Within 18 months, my death warrant and I had acquired enough points to earn her Pinto Register of Merit in both Hunter Under Saddle and English Pleasure, and I started jumping her.

I chose her registered name to be Sugarplum Vision from the line in Clement Clarke Moore's holiday poem: "...while visions of Sugarplums danced in their heads." A Sugarplum is a sweet treat reserved for special occasions, and the reference to dancing implies graceful movement. Sugar refers to my being diabetic and Vision to my being blind.

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