(Doc Bar x Mimi Warner x Lucky Blanton)
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(Doc Bar x Mimi Warner x Lucky Blanton) |
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| As is often the case with the descendants of Mimi, she did not fully mature until well into her fourth year. I will have to find some other pictures - none of these really show that even with the TB head, she was a very pretty mare, with "presence". |
| Cassandra was trained largely by Dave McGregor. He did not have the time to show her, and recommended Gary Bellanfont for that purpose. |
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| I doubt anyone could have done better in teaching this rather rather high-strung and high powered mare the calm and easy herd work. Even back in the fifties he understood and could teach horses the nuances of position, (in a way that I can only marvel at) which made it possible for him to show very presentably on some animals that were not exactly prize winners in and of themselves. |
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| Getting this
mare, inclined to "think" with her emotions, to understand the subtleties
of
always positioning very precisely for tactical advantage
was surely not easy.
He spent extra time with her in consideration of grandmother's desire that Mimi's last foal "do something". He is the only major trainer that ever went significantly out of his way for us, and we will not forget that kindness. |
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| Probably 1980,
Gary Bellanfont up. She was in the Top Ten within nine months of his receiving
her. To give him due credit, toward the end of the eighteen months or so
that she was shown, she went back to Dave McGregor. I forget why, there
was no dispute, just circumstances of some sort. Anyway, it became clear
that she scored exactly one point higher, very consistently, under Gary
Bellanfont.
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| Below is an excerpt that I lifted from the Chatter. (I have condensed it a little, for the sake of download time, being aware that I am already imposing some delay with so many images.) |
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