♠Jacks Or Better♠ •600 Subs•

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first of all id like to say thank you all so much for 600 subs :) this means a lot to me! im back to where i was on my old account! and cant wait to get further and further! :) its not the amount of subs that matters to me but the amount of ppl that enjoy watching my videos :) it means a lot to no that that many people care about the videos i work so hard on :) so thank you all so much! i love you guys!

NO CRITIQUE WHAT SO EVER!!!!!!!!!! and in some of the clips he looks lame, thats cause he was, he wasnt a sound horse so leave the rude comments else where
and please dont leave comments telling me ur story about ur horse or saying u no how i feel because honestly u dont feel the same way as i do, you may feel similar but its no the same for everyone
alright so i will type gavans story in a more complicated way, its to hard to fit into a video

i had gone to see this horse to try and i didnt want to go because a horse i had just had on trial failed the vetting and i was upet about it, but i went anyways and i walked in the barn and saw the horse on cross ties and i feel in love! a huge chestnut with a blaze and a sock, he was stunning! the owner wanted him to go to a forever home becuase he had never been owned by someone for more then a year he just kept getting sold, so the owner tacked him up and rode him around a little bit and then..it was my turn to ride this horse! he was literaly perfect! me and him were so amazing together! my dad was gonna buy him for me right there! but we decided to take him on trial and see how it worked at our barn and then get him vetted. so we took him on trial and he was amazing of course!! then the vet came and his feet were horrible and he failed the vetting, me being so in love with this horse just went home and cried because i was going to have to take back the horse i was in love with! so my dad decided that i could get him checked out by the vet again and to see how bad it actually was, the vet said that i probably wouldnt ride that often, jump over 2'6 or show a lot because he would be lame a lot with his low heels and soft feet, but i didnt even have to think about it i was in love with this horse and didnt care if i got no where with riding i wanted this horse more then anything in the world! so on march 4th 2007 i bought my very first horse! we had a amazing journey together for about a year and a half, he gave me my first blue ribbion, champion ribbion, and reserve champion ribbion, me and him were un stopable at shows! he was the first horse i ever galloped and the first horse i ever jumped 3ft on, he was so amazing and would do anything to please me. most of the time though i couldnt ride because he was lame from pulling a shoe or stepping on a rock but that didnt matter to me because i still had him in my life. when he got cellulitus everything seemed to change for us, i obviously couldnt ride because my horse couldnt even walk, he was in the hospital for almost 4 months trying to fight the infection and nothing was killing it, you no i must of really loved him because i drove 45 min to see him everyday over the summer and spent hours grazing him just to drive back home, everytime this leg seemed to get a little bit better the medicine would stop working and we would have to change the medicine, the insurance money ran out and my dad was there for me and put over 10,000 into the vet bills for me (we got 20,000 for life insurance after he passed so i paid my dad back), they did surgerys and injections and all different types of things to try to remove the infection and notihng was working, and on july 25th 2008 there was nothing left for the vets to do for him, the infection had entered his bone and he wouldnt even be pasture sound. i promised gavan i would own him forever and never sell him, and i kept that promise....i had promised him that he would get better soon and come home but that didnt happen and it kills me everyday knowing i broke a promise like that...but then our fight was over, it was the end, there was nothing left to do, so we had to say goodbye.

gavan was only 12 years old when we had to put him down
his show name was Jacks Or Better (hence the title)
i promised the next gelding i get i will name it jack because at the hospital they called gavan jack because he was registered as jacks or better there because of his show name so i want to name my next gelding after him
2.14.97 - 7.25.08

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[Hoofbeats123]

he passed away on my birthday,,,D: Omg im so sorry i was watching the voice over you did about the animal communicater and i just started crying. youve been thru so much. YOu two were amazing and he will always be unforgetable

[Ponchartrain234]

@Hoofbeats123 thank you so much <3

[ariat627]

sorry for your loss, but i noticed you show at monmouth. thats our main show site also where do you ride?

[Ponchartrain234]

ive only been there once and that was in august 2007..its about 45 minutes from my barn..i board at pinebridge..im proly gonna do the monmouth show this year tho

[elitaboobooface]

i know this is old. and i dont want to bring back any sad feelings that have scabbed over. I was watching your other videos on Gavan, i am so sorry for your loss. Three months ago, my first horse was diagnosed with a early case of cellulites in her right hind leg. she could not even walk... i was devestated. I know just how you felt, the vet says theres a slim chance, you pay whatever it takes, hoping your baby will pull though;she did, however. <3 keep strong, glad Gavan was looking out for you

[HezaTreasure2]

this is so sweet :)

[xCodyxKellyx]

aww Jenna. This is so hard for me to watch too. Even though I DONT know how you feel. I'm sure it's not too great. Gavan and you were amazing. He taught you so much, and I love you! RIP Gavan. Big boy now :)

[AllWhiteOccasion]

aw...thats such a sweet story!!

[horsetriplethreat]

what a beautiful video : ) really touching pictures and words, so glad you followed your heart : )

[JadeP567]

im so sorry. he was such a beutifull horse. do u no what the first song in that video is called?x