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A well-trained Starrfire gracefully takes a bow after her performance.
Horse Lover Turns Hobby into Profit
BY KIMBERLY HERR
MANHEIM Take something
you simply love to do and turn it
into a money-making career.
Sound too good to be true?
For Jennifer Lowry, Manheun, it
is a reality.
At age 21, Jennifer recently sold
her Arabian filly for $150,000. She
and her parents, Sandy and Or. R.
Tempest, had invested $1,500 for
the filly’s mother and $2,500 to
have the mare bred. The in
vestment paid off at the Summer
Spectacular show and sale, which
took place at Lasma East,
Louisville, Ky., one of the largest
Arabian ranches in the country.
Sound like an easy profit?
There is much more involved.
"It’s not an overnight success,”
Jennifer’s mother explained.
Jennifer’s parents said they
knew she was a horse lover when
she started collecting horse
figurines as a child and was un
concerned when she was bitten in
—. . a well-trained
gelding. Jennifer has taught him the art of dressage. His arched
neck and tail are true signs of an Arabian.
This is a coft, born to one of Jennifer's Arabian mares. She used it to illustrate how
through the proper breeding, the offspring will not have the same flaws that are
characteristic of the parents.
the chest by a horse when she was
young.
"I used to ride our German
Shepherd,” Jennifer laughed.
Jennifer got her first horse in
1974. How did her interest in horses
develop?
■‘l don’t think it ever developed,"
Jennifer chuckled. "1 think it was
always there. I don’t remember
ever being afraid of them.’’'
Her passion for horses takes up
much of her tune.
"1 take 12 months to decide who
to breed each mare to," Jennifer
said.
When she chose the stallion to
breed her mare to, she trusted her
instincts and came up with a
winner.
“It was a long shot because the
stallion had not been bred before,"
Jennifer explained.
Jennifer’s father commented on
Jennifer's choice.
“We found a nick," he said,
explaining that a nick means the
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genes of both animals have
clicked.
Jennifer explained that breeders
try to develop a match that will
produce a horse similar to what the
ideal Arabian horse should look
like.
"We came awfully close on our
first time," she said. “She had the
most beautiful head and one of the
most perfect bodies.”
Dr. La Croix, owner of Lasma
East, told Jennifer her filly was
"one of the best’ ’ he had seen.
Named Galizja Rohan and
nicknamed Zja Zja, this horse was
rated by some people at the show
as being worth about $400,000. The
mare that foaled the filly is now
worth about $600,000, one and a
halftimes the price of the filly.
Using this mare, Jennifer
pointed out the features of an
Arabian horse: "a beautiful face,
the width between the eyes and the
shortness of the head."
"They are functional, not only
pretty,’’ Jennifer added, ex
plaining they were bred for en
durance when galloping in the
desert. "They were also bred to be
companions,” Jennifer said of the
first Arabian horses.
Watching Jennifer with her
horses - she has 10 - the idea of
companionship is still apparent.
'The horses not only obey her
commands, but seem to want to
please her.
An Arabian gelding, Wmdsong,
is testimony to Jennifer’s patience
and skill in training horses. When
she first got him, he was too wild to
even be led around the pasture.
Today, he is not only able to be
ridden, but he is trained in the art
of dressage, which involves giving
the horse directions that are so
subtle that they cannot be ob
served by someone watching the
horse and rider.
'T just had the biggest battles
with him," Jennifer remembered.
Jennifer’s skill in training horses
comes from many hours of
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