A Brief Bio

In addition to our profile on GPS' blog from earlier this week, I'd like to help you guys get to know us a little better with a brief bio. Good Time "Charlie", race name Robert T and previously Wings On Four, is a 2011 pace-bred Standardbred gelding by As Promised and out of Island Romance. He was started for the track in southern Alberta, however it became apparent that he wasn't quite mature enough for training and was returned to pasture for the remained of the season. The following year, he was sent to the Vancouver area to continue his training, however Charlie ultimately decided that he did not want to be a racehorse after all. He was picked up at a Vancouver-area stockyard by Maple Ridge-based J&M Acres Horse Rescue (here and here) in early March 2014. This is how Charlie was discovered by me, his current owner and trainer - on Facebook. In March 2014, I saw a picture of him posted by J&M and I just could not stop thinking about it - so just "for the heck of it", I inquired about him. Sure enough, two weeks later, he was on a trailer from Maple Ridge to Edmonton, AB to start his new life. I started Charlie under saddle in late April 2014, and we began dressage training in August of that year. Our first Bronze Level dressage show was in March 2015, and we continued to compete on the local Bronze circuit in Walk-Trot and Training Level throughout the 2015 season. In November 2015, Charlie and I moved to Sherbrooke, QC, where we have since settled and recently started jumping training. We are aiming for Combined and possibly Eventing tests for the 2016 show season, with our first Combined show planned for early May 2016. Follow us throughout the season here on our blog, here on GPS' blog, and here on our Facebook page. We appreciate any and all support we get - we wouldn't be where we are without it.