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ABBY JORGENSON
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was twelve years old, riding Garth, and the upward motion of her riding career has been nothing short of remarkable since then. “She is the kid who has it all,” according to
trainer Butch Thomas. “Everything you would want in a young rider comes in that package, we are all just along for the ride and I certainly hope we can keep up!!! I know I’m going to try to.” And off he goes laughing and shak- ing his head and patting Abby’s mother on the back in that sort of “hang on” way Butch has about him. Guy Thomas, the part of the Thomas train-
ing team that spends the most time with Abby, was almost speechless when asked about the rider. “There is just so much to say about her,”
iding the wonderful pinto cross horse named Garth; Abby Jorgens- en stepped to the ring two short years ago in the jumpers. Then she
he said. “She is a sponge, it is that simple. She wants to know about EVERYTHING and never ceases to surprise me. She notices things before I do.” “When she was about thirteen, she was sitting on the rail
with me as I started a class with five or six riders on the flat. She taps me and says, ‘How come that horse only has equithane in half its right front foot?’ Sure enough, when the horse came around we stopped it and half the packing had fallen out. She saw it before I did, she has a knack of seeing everything.” “The want and desire to be in our sport is what makes
her so different,” Guy continues. “Success only comes from hard work and no one has had to explain that to her. She is a great student at school yet she arrives here at the barn and rides two or three of the horses people don’t really care about riding. As long as it’s a horse, she rides it and wants more!! She is frightening about her instinct for the barn care and oversight of the horses, NOTHING and I mean NOTHING gets by her.” Winning the ShowBiz Jr/AO Jumper Classic at Sacramen-
to against a huge field of the top riders, Abby is continuing her way up the ladder. She is certainly one to follow.
Photos © Flying Horse Photography, Alden Corrigan 38
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