Kona Gold

(Kona Gold, Top, Cigar Watching Kona Gold, Bottom)

I don't know a lot about Kona Gold other than he is a Throroughbred. I read about him though and he accomplished quite a bit in his years of racing. http://www.kyhorsepark.com/kids/sub.php?pageid=115&sectionid=1 I think during Kona's years of racing, I didn't pay a lot of attention to what was going on in the racing world. Thats changed now because I have a very good friend who is very into horse racing and Saddlebreds. (and my pictures reflect this don't they!?)

While I was photographing Cigar, they had let Kona Gold out in his Paddock and he was running around like a "mad man" neighing and having a good old time!

Since I had never seen Cigar with his head up out of the grass, I chose to stay where I was and photograph Kona From a distance. I have a lot of photos of Cigar's head turned towards Kona's Pasture. Cigar did call to him a few times, and I have a feeling that if he could have, he would've run the fence next to Kona. It really was a testament to cigar's personality that he didn't get all squirrelly and DEMAND to run next to Kona Gold. (I'm sure if Cigar was 10 years younger, he would have :-))

Happy Friday!