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Diane Bird ~ Lexington, Virginia
Sherman
Stained Glass
Framed: 15 3/4" x 13 3/4"
$150
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Sherman is a Percheron/Thoroughbred cross who was bred in Virginia and now resides at Hoofbeats Therapeutic Riding Center at the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, VA. His mother was one of the carriage driving horses at Mt. Vernon where he was born, and he inherited the job from her, but had emotional difficulty when she died, as he had never been properly weaned. At some point, people tried to make him a vaulting horse. But Sherman panics when you try to lunge him, and can't be worked in a round pen as he will try to climb out of it to get away. Thus, the vaulting experience was less than a positive experience for him. He then received some basic education at a dressage barn as a lower level pleasure horse. His owners at the time then tried to make a field hunter out of him. But with his huge size and weight, he was just too big and too heavy to run and jump as much as was required, and was lame for two years. They then sent him to Hoofbeats where he is figuring out his job as a therapy horse with his riders in the dressage arena and the games trails. He is learning to dance with the musical kurs and quadrilles, and has medaled his Special Olympics partners and taken all levels of riders to success.
Orobet
Stained Glass
Framed: 16 5/8" x 12 3/4"
$150
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Orobet is a fourteen year old flea-bitten gray off-the track Thoroughbred who resides at Goose Bottom Pond Farm in Lexington, VA with his best friend Kilkenny, also an adopted off-the track TB. He was bred in New York for racing, and although he loves to run, was not fast enough to make it in the racing world. His trainer placed him in an adoption program, where he quickly was adopted by a family in West Virginia. His first adoptive parents both worked for the airlines and lost their jobs after 9/11 and had no choice but to return him to the adoption program. He quickly found another home in Mississippi, but was again put back into the program after his adopters divorced. Thus, at the ripe old age of six, Orobet found himself in Alabama at a foster farm, still looking for his forever home. Not wanting to see him go to yet another situation that might not work out, the artist and her husband adopted him without ever meeting him in person, and arranged for him to be transported to their home in Virginia where he remains today as a loved and cherished part of the family.
Diane Bird ~ Artist
Diane Bird is the fifty-nine year old sole proprietor of EQUIGLAS, a custom equine stained glass business begun in New Jersey in 1995. She now resides with her husband of thirty-five years with their four horses, two cats, and beloved Corgi, Gumby, on their farm in Lexington, Virginia. Living only one and a half miles from the Virginia Horse Center, Bird volunteers at many of the shows held there and is on the organizing committee for all Virginia Horse Trials events. EQUIGLAS has donated stained glass awards for the top finishers in each of the three divisions for the VA CCI*, held in May, since the CCI*’s inception in 2001. In addition, a portion of the proceeds from each EQUIGLAS commissioned order from her website is donated to a nonprofit participating equine program.
Visit the artist’s website at www.equiglas.com.
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