Katchi Kapshi 

The Golightly Sport Horses string of competition horses is a string of one - Katchi!  But, he's pretty darn good, and I love riding him!  So, one is okay with me.  A nice thing about having one horse is they get your 100% focus - but a bad thing about one horse is they get your 100% focus!  Good and bad, I've made Katchi what he is.  I purchased him as a 5 year old in 2006.  Under a different name (Sportin' Merle), he had raced 12 times (as a 3 and 4 year old) - earning just under $12,000.  It was time for a new career. He spent a couple of months learning about riding rings and colored poles, and then enjoyed life in a field for about a year.  When I picked him up - fat and bored - little did I know how much work it would be to develop this cute little OTTB, nicknamed "Squirrely Merley", into the star I'm riding now!  The first order of business was a new name - I selected the Korean phrase, Katchi Kapshi, because it means - we go together - at the time, I didn't realize just how perfect his new name would be, eventually!  Below are a few pictures of Katchi, then and now. You can view his recent USEA competition record here.

Check out the November 2011 article about Katchi and me on OffTrackThoroughbreds.com, "A day in Kabul leads to racehorse, joyous life".  

Videos of Katchi -

Video of Katchi's 2nd place finish (out of nearly 40 horses!) at 2011 Hagyard MidSouth Training Level Three Day Event at the Kentucky Horse Park plus Roads & Tracks video too!

Katchi tearning up XC at his first Prelim - Maryland Horse Trials II at Loch Moy - July 2011

The famous BAD KATCHI video!!!

The RUN KATCHI RUN helmet cam!  At the Area II Training Championships (Oct 2010), I wore a helmet cam on XC - too cool!! GOOD BOY KATCHI!

Fair Hill HT, August 2010 - video of Katchi on XC!

Katchi moving up the levels...

2011 - Katchi completed his first Prelim at Loch Moy II in July!!!!

Katchi in 2010 - settling into Training Level, Katchi earned a USEA Silver Medal, Area II Year End Hi-point Award (3rd place), and Area II Training Championships (3rd place).

Katchi on his first Training Level cross country course  - The Maryland Horse Trials at Loch Moy - July 2009

September 2008, Marlborough Horse Trials - Katchi moved right up to Novice at his 2nd horse trial, and finished in 3rd!

After 2 years of dressage shows and cross country schooling - Katchi made his debut as an event horse!  Here he is on his way to finishing 2nd at his first horse trial  - Beginner Novice at Difficult Run Pony Club Horse Trials - August 2008

October 2006 - when I first went to look at "Squirrely Merley" as a sales horse, he was fat and lazy (with a reputation for being suddenly squirrely!) - look at his eye in this photo - totally unaware of the fun I had planned for his future!