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| Things you learn when you own a horse |
1. People who don't take care of their own horses will be the first ones to tell you how to care for yours.
2. You should never buy a cheap girth!
3. A handsome horse who's badly behaved will become a lot less attractive in about 15 minutes.
4. People who think they have nothing more to learn about riding, hit the ground the hardest.
5. Children and ponies are natural allies and often have identical dispositions.
6. The richest horse people most often look the poorest.
7. The closeness of a horse is one of the sweetest smells in the world.
8. A solitary ride through the woods is more beneficial then six months with the best psychiatrist.
9. The worse a person rides the more likely they are going to blame it on the horse.
10. The best thing about going to the barn first thing in the morning is that horses don't care how you look.
11. If a dealer insists a horse is worth twice what he's asking he's usually worth half that much.
12. The best way to appreciate how another person rides is to get on their horse, but it can be a quick way to get hurt.
13. I can recognize another horse person no matter what town, city, state, county or country I visit.
14. You can never have too many hoof picks.
15. It is not wise to argue with something that outweighs you buy 1,000 pounds
16. I'd rather have a horse with a perfect mind then a perfect head.
17. If you think you have left the water on in the barn you have, if you think you have closed the pasture gate, you haven't.
18. When someone asks you if you like their horse always say 'yes'.
19. The happiest people I know own horses, dogs, cats and at least one deranged goat.
20. If you're looking for the perfect horse you will never own one.
21. Owning a horse can either make a marriage or break it.
22. I'd rather lose my lipstick than my curb chain.
23. You shouldn't talk about your first place ribbon to someone that came second.
24. If someone says that horse has a little buck, it has a BIG buck.
25. If we need rain, schedule a show.
26. I've never warmed up to someone that didn't want a walk down to the stables.
27. A clean stables and a sparkling horse are among life's great pleasures.
28. Even free horses can be too expensive. Especially, free horses.
29. No matter how badly behaved you are, your horse always gives you a second chance.
30. A more expensive horse doesn't make a better one.
31. I will never ever have an empty stable and I have accepted that fact.
32. Losing a horse can break your heart, but it will have been worth it.
'If you can't imagine life without a horse... DON'T
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He was tied up to the trailer out behind the stands,
A blaze-face sorrel gelding, standing roughly 15 hands,
High withers, slightly ewe-necked, his back a little swayed,
White hairs on his muzzle, his eyes sunk in with age.
An old warrior whose best years long since gone away,
Just left here baby-sitting at a small-town horse play-day.
Watched over by her parents, a young girl kissed the horse;
They coached her on the finer points and wished her luck, of course.
He hardly seemed to notice when the small girl took his lead;
He followed without balking but did not move with any speed.
She climbed on and walked him around some, he went without a fuss;
His head was down, the reins were slack, his feet dragged in the dust.
When they called her name his ears pricked up, she sat up in her seat;
Trotting to the gate there was new life and lightness in his feet.
When they got into the alley he flared his nostrils wide,
Picked up the bit and arched his neck, she latched on for the ride.
She let him go and as they went the years melted away,
And he was once again the barrel horse he'd been in younger days.
With eyes on fire and muscles bunched, raw power in his stride,
Blazing speed and energy wrapped up in this horse's hide.
He had chased the cans from old Cheyenne to the Calgary Stampede,
From Amarillo to Salinas, he had lived the game horse creed:
"Run to live, live to run," it was printed in his genes,
From nose to tail his heart pumped real blue blood through his veins.
Coming through the pattern they touched the last can some;
It was still up on its edge when they were halfway home.
When she asked him for a little more, he gave her all he had;
The barrel stood, the run was good, and the time was not too bad.
When she pulls the saddle he's an old horse once again,
But while he's running barrels, he's all he's ever been.
So here's to that old gamer -- may our golden years like his
Be filled with golden moments and glorious memories,
Of races run and races won, of places that we've been,
Of friends we've made along the way and good things we have seen,
And someone who will need us for what we still can do--
May our needs be small, our wants be less, and our troubles be but few. By Tony Schnauzer
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| If Horses Were In High School, What Cliques Would They Be In? |
QUARTER HORSES: Definitely jocks. Strutting around flexing those muscles, showing off their butts...definitely jocks.
THOROUGHBREDS: Preppies. Sometimes athletes, never jocks. Monogrammed blankets, leather halters, Nike eventer shoes, the latest custom trailer and tack. They are "new money" rich.
APPALOOSAS: Could only be the Stoners. They like to trip on acid so they can watch their spots move.
ARABIANS: RAH! RAH! RAH! SIS BOOM BAH! GOOOOOOOOOOO TEAM!!!!!!!!!!! (need I say more?)
SHETLAND PONIES: Frightening, spiky hairdos, snotty attitudes and any color of the rainbow... gotta be PUNKS. Some even sport tattoos.
FRIESIANS: Big, buff and always in black, they are the biker clique. Cigs hanging out of the corners of their mouths, dangerous glint in their eyes, daring anyone to cross their path.
MORGANS: They're the nerdy teacher's pets, running around doing everything from yearbook to decorating the gym and ratting out the bikers, stoners and jocks. They have perpetual wedgies.
DRAFTS (all breeds): No real clique, they're just the big guys that sit in the back of the room and fart a lot (and then laugh). Who's going to stop them?
ICELANDICS & PASO FINOS: They're the little squirely geeks who flit around a dance trying to fit in and fail miserably. The kind who wear jeans from Sears (or would that be a ripoff WeathaBeetas?)
AHKLE TEKL: (Akle Takl? Ackle Tackle......! Akhal Teke!!) Foreign Exchange students. And no one can spell their names either.
HACKNEY PONIES: A breed this manic would have to be a band geek. Marching along with their knees held high... even when they go to the bathroom.
WARMBLOODS: Old money Preppies, as opposed to the TB's who are new money Preppies. All their tack is imported from Europe, they drink Perrier water and eat only organically grown feed. They look down on everyone and talk amongst themselves about summer in Paris and Skiing in Gstad and wasn't it dreadful how provincial Spruce Meadows has become?
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| Thanks to Silverado for all the pics on my site, for more info and photos contact GPDL |
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