Pink Halter

Bint Al Bahr Arabians

Preservation Breeders of Straight Babson Egyptians

THE PINK HALTER

Yes, We have the famous "Pink Halter." This halter was purchased at the Pasha Institute's silent action held a few years back during our "Gathering of the Tribes" activities during the the final days of the February Scottsdale show. The last few minutes of auction activity was frantic as usual as each of us guarded and upped our bids on the treasures we sot. Elizabeth was distracted at the last minute by a co-conspirator as my name hit the final bid on the pink halter list. I believe that Carol Lyons, Jan Sorrel and Sheila Harmon were also being distracted by a last minute bid on other items they were watching. These silent auctions are a lot of fun, we have even been known to auction off a tube of Chocolate chip cookie dough that the winner then syndicated by selling spoon shares. We all sat up into the late hours, talked horses and laughing while eating chocolate chip cookie dough.

Elizabeth's mares lived with me when they were conceiving those fillies. Even our shipped semen mares had fillies this year. Every time I pass through the door I am inches from the halter. Unfortunately for me that was the year I did not breed any of my mares. Perhaps my mare will give me a filly next spring if the halter was not too tired to work this year. I also wear a "very sincere Pink T-shirt" for breeding while the stallion has a pink lead rope. (I wouldn't embarrass him by making him wear a pink halter too.) :^)

The pink halter complete with a petite pink horseshoe hanging hook was donated by Pat and Cheryl O'Donnell (Babson/Brown and Babson breeders in Indiana) who currently have possession of the "Filly Wand," another silent auction prize. The only trick with the "Filly Wand" is the mare must be touched daily with the pink sequined and ribboned wand. It also requires complete faith in its powers. Missing a day may bring you a colt! They were diligent with Jusera and she gave them a beautiful filly. This filly adds another much needed female to the Babson/Julian group of Babson Brown horses. Jusera retires with this filly. Their other foal this year was a black Babson colt. They confess to missing a day with that one, but a black colt is something to celebrate as well.

I suspect that the next Silent Auction will have a Pink Halter in it and maybe some chocolate chip cookie dough. One thing we can always be sure of finding is a lot of fun at these auctions.

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