Slow Legs is well-named, her connections say.

The 2002 sorrel mare used her slow, slow legs to take her to the top of class in junior hunter hack November 16 during the 2007 AQHA World Championship Show.

AQHA Professional Horseman Lainie Deboer guided Slow Legs around the course.

“She was really, really good,” Lainie said. “She’s extremely green, and this is her only class for the whole horse show, and so it was unexpected. She went in here and she’s just a true show horse. She’s very good.”

Owners Robert and Kim Huver of Cannon Falls, Minnesota, knew the mare was green and didn’t expect the mare to do as well as she did.

“You always want to win,” Robert said. “We didn’t necessarily know we were going to be that high. She’s green, but Kim and Lainie have done a great job with her.”

Kim shows the mare in flat classes.

“I train her, and then Lainie jumps her,” Kim said. “She’s a lot of fun. Her name is Slow Legs, and that’s how she travels.”

The name fits the mare so well, in fact, that it’s her barn name, too. Lainie concentrated on that quality while working her way through the jumps, thinking about keeping her steady.

“She has such an amazing canter,” Lainie said. “Her name is truly what her gait is, and I just tried to show off that she has such a beautiful gait. Easy and steady.”

The Huvers haven’t owned Slow Legs long, but they already have plans for her winter vacation.

“She’s going to go home and learn how to pull a buggy,” Kim said. “Lainie’s going to show her in the green and the senior, and I’m going to show her in the cart – hopefully -- and the under saddle is our goal for her next year.”