Suzanne Muma. My name is Suzanne Muma and my horse Joey, is a TB. We are showing our 2nd year in Novice Horse Training Level and next year we will move to Open Training Level. I am a RN at Kalamazoo Hematology and Oncology which is an outpatient clinic. My patients love to hear stories about Joey and are very supportive during our show season. In fact some have come to see us show at some of the shows in the Kalamazoo area.
I started riding dressage with Rosie Kirklin at Walnut Manor in 1980 and trained with her until 1984. I didn't start riding again until the mid 1990s when Pam DeHaan and I started riding with Mel Plott. At that time I had a Morgan named Digger Dan and I did my first Glass-Ed shows with him.
Digger became my daughter's horse, and I bought Buster Brown, an Appendex Quarter Horse which I owned and showed in Glass-Ed for about 10 years.
In 2004 we bought Joey(Cuppa Joe) from a trainer/friend of ours in Rockford for Carly because she wanted to Event and Digger was to old. Amanda, our trainer/friend had purchased Joey from a racetrack auction and trained him for a year especially to sell as an eventing horse. We fell in love with Joey! Carly and Joey evented at Richland Park in 2006, Novice Level. Carly started her senior year that fall and was to busy to keep up her riding, so in the spring, I sold Buster to Mel and started riding Joey. We hit it off right away. We had been boarding at Equine Line and with Mel's training , the encouragement and help from Mary and my riding friends, the transition to riding a new horse was easy. Joey made it easy. I have always been a nervous rider and Joey is calm, cool and becoming collected. I have become a confident rider because of him and because of this,I am becoming a better ride
