07/30/2025
Well, his assigned birthday was July 2nd, we really don’t know for sure lol! This was a hard one to put together, but watching this old man age has been one of the most amazing things I’ve gotten to witness. He’s cared for so many students, there’s probably 50-100 little ones that have had him touch their life. We struggled a lot in my youth years, he was spooky and could be quite grouchy when he wasn’t in the mood to do something. As he got older, his attitude started to shift. I think he understood and found that riding really could be fun! He grew a love for jumping and was doing a lot of it into his 30s, but last year I did start to see his joints not holding up comfortably anymore. I knew it was time to retire from showing the walk trot and jumping. He has never been one to be able to fully retire, trust me I tried. He looses weight, gets depressed, goes off feed. He is not happy being out in the pasture untouched. He craves the love, attention, and relationship being in a lesson program and riding gives. So now he is happily doing walk only at the shows and some walk trot at home. I couldn’t be happier that he’s this old looking so good and really seems to enjoy his job still. So here’s to my old man that aged backwards, Happy birthday Bobby 💕 #33
