Lorie Bay Morgan mare 05/08/1982 - 12/02/2011 Reserved National Champion Morgan, as a yearling. Dam and "Grand" Dam to many national champions. I got Lorie when I was 12 years old, we were the same age. She had just foaled that spring and was well trained, but had been a broodmare for many years. It was love at first sight and that big bay mare, with the one white sock and bright eyes had me from the first look. She would test me on a daily basis for months. She would not let me catch her and would run laps around me in the pasture as if she was playing a game. Eventually she realized that our partnership was going to last and we became inseparable. The average summer day was me biking to the barn and spending the next 6 to 8 hours brushing her and riding for hours. She always had the moments of being barn sour, but she soared when I rode her. She had a large appetite and never let a meal go missed, carrots being her favorite treat. She had a few bouts of colic after she would sneak into the barn and eat an entire bale of hay or when the weather did drastic changes. I swear that horse could unlock any gate. She loved to herd the ducks into the pond, she loved to grunt to alternative music, she had a special look we nicknamed the "Lorie Look" and always was a one owner horse. I was the only one that she allowed to pamper her and the others she just would walk away from in an anti-social stride. Lorie loved being a mom and every spring would run to the broodmares and attempt to mother their foals. She gave me my first and only foal. I hoped for a bay filly and I got a personable chestnut colt. She was the best mom to him and allowed him to nurse even after 3 separate times away to wean. She was still with her last foal (Lorie's Pride Gilon, aka "Gilly") during her last days. After 17 years of having Lorie in my life I realize that I never owned her, but she owned me. She helped me with my transition from middle School to high School, puberty, from having no friends to finding my group of girlfriends, my parents' divorce, graduation from high school and college (animal science major), marriage, birth of 3 children and more. They say that you will always have one horse that no other horse will ever compare to. Lorie was more horse. She will never be replaced.

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