These are pictures of Emily and her partner, Casper from 2014 through 2019 - I will send a link to the professional photographer that took the pictures in August 2020 of Casper's last professional performance. Emily Hedrick was 12 when she wrote this about Casper – the first horse she saved and saved to buy with her own earnings from Rodeo trick riding – This young girl was wise beyond her years and wrote from her heart – here we are, almost 7 years later and Victory Alliance Ranch is honored to be Casper’s retirement home! Emily is still trick riding, but rather than risk further injury, Casper gets to live out his days at the ranch looking gorgeous, getting lots of grooming, love and attention and listening to secrets from other girls that fall in love with him (and some old ladies too)!!! November 20, 2014: And he looks at me, with eyes wiser than his years. He cannot tell me what his mind is saying, so instead he uses his powerful body to communicate. Sometimes his eyes alone can show the meaning behind his actions and other times just the way he carries himself tells me how he feels. There is no truer friend then him, for he knows me inside and out. When I sit astride him he listens to what my body tells him; not because he has to, but because he WANTS to. You cannot trap his spirit or be his master, for his soul alone is purer, his body, rippled with muscle, more powerful, his heart more forgiving than your own. He is an Angel without wings, his forelock and mane, his halo. He is more courageous, more loving, more trusting, more powerful, than any other being in this world - and yet so gentle as to let me join him on his Journey. He is my best friend, who tells no one of my secrets, who rejoices in my joys, shares in my sorrows, and his neck is always there to wrap around me in a caress. A caress that gives me everything I've ever needed: Warmth, security, hope, strength, and reassurance. I cannot break his spirit, nor would I ever want to. I cannot be his Master; only his Partner. When I do wrong, he does not judge me. When I cry, he comforts me. When I laugh, he prances around with his head held high and his tail streaming behind like silk. It is not I who teach him, it is he who teaches me. He does not need to talk for me to listen, I understand him in a way I'll never understand even myself. And he knows me, more than anyone that walks this earth. And he accepts me, for everything I am and everything I am not.