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The outdoor arena. It looked safe enough. The sand was soft and deep. What could go wrong?

But then, I was riding the 4 YEAR OLD. The very tall (15 hh for pete's sake!), very bendy, very agile, 4 YEAR OLD. The one that tossed me last fall and sent me to the ER. She's very mellow, very sweet, and actually very slow right now (a bit porky from the winter...), but that's not what's in my head. In my head, is the fresh memory of being fine one second, and the next hitting very hard

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Let me tell you about my best friend.....

Gorgeous, refined, graceful and elegant don't even come close to describing her amazing beauty (so I humbly believe :))

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Why is this the most beautiful picture EVER?!

Because this horse is TROTTING!

If you read my last post, I talked about the long road my horse, Zoey, and I have been on since she rotated her coffin bones last summer. She's made slow progress, but slight progress. We tried a… Continue

My 4 yr old mare, Hula Mayya, is only my 2nd 'new' horse. And she's teaching me how much I don't know about riding :).

My 1st horse, Zoey, taught me many things, none I was too eager to find out really, but she was generous enough to offer me many training opportunities. My first year with her, I learned how to keep a horse from bolting out of the arena (lots of leg, a well timed crop, and stay agile enough to duck under a door frame when she dives out into the aisle). I also learned how to sta… Continue

Why does this horse look so sad?

My 14 yr old horse Zoey, the prettiest, sweetest BEST horse in the world has had a rough year. Diagnosed with COPD (Heaves) in the early spring, then she got hit with a case of laminitis in April. She was improving from that, then one thing led to another, and she took a dive f… Continue