Point Being and Quotable in their presentation with Ken and Selma Garber and Sally Stith-Burdette of Shapley's Grooming Products (Sportfot)
Point Being is a new mount for Farmer that she is aiming at the High Performance Working Hunter divisions as well as the derby ring.
"I'm really excited about him. I think his niche is really going to be the four-foot [division]. He won the High Performance stake today, and I'm just doing him in this [division] so he gets a little more comfortable walking in the ring and jumping the bigger jumps. That's sort of where we're going to aim at, is High Performance and derbies for him, so I'm really excited about that," Farmer smiled.
Farmer and Quotable have won many division titles up and down the East Coast over their last year together, and while the handsome bay gelding certainly had the potential to be great, Farmer noted that a horse has to prove themselves in the ring before she assumes they'll go on to be winners.
"He had the parts to be [great]," Farmer said. "Until they go in the ring and do it, [you never really know]. Some horses have the parts and it never really comes together, and some horses walk in the ring and try harder than anything. It's just whether it's channeled correctly and whether they have the desire. They have to have the desire to win, and [Quotable] does."
As he left the ring after jogging Quotable, trainer and part-owner Larry Glefke declared that Thursday was the best the horse had gone during the entire FTI WEF circuit. Farmer agreed that Quotable laid down two spectacular rounds on Thursday, but with a horse that wins as much as Quotable, there's never a day that he isn't on point.
"He had two beautiful rounds today. He tries to go well all the time, he really does. He's a professional show horse, and he really tries to go well every time," Farmer described.
She continued, "He's a year older, he's more mature. He know his job, and he's a winner. He wants to win. I can't discount all the other times he's gone well, but I was thrilled with him [today]."
That will to win is part of what makes the gelding so unbeatable, according to Farmer.
"He walks in the ring and he's winning. He has to do something wrong not to, you know? He's done enough at enough places that he knows what to do to win. If he makes a mistake, it's not because he's trying to do something wrong. Some horses help you and some horses don't, and he's definitely one that helps you," Farmer explained.
Quotable also possesses the air of a champion, which combined with his good looks, have helped him move up to first place on the rare occasion he wasn't already placed there before the jog.
"He's beautifully put together. He shows himself. He walks in the ring, and he know he's a pretty horse. Not only is he very correct, but he also has a presence about himself," Farmer remarked.