Country Frank was a great stallion in the Missouri Fox Trotter breed. He was World Grand Champion and beloved by everyone. He left us too soon. Our boy was the last stud colt born out of Country Frank. He has got a lot of fabulous and beloved blood running thru his short stocky body!
Can you imagine the excitement of expecting a Country Frank foal? That’s what Teresa was feeling one night when the foaling camera caught the mother acting like birth was coming soon.
Teresa stepped out of her house and immediately noticed the big bright star shining in the sky. She thought it must be the same star that hovered over the stable long ago in Bethlehem. It was huge and bright and shining. If fact, it was shining right over the corner of the foaling barn.
The foaling process had started but the process was labored. When it was all over, Teresa’s mare had delivered twins. She delivered a living foal and a foal that had died sometime during it’s development The death of the twin meant that all the needed blood and nutrition was shunted to the living foal and sadly, that was “lucky”. Usually twin foals are delivered dead or die soon upon arrival.
New born foals are skin stretched over long bones. Lucky Star was just like any other newborn foal. But, he developed pneumonia soon after his amazing delivery on the ground. A new born foal with pneumonia? Teresa was determined he should live and was treating him day and night. Teresa states, “I would tell you that Lucky is alive today because of the grace of God-he survived against all odds. I was merely God’s chosen instrument of healing that would set him on the path to his special purpose in this life.”
He survived and grew up in the best of places. Being sick, Teresa spent a lot of time with him, even more than she usually does a new born foal. Our boy got a lot of desensitizing in his first desperate days of hanging on to his life.
After Teresa and the foal decided he would live, Teresa named him.
Can you guess it?
Country Frank’s Lucky Star
Lucky Star begins another part of his journey to finished saddle horse..smooth gaiting…calm and confident….athletic with the body to do anything his rider asks being super trail horse or ranch horse!
Lucky to live; Born under the Star of Bethlehem and he does have a star right in the middle of his forehead.
Lucky Star is the kind of horse that people are searching for: Short, stocky, good mind, confident and gaited. YAA HOO! What fun 2012 is going to be for Lucky Star and I!
Here’s how Teresa ends this story, “The Star of Bethlehem was directly over the corner of the barn where the foaling star was. There was no mistaking that this was a special occurrence-a very special birth just like the one of long ago. I know that Lucky is destined to something very special in this world. Time will tell us what that is and YOU are now part of that process!”
Now there’s a big gulp on my part! I have a big responsibility to bring Country Frank’s Lucky Star along his path of destiny!
Good luck with your new project.