I haven’t heard from the Cooks’ previous owners and I’m so excited. How long do I have to wait until I email them back? I don’t want to seem like a stalker.

I can’t WAIT to see her little face.

People might wonder why I was so intend on finding out about her past. When I got her papers and found her registration number, I contacted the farm she was born at in New York. I exchanged several emails with the owner of the farm and just felt cold. He explained nicely that he was a breeder and that if they didn’t have racehorse career potential, then they were sold. He didn’t know Cook or Cook’s parents. I can’t explain why but it just HURT me.

So I just wanted to know that SOMEWHERE… somewhere in her past that someone knew her… remembered her… loved her… like I do. So I had given up and settled for the fact that she was with me NOW, I love her NOW and she is probably one of the most spoiled horses I know. Seriously, if the other horses wouldn’t make fun of her, I would wrap her in bubble wrap.

So I was tickled when the FL person I found who had her as a 5 year old knew her and remembered her instantly.

I was looking back at some old posts and I found this one…. I thought it still sums up the way I feel about Cook……

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I have an entire website dedicated to her daily happenings… but I hope that people know that she’s more than just a horse. I know people might look at her and say she’s ordinary, she’s common, she’s “little”. Like Jack Nicholson said in “As good as it gets”, I watch people walk past her stall, or dismiss the ordinary, little mare and never get they just met the greatest horse alive. And the fact that I get it, makes me feel good, about me.

She is truly, truly the most special thing in my life.

I have to believe that on some level that she knows that.