Silly Season And The Brown Mare

Late in October, while I was still searching for "a horse to ride", I found some horses that Barbara Killian had for sale. She was thinning out her herd of Thoroughbred mares and so Brenda and I went to take a look. She has a beautiful ranch not far from us and we spent a long time checking out all her beautiful horses.

On November 1, 2007, I finally decided to buy a 7 year old broodmare named "Silly Season". We saw her beautiful and strong colt and it was obvious that Silly Season had been a good mom to this horse! She seemed so thin to me.

While looking at Barbara's horses, she mentioned that she also had a brown Thoroughbred mare that she had just brought home from the race track and she would be willing to give her to a good home. Apparently she had a knee injury and I could see that she had a bad scar on her rump.

I called Don and asked him if I could "rescue" this horse and he said "yes".

So we loaded up Silly Season and the brown mare into Brenda's trailer and brought them to their new home. We had already added some additional corrals and now I had 4 horses! Don suggested that we call Silly Season "Boots" (after the Nancy Sinatra song) and the brown mare became "Ebony".