My name is Jenna Smedley and I am a volunteer for the Red Ribbon 4-H club in Washington county Maryland. I was in 4-h for 3 years as a teenager and was vice president and president of the Red Ribbon Club during that time. I have always loved animals and that's why I spent the last 4 years studying to be a veterinarian. I have three older brothers who used to show polled Herford cattle at 4-H shows before I was even old enough to be a 4-her. I grew to love horses from the times I was 3 riding my first pony Lacy. We went all over our farm and sometimes we would ride on the C&O canal. When I was 13 my parents sent me to a horseback riding camp in Vermont. I was there for a whole month. When I returned I couldn't stop talking about how much fun I had so my parents enrolled me in riding lessons.

That's when I first began to show my Thoroughbred mare Nervous Mother. She and I competed locally, in the county fair and at state fair. Nervous and I only got one ribbon that state fair but it was a red ribbon. She and I went into a command class with about 30 riders in it and when the judge called for the counter canter Nervous and I and one other contender were all that was left. After knocking out so many horses on a simple wrong lead, the judge decided to have us back up until one of us was out. Nervous and eye backed into a circle but continued to back around the ring the wrong direction. We eventually hesitated a step and were given the second place ribbon. The next year I was retiring Nervous because she had become Arthritic in her right knee. My new Thoroughbred, Many Wishes, and I again began to show locally and had a lot of fun at state fair for the second year in a row. My last year in 4-H was also attending Virginia tech as a biology major after graduating from St James High School. I really liked school, but it prevented me from show in state fair that last year.

During that summer I found out that Nervous has a form of cancer growing in her sinuses and she went to surgery to have it removed. This was a very hard time for me because my father had died a few months before. Nervous was fine after the surgery except for a hole that opened between her sinus and the outside of her skull. After we got done with all the "hole in the head jokes" her head healed with on a small depression where the bone is missing. She continues to enjoy her retirement on our farm, Heritage Harvest, and is now an amazing 28 years old.

Wishes and I continued to compete in small hunter shows but a bad fall limited my jumping. After a year and a half at V-tech I was ready to move back home, and my mother was in need of my help. We were selling off all of our cattle and bringing in more horses. I had bought a Morgan filly named KBA Vanity Fair several years earlier after she had been starved by her previous owners. I had worked with her father at Antietam Farms and She and I had been showing on the A circuit in pleasure driving for a couple seasons. She had numerous reserve and champion titles and was a lot of fun to ride and drive. We had also acquired recently 2 other Morgan Mares Winterset Begin Agin and EAF Noble Emotion.

While I continued to show Emma, Vanna and Whinie were bred to Born to Boogie a 5 time Grand National grand champion in hand stallion. And in 2002 they gave birth to 2 healthy colts SME Foolish Affair and SME Born Agin. Hoshi and Adian have continued our fun Morgan family and have now fathered 2 daughters and a colt of their own SME Fools Rush in, SME Foolish Emotion, and SME Created Equal. Rushin was recently sold to Alexis one of the RRC's current members who hopes to show her in the future. SME Rules Of Order, Whinie's second son, fathered by Grand Entrance, is 2 this year and is starting his showing carrier in leadline and walk trot with Michaela and Chloe two other RRC members at Old Dominion Morgan Horse show.

Hoshi will soon be moving to New York to join me at Ledgewood Equine Veterinary Clinic as I continue my year long externship. I'm working with a couple of great doctors who are teaching me all about equine practice. In a few weeks I will go to take my ECFVG exam so that I can move back to Maryland to practice after I finish my internship in June of 2007.