Pretty in pink: N&N Trailer Sales makes girl's wish come true


Kaylee Goddard of Muscatine poses next to the pink horse trailer built at N&N Trailer Sales in Monticello. Goddard wanted the family’s new trailer to be pink to promote breast cancer awareness. (Photo by Pete Temple)
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Pete Temple
Express Sports/Ag Editor

     It’s not something you see every day. In fact, in 33 years of manufacturing trailers, N&N Trailer Sales of Monticello had never built one like this.

     A pink horse trailer.

     Kaylee Goddard, a 15-year-old horse lover from Muscatine, wanted to do something special to honor her grandmother, Debbie Goddard, a breast cancer survivor who has twice battled the disease.

     The Goddard family wanted a new horse trailer, so Kaylee and her father Jason decided to ask N&N if it could be painted pink to promote breast cancer awareness.

     “When I found out we could paint it pink, I decided I wanted that for her,” Kaylee said.

     “It was her idea,” Jason said. “She really likes to do anything that she can, pink.”

     Jason went searching on the Internet, and found N&N in Monticello. He decided to surprise Debbie, who is Jason’s mother; but one of the biggest surprises was reserved for Kaylee.

     Jason told his daughter that N&N didn’t want to paint it pink, so their new trailer was going to be blue.

     But when he drove Kaylee to Monticello May 30 to pick it up, the trailer was pink as could be, in a shade called “razzle-dazzle pink.”

     “I was really surprised, and happy that he did it, because it turned out really well,” Kaylee said.

     Jeff Nagel sold the trailer to the Goddard family. It is seven feet wide, 24 feet long, and could carry up to nine horses. It will be used to transport horses to horse shows. Kaylee is in her second year in a 4-H group that shows horses, and says that barrel racing is her favorite event.

     “It’s really fun,” the incoming sophomore at Muscatine High School said. “You get to bond with new people that show, and I like the competition.”

     Also on hand to pick up the trailer, besides Jason and Kaylee, were Jason’s father Dean and Kaylee’s 7-year-old sister, Jaylynn. Jason’s wife, Britt, was unable to make the trip because of work.

     Jason Goddard said he was happy to be a customer of N&N.

     “I like to give business to a local family better than a big corporation, so I’m glad that we got hooked up with them, and we’re extremely happy with the result we got,” he said.

     The novelty of the pink trailer wasn’t lost on those who saw it before the Goddards were able to come pick it up.

     “We had some of our friends drive by it the other night,” said Kathy Nagel of N&N. “They turned around and came back and had to take a picture of it.”

 

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