Jess 1991- Jan 24th 2018

This morning we laid Jess to rest at the ranch where we board at. I can't think well enough right now to write a worthy post about him, so for now I will leave it at his background story below. Our hearts are hurting, but we know he is at peace in no longer in pain. Run free buddy. We miss you.

Jess came to us in January 2011. We started looking for a horse for my partner as Pixie was proving to be too much horse for a green rider. So after taking lessons on Jess for a few months it was decided that we would buy him. He is a grade older Quarter horse. He has his cranky old man ways, but he is safe and that was the most important thing to us. It was his job to teach her how to ride and safely take her out on trail rides. And that is just what he has done. He even was a trooper when we got lost out on the trails in May of 2012, well not lost really, but farther out then we wanted. What was supposed to be a hour to two hour ride turned into five hours of up and down steep hills! He safely carried her without a bad step the entire time. Even though we knew at the end he had to be in pain from his arthritis.  Unfortunately a few weeks after that ride he hurt his shoulder some how and that would marked his retirement from trail riding. We had a over a year of enjoying the trails with him and that was enough. He had done his job he was the safe teacher that we needed at the time. He had earned his retirement. We rode him some lightly around the barn this last spring and summer, but this fall we decided to pull his shoes and give him true retirement. Many people wonder why we keep him, he is older, lame, and not pretty. But he earned every bit of his easy life now. Before us he was a hard working rodeo/rope horse. He is worth his weight in gold!