05/18/06 P, D.P.

P.D.P. I wonder if a name can make a difference in a horse's attitude? I'm Jeff Keane; I'll be back in one minute to talk about that. When the pretty little brown filly was just born and brought into the corrals for the first time, my brother and his wife came to see their newest colt. Since the last colt the mare had was a sorrel with four white legs and a blaze face my sister-in-law remarked that this filly was pretty darn plain. Well, the name endured, but just as the initials PDP. When it was time for PDP's training to start, my brother was busy with other things so I started working with her along with some other colts we were schooling. This is when I first noticed an attitude that started to define PDP. It was almost like she was sayingso I'm pretty darn plain, well I'll give you something to make me stand out in your mind. Now she could have stood out as a horse that did everything easy and correct, but I think here mother's genes got the upper hand and she decided she would stand out by not becoming a saddle horse. I didn't recognize PDP's determination quick enough, but I did recognize she was sincere about the whole thing when she allowed me to paint silly pictures with my face on the dirt canvas. Shortly, PDP changed her major and became a pretty darn exciting rodeo saddlebronc that good riders could win go-rounds and rodeos on which she enjoyed way more than being just a pretty darn plain saddle horse. I'm Jeff Keane.