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A Sad Beginning

Let me start at the beginning. Yesterday my mom, grandmom, and I went down to Oklahoma to pick up this horse I wanted to try (I'm starting to get back into the horse thing). Anyway I fell in love with him at this horseshow the week before and the owner was gracious enough to let us take him back to our vet to do the pre-purchase. Well, as soon as we got him back to our barn, the vet was there and he watched him move in the round pen and flexed and felt his legs a bit. He said he moved okay with little to no lameness. I had a name picked out and everything for this horse! He had his own stall. I dreamed about him at night. I though about how wonderful our future was going to be together. I totally got ahead of myself. So today we took him up to the vet clinic to get him x-rayed just as a formality. As I feared, we found something wrong with his nevicular bone in his front foot and the vet said that he probably wouldn't last more than a year with that sort of injury. I lost it. I cried and cried and cried. All my dreams out the window because of one simple sentence "Oh god you don't want THIS horse!"Right after that we took him back to Oklahoma. It's sort of a long drive, but during all that drive time I came up with something: this horse didn't pass the vet check for a reason. There is a better horse out there for me. I really believe that. I hope it comes true. :)