A good friend and collector of several of my sculptures asked me to create a sculpture of his daughter’s successful Half-Arabian reining horse. When I asked the horse owner how she wanted the horse to look, she was very clear. “Baby” had to be shown in a full sliding stop with her saddle blanket, show saddle and bridle, but without her on top! Actually, no horse would do that without a rider, but that’s what she wanted. I worked a long time on this piece, but it turned out really well. We had about 5 hours just on the patina of the horse and tack and then I added an additional 2 hours on the saddle blanket to have it look the way it had to be. The result was unique and Doug ordered a second sculpture for himself.