History
I'm Garry Brumm, Virtually all my life I had a pony. When I was
old enough to remember, my father Gus, had a grade shetland farm
pony. I am the youngest of three children. As we grew up,
Dad collected a few more ponies, and my sister, brother and I all
showed grade shetland ponies at the county fairs. We also had a
few quarter horses around to trail ride. While I was dating Anne
in high school, we would trail ride all the time, but my true love was
showing ponies. While in high school, I showed two hackney ponies
and a roadster shetland pony. In 1973 when I went to college at
Murray State University to play football we sold out. I was the
last one at home and we sold all the horses, ponies and most of the
equipment.
Anne
and I got married in college (August 6, 1976) and had our first of four
children while in college (Josh (JT), December 15, 1977). A few
years out of college and after number two child (Keaton, June 24, 1980)
we bought our first family pony for JT to show. We sold that pony
in 1982 when we moved to Idaho to start a new career. We moved
back to the Midwest later in 1982 with a promotion to pursue the same
career. In 1983 we finally ended up in Crown Point, Indiana and
number three was born (Jordan, June 30, 1983). In 1984 we
purchased several grade shetland ponies and started showing the county
fair circuits. As the kids got older we started buying better
ponies--a couple of hackneys and the shetland B.F.S. Sudden Danger and
continued showing the county fairs. In 1988 number four was born
(Zachary, September 14, 1988).
The
county fair competition was getting tougher and the kids were getting
older. In 1990 we purchased Hollywood Dazzle as a 2 year old from
Barb Heywood. In 1991 we purchased a group of shetlands from
Warren Hansen. One of the ponies in that group was a 2 year old
named Wait & See's Black Satin. In 1992 we purchased 4 year
old Missy's Hot Pepper from the Shetland National Sale from Jim
Knight. In 1994 Hollywood Dazzle went on to win his first of ten
in a row National Grand Championships in the Formal Pleasure Driving
division. In 1996 Missy's Hot Pepper won the National Grand
Champion Roadster Pony over, and in 2001, Wait & See's Black Satin
won his first of five in a row National Grand Champion Roadster Pony
over titles. During these years the kids were doing most of the
showing at the county fairs and at recognized shetland shows in kid
classes and open/stake classes.
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