About Me
    My name is Erin Foster and I'm 18 years old; a senior in High School. I've loved horses my entire life, and I've always planned on a future with horses. When I was fourteen years, I finally got my own horse, a 6-year old purebred Arabian mare named DZ Angelfire, or "Angel." She'd had a history of starvation, abuse, and neglect, so I received her for free by a man who was otherwise going to give her to some local dogmushers for dog food. She was quite the challenge, yet she taught me more in the year and a half that I owned her than I'd learned in a lifetime of reading and research. I never knew how important first-hand experience was!! Yet I sold her in March of 2000 because I finally admitted to myself that she needed someone with much more experience. So a very nice couple from Wisconsin bought her and she is now a broodmare on their farm.
     After five months, I bought a new horse in August. His name was TF Baron, or "Baron", a purebred Arabian gelding who is now 14 years old. He's white with rust-colored flea-bitten specks all over.
Baron when I first brought him home
I had originally bought Baron to be an endurance racing horse, but unfortuately, he is afraid of water. Sure, he'll walk though puddles, but anything bigger, it's not gonna happen!! So I've enjoyed simply trail riding him and learning so much. I can now ride him with just a string around his neck, and he responds beautifully!! I recall a time last summer when I used a leather string and put it around his neck before riding down to the lake near my house. There were a bunch of people at the boat landing, and they looked at me like I was crazy. So I turned him around, kicked him into a gallop, and just flew up the road, a bareback and bridleless Arabian, and me clenching his mane. There's not a better feeling in the entire world!!
     In September of 2002, I will be attending college, and Baron will be going with me. Along with my best friend Ashley, I'm going to be on the rodeo team and compete in barrel racing with Baron. We won't start practicing until this spring, but there's no doubt in my mind that Baron will be a natural.
     Horses are most definately a gift. Often times, they're the best friend that you've got!! Please share your personal horse stories with me, and get them published in the next newsletter!!