The second day of the Region 10 Experience featured trail, youth and reining.

Lynn Agee and her homebred mare Impulsive Grace

Lynn Agee of Kingsport, Tennessee, has been riding the blood of her mare, Impulsive Grace, for three generations now.

She originally purchased the granddam of “Gracie,” a mare named Mista Ree, and showed her as a hunter, earning the 1982 mare’s open performance ROM. Lynn bred the mare to the stallion The Little Gremlin, resulting in a mare named A Genuine Gremlin, who she showed successfully in longe line events, but the mare’s career was cut short due to injury. To the cover of A Sudden Impulse, in 2000 the mare produced Gracie.

Agee waited patiently for Gracie to mature into a show horse, and at about 5 they began showing in earnest. Now competing in Select, they are busy in all around events including showmanship, pleasure, horsemanship and trail. Lynn maintains Gracie’s training herself, and the mare lives at home. They head to horse shows one or two weekends per month.

Gracie has nearly 200 points — “And I put every one of them on her,” Lynn said proudly. She has also earned her amateur superior in showmanship, trail and western horsemanship; open and amateur performance ROM and halter ROM; and is an AQHA performance champion.

“She is just a wonderful horse,” Lynn said. “She’s laid back, and she just wants to please. She’s just so easy to show.”

Gracie is one of nine horses that Lynn, who is a supervisor for an Office Max inbound call center, owns. She has Gracie’s little brother, who is working on filling the big hoofprints left by his sister.

“She’ll be hard to replace,” Lynn said. “Everyone around here knows Gracie.”

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