My Soapbox for Equestrian Writings
My TB, Freedom, is a great horse in many ways. But one of his major “holes” is that he is very difficult to load on a trailer alone. He’s resistant to loading even a the best of times. It’s funny because he’s not scared of the trailer. He plants his feet on the loading ramp […]
Read MoreSo said Jockey Kent Desormeaux after Big Brown’s disappointing run in the Belmont stakes yesterday. It’s been 30 years since a horse won racing’s Triple Crown — the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. But it wasn’t always so. In the 1970s, there were three Triple Crown Winners! In 1978, Affirmed stuck a nose […]
Read MoreHow much do you know about horses? Test your knowledge (and maybe learn a thing or two) by taking a series of quizzes at Shadowood Horse Quizzes. These entertaining multiple choice quizzes raise points that all of us should be able to answer. For example, What is an adult horse’s normal temperature? 98.4-100ºF (36.9-37.8ºC) 99-100.5ºF […]
Read MoreWhen I was thinking about yesterday’s post — Are Horse People Crazy? — it occurred to me that horse people definitely have a unique sense of humor. I culled these “you know you’re a horse person” statements from several horse humor web sites and have posted the ones that rang particularly true to my experience […]
Read MoreI was at lunch last week with some of my friends from my Masters Swim Team. I was trying to explain to them why I’d missed the last six weeks of practice: spring fox hunting had taken up most of my free time and a pulled lat muscle (from a fall) had made the thought […]
Read MoreI came across this photo recently that shows the meeting between the world’s largest horse, Radar, and the smallest horse, Thumbelina. Why they have a child holding a horse that could crush him under a single hoof is beyond me. Radar, who is a Belgian Draft Horse, is 19.3 1/2 hands tall (6′ 7.5″) and […]
Read MoreWhen I was at the library last week I found, in the library sale pile, a stack of hard cover Dick Francis mysteries for a buck a piece. I snapped them up and have been happily rereading them. I’m an avid mystery reader and if the books have an equine sub-plot, so much the better! […]
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