Twist of Fate Eventing 
RIP Triple Twist 5/23/97-8/17/11 You will be greatly missed and always loved.
As a child I always dreamed of having a Gem Twist of my own. Then a trainer moved to the area and started giving lessons to our Pony Club. It just so happened that she was breeding the Twist lines and I hoped that maybe one day I could get my hands on one. She then disappeared without any warning and nobody knew what had happened to her. A few years later my mom send me an article out of the Hoofprints about the lady's horses and how she had starved them and some local people were trying to get them rescued. Again, I thought just maybe they would need homes at some point and I could finally have one. Well 3 years went by an nothing was ever mentioned again about the horses until I came home from college for Christmas break my graduate year and a friend e-mailed me saying the horses were being auctioned off by the sheriff. I was in no shape to take on another horse. I was teaching lessons every night to help support the 2 I had but I talked my mom into going just in case there was one special mare that really needed to come home with us. I week later in the middle of nowhere, during a huge snowstorm...we went to the auction.
There was one mare that I was interested in but someone told me she had a bidder that was going to pay whatever it took to buy her. She was Triple Twist's dam. So on a whim, I walked down the stallion aisle, with my mom on my heels saying ,"under no circumstances are you taking a stallion home!" When I saw Trey I fell in love. I out bid the meat market and on other bidder and was the proud owner of an unbroken TB stallion. The whole time my mom was telling the that we were stopping at the vet on the way home to have him gelded. It took a lot of convincing but I finally won out. He was the only one register, other than his dam.
Trey was 6 yrs old when I purchased him and had never been ridden. He had been in the wonderful care of his foster parents since being found at 3 yrs old weighing less than 600 lbs. It's hard to believe he's even still alive after seeing pictures of him from the rescue.
I didn't start him under saddle until the Spring of 2003, when I graduated from grad school and finally got him home. He stayed with his foster parents until then. I didn't want to decide about gelding him until I was able to start training and showing him. I felt it would take a while to see if he was going to be worthy of staying a stallion. He is so talented that I feel he could be much further in his career if a professional had him. I just don't have the opportunity to show frequently and go to the many clinics available, so we plug alond and do what we can, but he is a dream come true for me and his show record proves his talent.
