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“I bought a four-year-old green broke Appaloosa gelding. I had my own horse and was really excited,” Carolyn admitted. Still, that horse was just too much for a newcomer. “I didn’t have him long and traded for a grade ranch gelding called Chico. He was a great horse for me,” Carolyn contended. She went trail riding and even rode Chico in shows at the boarding facility. “I didn’t really have the foggiest idea what I was doing,” Carolyn admitted. “But I had a horse and was having the time of my life.” Deciding she wanted a registered horse, Carolyn bought her own college graduation present. “I got my first teaching job at Mayetta High School. Then I bought a sorrel three-year-old registered Quarter Horse mare named Wimpy’s Flit,” she said. Soon acquiring a trailer as well, Carolyn showed the mare at halter while working on riding improvement. Taking a teaching job at Caney, Carolyn moved there with her horse , soon becoming friends with other horse owners.

“You know how it is when you have a mare, the next thing is raising a baby,” Carolyn said. “I went stallion shopping and decided to mate my mare to Cedar Chant who Dean Smith was standing.” The result was a bay mare named Enchanted Flit. “She was racy built and hot,” explained the horsewoman who’d by then was teaching at Perry. Boarding her horses north of Topeka moving forward, Carolyn raised most of her own horses in preference to buying them. “I bred Enchanted Flit to Impressive Too which produced Too Enchanted, my first really top show horse,” Carolyn said. Placed in training with Mark Gratny, the mare collected a superior award in open halter and won many amateur classes.

Too Enchanted