challenge obstacles and I have packed flags on her for grand entry and parades as well as ponied horses, in costume classes and through parade routes or on the trails. She has even jumped a little bit. In November of 2015 Bunny got loaded into an air ride van and headed to California. From there we went across to Arizona and I spent a day riding Apache Junction, she had the previous two months off and spent four days in box stall on the trailer when her feet finally hit the ground and I threw her saddle on. I ended up riding to the Ghost Town by myself in the evening and had to ride back to the stable we were staying at in the dark. The only reason we found our way back was Bunny was on auto pilot and found the trail off the road back into the property, I tried to ride past it. From Arizona we went onto New Mexico where we spent two days riding some trails around the River that runs through Albuquerque. Then it was back onto California and up the coast back to Canada. I turned Bunny out for another couple months after that trip until middle of January we headed back to Texas until the end of May. Once again we rode on the beach and this time even took polo lessons. In 2016 Bunny spent some time riding at the community pasture and started roping as I had only done a little bit of roping before. The first critter we heeled was a full sized cow with foot rot. Even though the cow outweighed her she held it once I finally managed to rope it. She mostly roped yearlings with Jeremy, not too many maybe a half a dozen and pulled calves at a branding. After that it was more parades(we even made the front page of the paper leading a small town parade behind the RCMP) and horse shows and packing kids around. She has trailed cows and moved cows down the return ally at a couple of ropings in Texas. She is used to trucks of all sizes, equipment, dogs, noises, tarps, kids and just about everything else. Has been ridden indoor and I have ridden her bareback a ton. Even down trails for hours at a time. She opens and closes gates, crosses water, bridges of all sizes, mud, trees, train tracks. She has been ridden to town and through town lots. 

Bunny had her first foal in 2021, a black filly by Sizzle.

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