With stallions – including Mr Sherlock Holmes and Goodcowboymargarita – standing at her Case de los Cielos Ranch in Waller County, Texas, and a new partner to mark her return to the show arena after a 15-year hiatus Mary Webre doesn’t have a lot of spare time.

But if you ask her, that’s just the way she likes it. Webre’s love for horses was ignited at an early age.

“When I was little, my neighbors had a horse named Big Red,” she recalled. “We were allowed to feed him carrots and apples, and sometimes ride him. I used to play hooky from school with my best friend and go to the barn to see the horses and never got caught. We’d spend the whole day there, eat lunch, everything.”

She started showing in 4-H and had astate level winning Halter horse. It just continued to grow from there.

Ohio trainer Brian Baker met Webre 21 years ago when she had horses in training with Jay Jordan. Baker was working for Jordan at the time and it was there that he rodehis very first horse for Mary.

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Since then, one of the most successful horses Mary raised and Brian trained is Mr Sherlock Holmes. The 2011 sorrel stallion by Zippos Mr Good Bar and out of Dont Skip Krymsun made his show debut by claiming a Reserve Championship in the Hylton Maiden 3 & Over Western Pleasure. From there he went on to become a Congress Champion and AQHA Reserve World Champion. He was the AQHA High Point Western Pleasure Stallion in 2016 and Reserve in 2017, earned a Superior in Western Pleasure and has over $13,000 in total earnings.

“Every trainer that ever saw Mr Sherlock Holmes knew he was special,” Webre said.

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Brian and his wife, Dawn, also trained and exhibited the other stallions standing to the public at Mary’s Case de los Cielos Ranch.

Admit It Im Good, sired by Zippos Mr Good Bar out of Amiga Chip. A two-time Reserve Quarter Horse Congress Champion, Admit It Im Good has 64 AQHA Western Pleasure points and placed third in the $10,000 Limited Horse Western Pleasure. He was top 10 in the NSBA Breeders Championship Futurity as well as at the Reichert Celebration and Southern Belle Invitation.

Webre recently purchased 2009 NSBA Horse of the Year, Goodcowboymargarita, sired by Zippos Mr Goodbar and out of One Potent Margarita, who is by Potential Investment and out of Scotch Margarita, one of the most decorated mares in AQHA history with over 2,000 points and seven World and Congress Championships.

Brian showed Goodcowboymargarita to the 2016 AQHA High Point Open Western Pleasure Stallion title and they earned three NSBA World Championship as well as a Congress Reserve Championship. He was also Reserve World Champion in Amateur Western Pleasure in 2015.

“I loved and admired Goodcowboymargarita as a yearling, 2 and 3-year old,” Webre said. “When he came up for sale I knew I wanted him. With his pedigree and show record I knew he would be a good addition to our breeding program.”

Webre also owned the late two-time Congress Champion and Reserve World Champion Chips Hot Chocolate. With very limited offspring, the multiple World Champion sire’s foals earned over 19,000 points and Webre has owned many of his offspring and continues to promote and breed his daughters.

Her own breeding program has always been at the center of Webre’s mission.

“I am a breeder and I love a challenge,” Webre said. “I truly believe the dam side is very important in breeding.”

And she has some of the best in the industry, including daughters of January Investment, Are You Zipped, Rhapsody In The Rain, Amiga Chex, Krymsun Jet Set, Invite Me Please, In Zippos Good Image, Dellas Good Version, Ima Potential, Troubles A Blazin and One Potential Margarita.

Webre’s new show partner will eventually be added to that impressive list as well.

When Mary expressed an interest in returning to the show pen herself last year, Brain and Dawn found the perfect match in Moonlight Imagination, a 2016 bay mare by Only In The Moonlite and out of Ima Potential.

Moonlight Imagination (Jenny) was already in the Baker program. In 2019 Brian showed her to a fourth place finish in the Hylton Maiden 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure and Dawn placed 12th on her in the Green Western Pleasure at the 2019 AQHA World Show. With Nick Weis, Jenny earned a NSBA Breeders Championship Futurity (BCF) win and two Reserve Championships. She has earnings in excess of $23,000.

“She trusted Dawn and I that it was the right horse for her, and it has proven to be a wise choice,” Brian said. “Mary hadn’t shown in a long time but with the crazy year we had last year it didn’t take long for her to find her footing again. She has a lot of natural ability and we knew it would be a perfect match.”

It took until the Arizona Fall Championship Show for the new team to click but since then, their performance together has been near perfect, winning nearly every circuit they attended, finishing in the Top 10 in two different classes at the NSBA World Show and placing third in the Level 1 Amateur Select World Show in November.

“I knew she was the one to get me back in the show pen after 15 years,” Mary said. “She’s a half-sister to No Doubting Me on the dam’s side.”

In addition to Mr Sherlock Holmes and Admit It Im Good, Brian and Dawn Baker also trained and showed Allured To Chocolate and ImCruisinInaHotrod for Webre.

Allured To Chocolate, a 2008 sorrel stallion by Chips Hot Chocolate and out of Alluring Invitation earned 177.5 AQHA points and a NSBA World Championship in Green Western Pleasure in 2012. In addition, he was top 10 at the Quarter Horse Congress Little Futurity and Reichert Celebration.

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ImCruisinInaHotrod, a 2002 chestnut stallion by Hotroddin Zippo and out of Bee Jays Investment earned 111.5 AQHA points and was the 2010 Senior Hunter Under Saddle Reserve NSBA World Champion as well as the AQHA High Point Green Hunter Under Saddle Champion in 2010.

“I’ve known him (Brian) since he graduated from college,” Mary said. “They’re family to me. I am their longest client and I love and appreciate them. They taught me how to better understand how to ride the pleasure horses. They prepare Jenny specifically for me and really help me understand her.”

Webre is still eligible to show in Level 1 so Brian says the plan is for Mary to show her mare, do well and have fun.”

After that, Webre’s goal is to show one of her stallions’ offspring. Many are showing tremendous promise.

In addition to the Baker program, Mary also has Western Pleasure youngsters in training with Aaron Moses and all-around contenders in training with Nick Mayabb and Becky George.

Webre’s stallions are standing at Casa de los Cielos, which includes four different pieces of property, three breeding facilities and one training barn and is located just outside Houston, Texas. The 2021 fees:

• Mr Sherlock Holmes – $1,250.

• Good Cowboy Margarita – $1,250.

• Admit It Im Good – $1,000.

For breeding information and stallion contracts email John Hardman, breeding manager at jhardman@exede.net or call or text Webre at (713) 545-5298. Special considerations are available for past breeders or champion mares.

Max Guerri is the head trainer at Casa de los Cielos. He is a multiple European National Champion in Western Pleasure and excels in Trail.

“He starts almost all of the babies before they head off to training, providing a good and solid foundation,” Webre said. “He holds down the fort at home and we could not run the operation without him.”

You can contact Max by text at (979) 347-2755 or by visiting his Facebook page for prospect information.

To celebrate the birthday of Arthur Conan Doyle, we’re writing about all things Sherlockian/ACD today. This piece on Sherlock Holmes’s mental health is sponsored by The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton.

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The sixth season of Elementary, CBS’s modern-day take on the legendary duo of Holmes and Watson, recently debuted with the revelation that Sherlock Holmes’s mental health has taken a hit. He is suffering from post-concussion syndrome, a condition that will interfere with his ability to do his job and even to be himself. It’s shaping up to be the season’s big story arc, so now seems like a good time to discuss just what goes on in Holmes’s head anyway.

Sherlock Holmes has one of the most revered minds in all of fiction. He’s been rightfully celebrated for his powers of observation, his inductive skills, and his cool logic. And yet we still know so little about how his brain actually works. Because Arthur Conan Doyle wrote these stories well before many neurological conditions were named or properly understood, and because Arthur Conan Doyle didn’t give two figs for continuity, the idea of playing armchair psychologist and making a definite diagnosis is laughable. Instead, like with all other parts of the canon, everything we read is a matter of individual interpretation. So let’s look at some of the possible interpretations, shall we?

Substance Abuse

Whether or not Holmes’s drug use ever veered into outright addiction is a popular topic for adaptations to delve into. Watson expressed alarm about Holmes’s drug habit more than once in the canon. “I was horrified by my first glimpse of Holmes next morning…” Watson reports in The Missing Three-Quarter, when he finds Holmes with a syringe. “I feared the worst when I saw it glittering in his hand.”

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Don’t worry, though. In this case, Holmes was just using the syringe to spritz aniseed over a suspect’s carriage wheel to make for easier tracking. But that’s hardly enough to render Watson’s concerns invalid. Is it possible that Holmes could spend years intermittently using both morphine and cocaine and somehow not develop a dependency on either substance? Either way, addict or not, we can all agree that Holmes uses way too many drugs. And that’s not even getting into his smoking habit…

Mental Illness

There is also the very real possibility that Holmes suffered from some kind of mental illness, something that caused him to “get in the dumps” and not speak “for days on end,” as Holmes describes it in A Study in Scarlet. That could signify a variety of things, including depression or perhaps bipolar disorder.

Insomnia may also be a symptom of whatever Holmes suffers from, though that depends on what story you read. In A Study in Scarlet, Watson claims Holmes regularly goes to bed by ten and is out of the house before Watson gets up in the mornings. But by The Hound of the Baskervilles, all of a sudden Holmes is a perpetually late riser, “save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night.” Maybe he sometimes has trouble sleeping and sometimes doesn’t? Your guess is as good as ours.

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Autism

Another popular theory posits that Holmes is on the autism spectrum. While this would have made Holmes’s life more challenging in some respects, it could have proven advantageous in others. If Holmes is autistic, it would explain several facets of his personality in one fell swoop, including his:

• lack of social graces. In The Norwood Builder, Holmes claps in delight at the prospect of his client going to jail. Said client is standing distraught right in front of him.
• intense, focused interest in crime. Anything that isn’t crime-related, including sports trivia and heliocentrism, can go hang for all Holmes cares. But if something can serve him in his work, such as identifying different kinds of tobacco ash on sight, you can bet Holmes is the world’s foremost expert on the topic.
• habit of forgetting to take care of himself. Again from The Norwood Builder, Watson says that, if the case is interesting enough, Holmes will starve himself until he passes out!

BBC’s Sherlock has played with the concept that their Holmes could be autistic, mainly via facetious comments from the other characters. Elementary also gave a nod in that direction. In season four, an autistic woman says that Watson is neuroatypical, but adds that she can’t quite tell if Holmes is neuroatypical or not.

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And so we have come full circle. Our discussion began with Elementary, and here it will end. All that remains is to remind our dear readers that the Holmes canon is inherently unreliable. This is as true regarding descriptions of Sherlock Holmes’s mental health as it is anything else. Holmes is clearly a complicated man, but how complicated, and in what ways? There are no right or wrong answers here—just millions of devoted fans enjoying Holmes’s adventures in whatever way makes them happiest.