When I was 13 years old, my dad bought me a horse. It was an Appaloosa filly. She was a young horse, only nine months old when I got her, but I could not ask for a better horse. I named her Virginia. The exact reason I named her that has since been...
If you can't bear the thought of not working with horses on a day-to-day basis, here are some careers to consider. Groom: Grooms typically tend to the general maintenance of a horse. This includes cleaning stalls, feeding hay and supplements, washi...
As long as I can remember, horses have been a part of my life. I do believe I came out of the womb loving them. One of my earliest memories is of me begging my mother to let me ride the ponies at the fair. I also demanded to ride the mechanical horses...
We've all seen the slogans, "everything I need to know I learned from" fill-in-the-blank. As horse people, we do learn a lot from our horses. If the world could just use horse sense we'd have a much smoother operation world-wide. One of the first things...
This is the tale of a special gelding who touched the lives of a lot of people and is sorely missed. It was a cold April morning. I couldn't sleep so I was wide awake for our long hour and a half drive south. I wasn't sure I would find anything at an...
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