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Frodo has been retired to very good friends of mine's little farm where he
is living like the Prince we all know he is. He was a "Hobbit" pony before
most had ever heard of Tolkien (I had read all the books at age 8.
I truly wish I had a camera with me the first day when 10 baby goats
gathered around his big feet. They looking up and up at him and him looking
down at them each trying to figure out what the heck the others were.
Frodo who is actually a fjord/arab cross from the group Finn Casperson
bred for Four in Hand Competition is 25 now and worked continuously in our
Therapeutic Riding Program from the age of three. He also worked in the "able
bodied" program for almost that long. He's done everything from Special
Olympic
Competitions (where we had a helicopter land right in front of us - not a
hestitation on his part) to Prelim fences at Fair Hill to one of the best
horses for backriding we have ever had. On our drill team of mainstreamed
students
(both challenged and not so challenged) he performed at the Capital Center
with the Vienna Lipizzans, the Baltimore Open Jumper Classsic, Fair Hill Races
and on the Mall in Washington DC in front of the President.
Frodo and I were buddies from Day One when I was just fascinated by his
unique coloring and unflappable attitude - he used to come running when I
called him. I visit him frequently and he comes to the fence to say hi with
his
trail of young goats.
Robyn in MD
