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ALSO PAY FOR ADOPTIONS AND PURCHASES THIS WAY!!
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Congrats to our President for the nomination and eventual induction to the
ROTC Hall of Fame at West Virginia State University, nominated by the former VP
of the University, the induction will take place at the Embassy Suites in
Charleston, WV October 14, 2010. A former military school, rich in a history of
national defense has only inducted just over 100 military retirees to its Hall
of Fame, many of them general officers. Congratulations on this huge honor.
Stay up with our President/Executive Director, all the
directors, volunteers and riders. All the CSS/SWAP supporters and adopters are
having a big time sharing stories, pictures, lots of good stuff about their
horses. Our President is at her max friends so she is full but we are going to
set up a fan based page so everyone can be added. So sorry to the 200 + people
who have asked for a friendship.... we'll get our fan page up soon.
Benefit Wines is a unique online retail wine shop that partners with
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supporting their favorite cause. Cheers!
Raise $1000. for Second Wind
Adoption Program and have a 1 in 70 chance at a 15 carat Ruby/Diamond
Ring! ... mail donations to Rt. 2 Box 24A Jockey Camp Road, West Union,
WV 26456
The Wish List of Our Needs:
More than anything we need a large donation to help us pay off our farm, we just
owe 70k. With a farm paid for, we will never worry about the program and schools
closing.
We are looking for 2 to 3 people to do work in exchange for a place to live.
1. New or lightly
used truck and 3 to 6 horse trailer, our equipment has seen its better
days, we've been using both for nearly 14 years to pick up horses and move them
to their new homes.
2. A Farm in any
location for low cost long term lease or donation to expand our program
to develop a retirement farm for our now aging horses returned to us from
adopters who could not retire our horses. Our highest priority locations
initially are Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
or Delaware.
3. New or Lightly
Used Farm utility vehicle (like a john deere gator), farm tractor,
& manure spreader
4. Tack and large
horse items donated... like carts/buggies, racing bikes, jog carts,
harnesses, saddles, horse trailers, blankets/rugs to use or sell on SWAP
Shopping. Supplies to use around the barn or office.
5. A bulk feed bin
that will hold anywhere from 6 tons to 9 tons of grain donated or at low cost or
even a break on the cost of purchase and instillation.
6. A volunteer or low cost
employee who can help us fix our
database that lists all adopters, donors, supporters and horses/dogs/cats
in the program.
7. Some sort of a cloth
facility like Cover-all or Farm-Tek
building to increase our abilities to be able to take more horses and
have an indoor area to work and train horses in winter, donated, grant or
partially donated. anywhere from 50 x 200 to 72 x 300.
8.
Monthly Sponsors for our light
use, elderly or retirement/sanctuary horses/dogs who's possibilities for
adoption are very low, ie. Orphy, Jelly Bean, Dixie, Allie, Kochese, Darlin, Mr.
Darcey, JoJo, Freckles, Lucy, Bandit, Max, etc.
9. Volunteers
to commit to doing one fund raiser for SWAP horses at your location during 2010,
it can be a golf tournament, a bake sale, book sale, lemonade stand, car wash,
setting up an information stand at a horse show. This is a great way to kids to
get involved in helping horses.
10 Anyone interested in
free high quality top soil
(manure already composted) and manure for gardens, you can pick up for free by
the truck load at our WV location (bring a loader). If you are a gardener and
only need a small amount, pick up in a truck or we'll be selling it by the feed
bag full at $2.00 a bag (in a bag that is usually used for 100 lbs of feed).
This is beautiful clean top soil. This offer will only last so long because we
will be leveling the manure pile this August when its dry enough to get a dozer
in there.
11. Someone to do
dozer work on the farm, level arena/round pen, do terracing on the hill
sides to keep water out of the barns and level the top soil and manure pile to
increase the level of that land in that bottom so we can put our methane
digester in and indoor arena. Volunteer or at a reduced cost.
Reporting Neglect:
Please, if you see neglect (ribs and hip bones showing or no
food available), its critical to call the sheriff of the county where the
horse/animal is located. Have the address where the horse is located or
directions to the farm, pictures and the owners name (if possible). If the
sheriff does nothing email our cruelty case workers Tom and Ruby Fleming at
tomfleming64@cebridge.net or email
PETA's cruelty case workers Stephanie or Tori at
sbell@peta.org,
or
ToriP@peta.org Remember horses can not speak for themselves so
we must speak for them!! All reports are kept anonymous.
Getting Help for Your Horses/animals if you can not care for
them:
If you can not feed your animals, whether they are horses or
other animals, if you are adopters, call SWAP HQ immediately, if not, call your
local horse rescue and plead for help, if they are full then call your animal
control officer or sheriff to release ownership of your animals so they can get
them help Before they are starved to death, do not wait until they are starved,
its critical to get help early. Contact us if you do not know what to do. call
304-873-3532 or email
secondwindadopt@aol.com. Many counties have pet
pantries so you can get feed when times are tough.
If things are getting tight with costs, go to a less expensive
grain like a simple stock pellet supplemented with corn, according to Ohio State
Corn is the leading horse feed in the US according to their research, many large
equine schools and large farms feed these all natural feeds because of what they
get for the price, a lot of negative stuff has been written about corn but no
one can support it with actual proof and research. We feed a simple all stock
pellet from southern states and we supplement with cracked corn for those who
need more calories, here is the link:
- http://ohioline.osu.edu/b
- 762/b762_7.htm
TOP TEN WAYS YOU CAN HELP PROTECT HORSES
(ASPCA and SWAP Suggestions)
1. BE THEIR VOICE - your vote is your
greatest weapon against injustice, so register and actively support horse
protection and preservation legislation.
2. LEAD BY EXAMPLE - Walk the talk. Don't support or attend cruel
horse activities such as Tennessee Walker events using "soring" techniques -
painful techniques to make the horse walk a certain way, or events that use
drugs to make horses achieve results. High-diving horse acts are cruel, as are
rodeo events that don't promote respect for animals and their health.
3. BE AN INFORMED CONSUMER - products made from horses like Premarin
(pregnant mare urine pills for estrogen replacement), are created through
horses' suffering. Your spending dollar is a weapon.
4. SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE - inform people what happens to horses after
their short careers are over (slaughter plant bound), or where Premarin comes
from, talk to them about over breeding, the hazards of over using young horses
or not training a horse. Engage them in discussion.
5. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL HORSE RESCUE OR SANCTUARY - these organizations
make life better for horses.
6. VOLUNTEER - your gift of time is valuable to horse groups and if
you have special talents, so much the better.
7. REPORT CRUELTY - if you witness abuse or neglect, report it to
local animal control or your county sheriff. Someone cruel to animals is cruel
to humans, too.
8. PROTECT THE AMERICAN WILD HORSE - mustangs have a special place in
our history and you can support federal and local legislation by writing emails
and letters to your government reps.
9. KEEP YOUR HORSE SAFE AND HEALTHY - if you own a horse, maintain
its health with regular hoof, medical and dental check-ups. Make sure they are
companioned as horses suffer living alone - even a goat makes a good companion.
Feed what the horse needs, if you are seeing ribs and hip bones, the horse is
not getting enough, if you can't afford to buy more feed, then give the horse to
someone who can, just be sure to check the person out and make sure they are not
selling the horse to slaughter or just going to turn out and sell the horse to
anyone that has the money. .
10. PLAN AHEAD FOR YOUR HORSE'S CARE - your health and finances
change so what happens to your horse of you can't care for it anymore? Research
your options, including a pet trust. Horses live into their mid 20s and early
30s now - that's a lifetime of commitment.
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Preparing for a Cold Winter:
HAY: Get
your hay now before the prices become outrageous, get enough for the winter
(good planning is 2 bales for every 3 days for one horse or 10 bales per month
per horse, so to make it until the middle of June (first cutting), you're
looking at 90 bales per horse at the very least (from September to June). If you
have good thick grass that has been mowed and fertilized then depending on where
you live in the US you might just need 60 to 70 bales. For good grazing its
recommended that you have 3 to 5 acres of mowed, seeded, fertilized grass per
horse. Remember Grass is dead in WV from Oct/Nov until about April and every
state has some months where the grass does not give the horses their calories or
nutrients it needs to sustain life (USDA has details of that for each state).
They may be grazing in the winter but they are not getting anything from the
grass to survive. I know most know that but I say it because we had an adopter
last year in WV that thought if they were eating grass that was all they needed
and she nearly killed 2 horses.
GRAIN:
Remember on average horses need 1 lb of concentrated feed (grain) for every 100
lbs of body weight, so on average horses need about 10 lbs of grain a day, more
when its very cold or if they are living outside in a run because much of their
calories go to keeping them warm. Some horses need more so its critical to
watch to make sure their ribs and hip bones are staying meaty and covered. If
you see ribs, the horse is too thin and needs more calories, not supplements
but more calories.. Easy keepers may be round but it does not mean they are
healthy, most easy keepers need a multi vitamin to stay healthy.
WATER:
One of the most critical things needed in winter is clean fresh water all the
time, anywhere from 5 to 20 gallons per day per horse and everyone knows what a
pain that is when there is ice and snow on the ground but its critical to
preventing colic. Get your electric heaters, defrosters now, heated buckets,
what ever it takes to make sure they have good water in front of them all the
time and at least 10 gallons (2 flat backed buckets at the very least). Here we
keep 100 gallons troughs in the stalls since we have big stalls, its much easier
than frozen buckets in winter, all we do is break the ice and remove it most
days and put a heater in them on really cold days. We use a sump pump to empty
water and scrub troughs each week which keeps water fresh and clean.
SHELTER:
Domestic horses need shelter, they are not wild and can not survive outside
without shelter or some kind of heavy waterproof rug to keep them warm during
snow/ice and freezing temperatures but the best is a closed in shelter that is
free from drafts (meaning its closed on all 4 sides with some sort of
ventilation). Wild horses first of all don't live very long, living outside in
the elements is very hard on them, secondly wild horses move in cold
temperatures to keepselves warm and they often times move over thousands of
acres to keep warm or to find cover or water. No domestic horse can not do that
on 5, 20 or even 100 acres. Just because your horse has learned to survive in
bad weather does not mean its good for them, they need shelter in bad weather.
CARE:
Its important to make kids take care of their horses but they must have adult
supervision on a daily basis to make sure horses are getting what they need.
Trust me, I usually have 30 year olds working in our barn and I still have to be
there daily to make sure things are done, that they have clean water, especially
when its cold because our young helpers want to get out of the weather and then
the horses are left at risk for colic. Every day check your child's work, do not
leave your horses care to a child (completely).
The Woman I will Be
- I shall wear diamonds and a wide brimmed
straw hat with ribbons and flowers on it
- And I shall spend my social security on
white wine and carrots
- And sit in the alley of my barn and listen
to my horses breathe.
- I will sneak out in the middle of a
summer's night And ride the dappled mare across the moonstruck meadow, if
my old bones will allow. and when people come to call, I will smile and
nod, As I walk them past the gardens to the barn And show, instead, the
flowers growing there
- In stalls fresh-lined with straw. I will
shovel and sweat and wear hay in my hair as if it were a jewel. And I will
be an embarrassment of all who look down on me Who have not yet found the
peace in being free To love a horse as a friend, a friend who waits at
midnight hour
- With muzzle and nicker and patient eyes For
the Woman I will be when I am old.
The perfect analogies for why we
have the life school tied into SWAP and animal welfare work:
"Everyone thought we took this
broken down horse and saved him but really he saved us"
Jockey Red Pollard from the
movie Seabiscuit
I rescued a
human today
Her eyes met mine as she
walked down the corridor peering apprehensively into the kennels. I felt her
need instantly and knew I had to help her. I wagged my tail, not too
exuberantly, so she wouldn't be afraid.
As she stopped at my kennel
I blocked her view from a little accident I had in the back of my cage. I didn't
want her to know that I hadn't been walked today. Sometimes the shelter keepers
get too busy and I didn't want her to think poorly of them.
As she read my kennel card
I hoped that she wouldn't feel sad about my past. I only have the future to look
forward to and want to make a difference in someone's life.
She got down on her knees
and made little kissy sounds at me.
I shoved my shoulder and side of my head up against the bars to comfort her.
Gentle fingertips caressed
my neck; she was desperate for companionship. A tear fell down her cheek and I
raised my paw to assure her that all would be well.
Soon my kennel door opened
and her smile was so bright that I instantly jumped into her arms. I would
promise to keep her safe. I would promise to always be by her side. I would
promise to do everything I could to see that radiant smile and sparkle in her
eyes.
I was so fortunate that she
came down my corridor.
So many more are out there who haven't walked the corridors.
So many more to be saved. At least I could save one.
I rescued a human today.
Baggage
by Evelyn Colbath
Now that I'm
home, bathed, settled and fed,
All nicely tucked into my warm new bed,
I would like to open my baggage,
Lest I forget
There is so much to carry -
So much to forget.
Hmm, Yes, here
it is, right on the top
Let's unpack Loneliness, Heartache and Loss,
And there by my halter hides Fear & Shame
As I look on these things I have tried so hard to leave-
I still have to unpack my baggage called Pain.
I loved them,
the others, the ones who left me,
But I wasn't good enough - for they didn't want me.
Will you add to my baggage?
Will you help me unpack?
Or will you just look at my things
And take me right back?
Do you have the
time to help me unpack?
To put away my baggage,
To never re-pack?
I pray that you do - I'm so tired you see,
But I do come with baggage -
Will you still want me?
A young boy was walking along the beach
- as high tide came in.
- With every crash of the waves
- he noticed that dozens of seahorses were
being cast onto the beach,
- where they lay gasping and squirming.
- Hurriedly, he ran to each seahorse he could
find
- and gently tossed them back into the surf.
- A man watching all this approached the boy
and said;
- "Son, what you are doing won't make a
difference",
- to which the boy replied,
"To
that seahorse .
. . it will".
Some folks said they missed my great goals
list for 2010, so here it is back again
1. Spend an hour a day with your horses, not just
feeding, training and turning out, but real quality time doing something that is
enjoyable for the both of you. Grooming or hand walking is a great way to bond
with your horse and good for both you and the horse.
2. Get your loved ones more involved in your
horses. Divorce is the biggest reason we see horses coming back to us. Don't
just share the work, share the fun too and find something they really enjoy
doing with horses.
3. Learn a new discipline, go to a clinic, a
horse show, or equine affaire. Come to one of our clinics or watch a training
video. If you are an adopter you can check out books and video's from SWAP's
Library for just shipping costs. Take a lesson at least once a month or Bring
your adoption horse here and we will help you. The better you are, the more fun
you will have.
4. Make a plan for your horse after you are gone
or if you have a major injury, let your Will Executor know your plans. Make a
plan for emergencies or financial bumps along the way for your horse. Have a
plan if you or your horse gets injured, even for the tough times of year like
winter (or summer down south and for a drought winter when hay prices
skyrocket). Ask friends, family and neighbors to be part of your plan, most
people that don't have horses or a farm love the idea of getting away and
helping. And people can not resist someone when they are asking for help for the
welfare of an innocent animal.
5. Get yourself healthy and in better shape to
prevent injury, to live a long life and to more enjoy your horses. Eat 1-1-1
(one ounce of dark chocolate, one ounce of fresh walnuts, one glass of red wine
daily) and 2-2-2 (2 servings of fresh vegis, 2 of fresh fruit and get 2 sources
of fat free calcium). Drink 100 ounces of spring water a day, get a whole house
water filter. Change over to Sea-salt. Take one teaspoon of apple cider vinegar
every morning to keep your body alkaline (cancer and disease can not grow in an
alkaline body). Eat more fish and chicken and less red meat. Get a good air
cleaner and do daily deep breathing exercises, get outside in the fresh air and
sunshine for at least 1/2 hour every day. Get away from high fat food, processed
foods, fast food, can or boxed food, sugar or artificial sweeteners, soda and
don't eat anything if you can't read all the ingredients and know exactly what
is in it. Clean all vegis and fruits thoroughly, buy organic, buy ocean caught
fish, not farm raised, buy fresh meat and raw milk, not packed or processed. Eat
only natural carbs (potatoes, rice, oats) bake/broil or steam everything. Get 8
hours of sleep, reduce stress/risk (reduce commuting by car pooling, tight
schedules, cell phone use in the car, watch or read the news only once a day or
better yet once a week. Do one hour of walking, yoga or weight training every
day and it will make you strong, lean, you'll look great and get wonderful
complements from friends, coworkers and loved ones and the horse work will be
easier and more enjoyable.
6. Stay clear of negative people and those very
negative chat rooms and bulletin boards, they seem innocent but every time you
go to them you lose a bit of your positive self, they are truly emotional
vampires that will leave only a shell of a person. They are not based on the
truth, they are based on harassment, complaining, whining and dishonesty. We all
become tomorrow what we are around today, every person we come in contact with
defines who we are tomorrow so be careful who you choose for friends, even the
websites you go to as each of them affect who you are tomorrow. Do you want to
be a bitter, miserable, complaining person or do you want to be happy, inspired
and honorable, all that is affected by the decisions you make today. Stay away
from Toxic people and Toxic websites/forums that are negative or that spend all
their time talking bad about people and their horses. What you are around today
and what you are doing today is what you will be tomorrow. Stop Complaining and
be Thankful for what you have. If you become a target of harassment or anyone
saying anything negative about you, if you are doing only good, positive things
and not hurting anyone then ignore them, its all based on jealousy and a sick
sort of wish to be like you. They have the problem, not you.
7. Read at least one book on training your horse
and one on care each year, if for nothing else but just inspiration. SWAP has a
great library of books/videos that adopters can check out for just the cost of
mailing it.
Click
here to see our Library
8. Get carrots/apples every time you go to the
store, your horses will love you for it and always come running when you call.
Don't feed candy or anything sweeter. Carrots are sweet enough. Get rid of the
sweet feeds and you'll get rid of the hot horse once and for all.
9. Realize that if you are having a problem with
your horse, more likely than not, the problem is you. Learn more, practice more,
ask in a different way, be patient, change their environment or daily schedule
to better suit them. Taking better care of a horse always brings out the best in
that horse. Good feed/hay, time to rest in a quiet stall out of the elements,
lots of fresh water, time to be with you and time to just be a horse, time with
their buddies, farrier and vet care always done is a good start. The biggest
part of this relationship puzzle is you, not the horse. If you are struggling,
then you need to learn more and get better.
10. Ride at least once a week, regardless of
weather. Use this time as your down time for healing, your therapy, your time to
relieve stress and the pressures of daily life. Even if you don't ride, go sit
and read a book in the pasture with the horses or sit in the barn and listen to
them munch on dinner, away from the crowd and noise of your day. Enjoy the peace
and quiet, enjoy hearing happy horses eating dinner or grass in the pasture.
11. Spend time leisurely grooming your horse once
a week. Rubber curries are shine makers. You will have a beautiful horse and a
very loyal friend who will do anything for you.
12. Come and spend a week at SWAP HQ,
volunteering and focusing on helping a horse and giving will change your life
plus it will be the best vacation you ever had. Help an animal in need, whether
fostering, being one of our state reps that goes out to check on our horses in
their homes or helps us approve adopters in their area. Find horses in need and
help us find them homes. Buy a horse at a slaughter auction, get it fat and
trained and we'll help you place it into a good home. Foster and volunteer for
your local small animal adoption program. I promise, the good things you do will
come back to you a hundred times over. Every person has a talent they can offer
and if you help one horse or one dog or cat find a good home, you have changed
their life forever.
13. Know that every goal is obtainable and it
starts with a single step. Take that first step today!! No matter what it is or
how big, YOU CAN DO IT!! Every goal that is written down will come true
(really!). Every famous person, every great or notable scientist, author,
trainer/rider, parent or friend started out as just a thought, just a goal.
Remember to take one step today to reach your goals.
14. Start every day with thinking about, what is
the most important thing I can do today to change my life and make it better. Do
that one thing and in 30 days your life will be totally different. Can you
imagine what your life would be like if you did that for 60, 90 or even 365 days
a year. The opportunities are endless.
15. Want to keep your horse sound for life? (That
should be every horse owners number one goal) do a long slow warm up (cold
muscle is easy to injure, a warm one is nearly impossible to injure). The very
best cool down is hand walking your horse for 1 hour after every work out. Yes,
get off the horse and walk with it. Its great exercise for you and a good time
for you to bond. Stop riding your horse during cool downs and stop using a hot
walker, do something good for you and the horse, hand walking. Its also the best
rehab for over work and injuries, the only thing better is hydro therapy and
swimming your horse. Allow soft tissue and hard tissue to become more
conditioned before going into any training program... that means 3 months of at
least 3 days a week for soft tissues and 10 months of work for bones to become
strong enough to jump or do any strenuous training program. Don't start any
upper level work, jumping or extensive training until the horse is fit and at
least between age 4 and 6 and has been conditioned for at least 10 months
(especially if the horse has never been jumped/worked or not been jumped or
worked in the last year).
16. Appreciate what you have and be thankful.
Instead of looking at what you don't have, look at what you do. Thank those
people who have helped you and supported you. The more you give, the more that
will come back to you. When you give something away or give something to
someone/something in need, you make space in your life for something good to
come to you. We are all very blessed, if we just take a moment to look around
and enjoy those things.
17. Get used to using favorite mantra's and
visualizations every day, simple ones that are easy to remember, like 'I can do
this, I will do this', 'this isn't going to get the best of me' or even, 'I
deserve the best' or 'the gift of love, caring, and support always comes back'
and take two minutes every morning as you wake and at night as you go to sleep
to visualize the life you want, the you you want to be, Our thoughts become
things, what you see is what you get, if you expect the best, the best will
happen, change your self-talk from negative to positive and I promise your life
will change for the better..
18. Each person is put on this earth for a
reason, each of us has a mission. What is yours? Seek and you shall find,
finding is a journey ... in the journey and the search you'll find your life
purpose. If you died in your sleep tonight is there something you haven't done
that you need to do or want to do? Someone you need to mend fences with, burnt
bridges to fix? People you need to tell them how much you love them? Have you
fulfilled your purpose in your life? Ask yourself, Why am I here? How can I make
this better? Who do I want to be? Who am I suppose to be? What reason was I put
on this earth? What is my purpose?
19. Be an inspiration to your family, co workers
and friends. We all fall on our face, we all make mistakes, we all get
discouraged, most times we all get up and try again.... sometimes we need a
nudge. Instead of being negative or doing negative things, be their inspiration.
You do believe they can do it, so why not tell them. If their self talk is
negative, then you be their positive self talk.... eventually they will start to
say it and believe it too. Life is self fulfilling, failure feeds on itself or
causes more failure, achieving does as well. So if you or your love ones are in
a negative cycle, break the cycle by changing your thoughts, your self talk,
achieve something small to get yourself and your family back into the cycle of
achievement.
20. We all file a flight plan every single day
for our life. Where is your flight going today? Just like a pilot flying, the
winds, the gravitational pull will change your flight and take you off course,
so you must make small corrections along the way to make sure you make your
destination. Have you selected your destination? Have you picked the steps in
your flight plan to get there? Every goal is really that easy, pick the goal and
figure out how to get there. The easiest way to pick your flight path/plan is
find someone who has done it before you, then do what they did. Its all baby
steps you know. Just keep an eye on that destination and keep saying...."here is
my destination, this is where I'm going, this is where I am now, this is how I'm
going to get there.... I will arrive at this time on this day. You can do
it..... its just like getting in your car to go to the store, its just deciding
where you want to go and how to get there, then take that first step. You can do
it!! No matter how big or how outlandish you may think your dream to be... it
is obtainable.
21. Laugh every day and try (as hard as it is
sometimes) to find the positive and the humor in each situation (and have at
least one bite of a truly decadent desert once a week). Life is just too short
to not enjoy it thoroughly.
22. We learn the most and do our best work when
we have fallen on our face, when we are struggling, when we are worried, scared
or frustrated, when we are anguishing over something or troubled by it. It is
then that you have true motivation, when you think clearer. The most brilliant
ideas come to people when they feel lost, frustrated, or at the bottom, helpless
or hopeless. Cherish these times because its when you can come up with your best
ideas to your biggest problems and challenges. You see, there is a reason for
the rainy days.
23. You can't make everyone happy, its useless to
try and wasted energy to think you can. 50% of all people will not agree with
you at any given time, don't worry about it and don't let it stop you. 50%
becomes a lot of people when you are in the public eye. As long as you are not
hurting anyone and you are doing the right thing, then go ahead and do it. If
you are wondering what is the right thing to do, its usually the harder thing to
do, the toughest path to take. The easy way out is rarely the right thing to
do. Instead of worrying over what someone thinks of you or says about you, do
something amazing and outstanding to inspire them or at least have them sitting
on the side lines being jealous, secretly saying, "wow, she has guts". One
person with purpose becomes the majority, one way or another.
1. There are at least two people in this world
That you would die for.
2. At least 15 people in this world Love you in some way.
3. The only reason anyone would ever hate you Is because they want to Be just
like you.
4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, Even if they don't Like you.
5. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you Before they go to sleep.
6. You mean the world to someone.
7. You are special and unique.
8. Someone that you don't even know exists, loves you.
9. When you make the biggest mistake ever, Something good comes from it.
10. When you think the world has
Turned its back on you, take another look.
11. Always remember the compliments you received. Forget about the rude remarks.
Always in hope and admiration, Celeita
YOUR BANK ACCOUNT
A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully
dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably combed and
shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home
today. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary.
After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he
smiled sweetly when told his room was ready.
As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a
visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been
hung on his window.
'I love it,' he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just
been presented with a new puppy.
'Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait.'
'That doesn't have anything to do with it,' he replied.
'Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or
not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged .. it's how I arrange my
mind. I already decided to love it. 'It's a decision I make every morning when
I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the
difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of
bed and be thankful for the ones that do.
Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new day and
all the happy memories I've stored away. Just for this time in my life.
Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put in.
So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank
account of memories!
Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank.
I am still depositing.' Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.
Our
lives with horses...
Our lives with horses are rich with feeling. You know this if you've
ever.... choked back tears watching a new foal wobble to his feet for the
First time ...or watched your good horse wobble to his feet after surgery....
or seen the ends of the reins float straight out as a reining horse spins
beneath them . . or chuckled to yourself as you watched a tiny tot on a
patient pony trot through a barrel pattern at a saddle club payday ... or felt
the building tremble as an eight-up hitch of feather-legged giants towed a
hand-carved beer wagon into the arena ... or had your heart stop when you saw
your horse lying motionless in the pasture on a sunny day and waited
breathlessly for an ear to flick ... or cheered at the screen when 'The Man
From Snowy River' slid Dennie down the mountainside, .. or when Seabiscuit
made his final surge to beat War Admiral ... or cruised along the highway and
seen a horse in a pasture and wondered what he's like to ride or pictured him
as a prospect ... or sucked in your breath as a horse and rider approached a
six-foot wall ... or sworn a solemn oath to your horse that together you would
triumph ... or flipped through the TV channels and stopped when you saw a
horse even when it was a commercial ... or laughed aloud when you rubbed your
horse's face and he rubbed back ... or gotten chills hearing Dave Johnson's
'and DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME!' (or 'Run for the Roses' circa 1980 ish?)
... or stood in awe at your horse in morning play as he sprinted around the
pasture, then stopped, head erect, and snorted defiance at the rest of the
world
... or been thankful to see wild horses grazing casually at the foot of a hill
... or felt calmed by the sleekness of a silky
haircoat beneath your hand ... or felt your jaw drop as you watched a Lipazzan
perform a capriole ... or if you've ever seen someone in the grocery store
wearing a certain kind of hat, or boots, or buckle, or have a certain cut and
length to their jeans, and felt some remote kind of connection ... or felt
warmed by a soft nicker greeting as you entered the barn ... or slid your hand
under your horse's blanket to straighten it out, only to pause in the glowing
feeling that you get when you touch the
warmth of his coat... or riding on a trail with your horse, thinking how that
trail over there looks nice and almost without asking, your horse has sensed
your slightest movement in the saddle and he's now taking you there. ... or
pulled up to your barn where you board and only your horse greets you with a
welcoming hello from the sound of your car or your voice.
HEROES AND HORSES
SOME NOTABLE HEROES AND THEIR HORSES ARE MENTIONED AND WE KNOW YOUR HORSE IS
YOUR HERO AND VICE VERSA.
1. Kanthaka - Buddha's horse, the one he used when he was still Siddhartha
the prince, to escape from his father's palace and begin his journey toward
enlightenment. Kanthaka's hooves made no sounds as they fled together and he
is often depicted being lifted on his four feet by benign spirits.
2. Pegasus - the mythical winged horse parented by Neptune and Medusa and
ridden by Bellerophon to rid the world of Chimera, the monster. Athena, the
Greek goddess of wisdom, was able to capture and train Pegasus when he allowed
her to place her golden bit in his mouth.
3. Phosphorus (Light Bearer) - the great Roman racehorse immortalized by the
4th century Roman poet Ausonius (at the emperor's request) in a beautiful
eulogy: Fly with haste to join the wing-footed horses of Elysium; may
Pegasus gallop on your right and Arion as your left-wheeler, and let Castor
find a fourth horse for the team.
4. Babieca - famed white gelding of El Cid, Rodrigo Diaz of Bivar, the
Spanish hero who united Christians and Muslims against a Moorish onslaught
from Africa. Babieca lived to be 30 years old and carried El Cid into all his
battles. Babieca means "crazy" as Rodrigo made a crazy choice since the colt
was the runt of the herd.
5. Bucephalus (Ox-head) - beloved horse of Alexander the Great who bore the
Macedonian hero on his back from Greece to India. Odds against a horse living
past 20 in that era were great, but Bucephalus, in his 20s, endured until he
fell in battle in India.
6. Sleipnir - the eight-legged war horse of Odin, the Norse god, was able to
fly without wings and shape-shift.
7. Balios and Xanthos - a grey and bay, both sired by Zephyros, the West
Wind, who together pulled Achilles' chariot.
8. Vivasat - a Hindu sun-god who often took the form of a stallion.
9. Al Burak - Mohammed's horse, on whose back he ascended to heaven, was
brought to him by the archangel Gabriel
10. Chiron - the centaur who taught Achilles, Jason and the first physician,
Ascelpius, all he knew.
11. Rakhsh - blue-eyed and dappled red horse of the legendary Persian
warrior, Rustam. Rakhsh was highly intelligent and saved his sleeping master
from a lion's attack, killing the predator.
There are many more famous mythical and real horses and we will be adding to
our list. Can you help us add to this list?. thank you Harmony Horse Works.
The question is not: "do you support horse
slaughter."
The question is: "do you support the cruel, terrifying
transport for days without food and water in their journey to death?"
The question is: "do you support the torture and abuse of
the killer chutes, even for crippled horses, pregnant mares, wild horses,
protective mares with foals by their sides?"
The question is: “Do you support the horse slaughter
factories that lie to their consumers about the many chemicals that taint the
horse meat, and call it Organic?
The question is: do you support the breeder who breeds
hundreds of horses just to pick out the good ones and cash in the rest to the
killer buyer?
The question is: Do you support the person who uses the
horse its whole life and when it gets to an old age sends it to slaughter as a
thank you?
The question is: “do you support the slaughter workers who
cheer a horse on that struggles extra hard for its life?
The question is: Do you support the killer buyer who not
only buys up the strong, fat and healthy horses and leaves the meek weak and
unhealthy for society, but also bids against the good homes and horse rescues?
The question is: “Can you see though the lies of the ones
who stand to loose a buck with the end of horse slaughter?
The question is: Do you support ripping the last of our wild
horses away from their families and peaceful lives to be slaughtered?
The question is: As a nation, can we allow this to continue
and still call ourselves a civilized country?
The question is: "Can you look at the footage of innocent
horses with their eyes gouged out, hooves ripped off, legs broken, beaten by
the workers, faces smashed in from being on the transport trucks, horses
stabbed in their spines, horses conscious for the entire killing process and
do nothing?
That is the question, so what is YOUR answer?
Resolve to make the world a better place for animals
(credit: PETA)
| If you haven't already done so,
have the companion animals who depend on you spayed or neutered. These
simple procedures help protect your furry friends from many types of
cancer and prevent thousands of animals from being born only to end up
abandoned on the streets or dumped at severely crowded animal shelters.
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| If you live with a dog,
pledge to walk him or her every day, even when it's cold outside and you'd
rather hide under a blanket. If you share your home with cats, set
aside some "kitty (or horsey) quality time" every day to play
with, brush, and bond with them. It's sometimes too easy to overlook our
feline friends, but they can get bored and lonely too. |
| If there is a lonely "backyard dog" in your
neighborhood, try befriending his or her
guardian. Start by politely talking to him or her about the dog's needs,
such as companionship, daily portions of fresh food and water, and a
weatherproof doghouse filled with straw. Many lucky dogs have had their
lives changed because someone like you cared enough to intervene.
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| If you're shopping for yourself or buying
holidays gifts for your loved ones, stay
away from fur, wool, leather, and companies that make or sell products
made from the skins of animals. |
NOTE: Crossed Sabers can not fully guarantee the accuracy of every page
on this website which is huge (38,000 files and over 300 pages). We do not
have the personnel or time to keep it up to date and accurate for every
situation as this Stable and all its programs have always been a dynamic
entity, ever changing and improving itself to meet the needs of horses and
horse people. We do try to make sure each page is up to date and accurate but
the best thing to do If you have a question, is email or call us. Additionally
Crossed Sabers can not guarantee anything that anyone says about us on line,
we have no control over other people and their websites, forums or ads, all we
can tell people is if you do not know the person, their name, address and
their experience, age or history/background/education and location do not
trust what they say. That is true for everything on the internet. Some things
said about us have been grossly inaccurate and did not come from CSS, some
come from past employees we fired for cause (for hurting horses or stealing
from us), people that are pro-slaughter and hate our mission and what we do
for horses enjoy trying to make us look bad, some are horse traders that we've
helped put out of business and some are people we helped put in jail on
neglect cases. Again, if you have questions about us, our services, our
company structure, how we are licensed, how we pay taxes, how we do things or
anything at all, please feel free to contact us, just don't assume that all
you read on another website is accurate because 99% of it is not true,
especially if you read it on a forum, blog or chat room and don't assume that
it came from us, just call 304-873-3532 or email us at
secondwindadopt@aol.com,
or better yet, come and see our operation and you will see how we do things. I
can guarantee it's 1000 times better than what the liars and frauds say who
are jealous of our work.
All programs and services listed on this website, including
SWAP is a part of Crossed Sabers Stable which has been licensed in WV for the
last 13 years. The Mountain State Horse School and Second Wind Adoption
Program, Inc. and Crossed Sabers International Horse School, Inc. was
incorporated on 4 Sep 08 to address the education needs and life challenges of
people and horses.
Buyer and Seller Beware!! Update on the
Robin Hollingsworth of Blacksburg, SC
(she has several alias's and about 10 fake names) fraud case for those
of you who have been asking. The SC prosecutor accepted a plea bargain from
her and dropped the case if she paid the people she ripped off (the people she
took money under false pretenses from when she sold them horses she did not
own), she did that so she was let go but the 3 arrests will stay on her record
and the record of what she did to all those people is still on the books and
will stay there. If she is caught again I'm certain she will go to jail but
people who are cheated by her must stand up and testify.. If more people that
she ripped off would have not chickened out and backed out because of fear
(Quote from them was we are scared of her, she is crazy) she would be in jail
right now but beware, she is still loose and still taking free horses or
companion horses that have things like ringbone and navicular and drugging
them and then selling them as high level jumpers and competition horses on the
internet. Her daughter works with her, Amanda or Mandy, she helps her rip
people off. Beware, I'm getting calls almost every month where Robin has
committed more crimes against people, taking horses, not paying for them,
bouncing checks, buying vehicles and horse trailers and not paying for them.
BEWARE OF THIS WOMAN!! If you want her history or to check a person's name
against our black list (our do not adopt to, do not sell to, do not buy from,
do not hire or even rent to list), then contact us.
BEWARE: Do not buy a horse from anyone you
do not know, ESPECIALLY ON THE INTERNET, unless they have websites like ours,
their names and addresses listed and they show they have a long long history
on their website and do not buy unless you go to see the horse and have it vet
checked and you have contact with the vet, not the seller or even trainer
telling you what the vet said. DO NOT GIVE YOUR HORSE OR SELL YOUR HORSE
WITHOUT A WRITTEN AGREEMENT AS TO WHAT IS TO HAPPEN WITH THE HORSE, RESELLING,
USE/LIMITATIONS, FACILITIES NEEDED, ETC. It you sell or give away a horse with
no agreement, they could go to slaughter the same day you release them or they
could be sold and misrepresented, living a life of neglect, abuse, over use
and miss use the rest of their lives. We hear stories all the time where a
best friend or neighbor, the nice lady you gave the horse to sent the horse to
slaughter or is neglecting it and there is not a thing the owner can do now
because they no longer own the horse and they made no written agreements
signed by both parties. If you need help doing written agreements, back ground
checks on buyers and sellers, just contact us, that is part of our 'SAFE
SELLING' SERVICES. Your horse's life depends on you being safe and thorough!
BEWARE: People are selling horses on the
internet that don't even exist so beware, the horse industry is full is liars,
cheaters, and thieves, even we have had to deal with them from potential
adopters who were in jail applying to adopt, to employees and former trainers
who totally ripped us off by stealing tack and tools, asking for huge advances
and then leaving after they get them, people who don't even know us or had any
experience with us slandering us on forums, harassing us and our supporters,
interfering with company operations and even adopters who don't think twice
about breaching their contract or forging their vets signature on applications
& annual updates or even selling their adoption horse to programs like ours
and even 501c3's public charities selling horses to slaughter auctions or
being put in jail for neglect and animal cruelty. We are bringing each person
that has wronged our horses to justice one at a time and winning all our cases
but that does not protect the general public from these liars, thieves,
con-artist and cheaters. Your horses life can easily be ruined forever, they
could end up in a fate worse than death so buyer and seller beware, your
horses life depends on you keeping them safe and you being thorough with doing
things like getting references and making sure the people have stable
employment, that they really own the farm they say they do, doing background
checks to check for criminal records. The horse world is full of dishonesty
which ruins it for honest people that really care and always try to do the
right thing, such a shame. Just be very careful and get proof that your horse
is going to a good home, get more than a feeling because we promise you about
50% of the time when it comes to horses, your feeling that its a 'nice' person
or a 'good' person' is wrong. And even when you pick a good home, they can
turn around and sell or give away to a bad home.
HOW TO STAY YOUNG
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and
height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay 'them'
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches and negative people pull
you down. People who like to cause trouble will shorten your life and make you
just like them... miserable.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening,
whatever. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.'
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen.. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who
is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love , whether it's family, pets,
keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable,
improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next
county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER :
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the
moments that take our breath away
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OUR
FAVORITE QUOTES, POEMS & STORIES
"Be the kind of person
you would want as a friend"
Baggage
by Evelyn Colbath
Now that I'm home, bathed, settled and fed,
All nicely tucked into my warm new bed,
I would like to open my baggage,
Lest I forget
There is so much to carry -
So much to forget.
Hmm, Yes, here it is, right on the top -
Let's unpack Loneliness, Heartache and Loss,
And there by my halter hides Fear & Shame
As I look on these things I have tried so hard to leave-
I still have to unpack my baggage called Pain.
I loved them, the others, the ones who left me,
But I wasn't good enough - for they didn't want me.
Will you add to my baggage?
Will you help me unpack?
Or will you just look at my things
And take me right back?
Do you have the time to help me unpack?
To put away my baggage,
To never re-pack?
I pray that you do - I'm so tired you see,
But I do come with baggage -
Will you still want me?
© Evelyn Colbath
Horse
Husband's Lament
My wife, she has a Quarter Horse, with flaxen mane
and tail.
She thinks he is the finest thing that ever jogged the rail.
She calls him Dandy Darling, and if the truth I tell,
That fancy, pampered Quarter Horse has made my life pure
hell.
My wife, she used to cook for me and serve it with
champagne,
Now she'd rather feed that horse and fix his special grain.
She rides him every morning, and grooms him half the night,
The last time that she kissed me, it was just to be polite.
He dresses better than I do, with matching wraps and ties,
My wardrobe's so neglected now that I attract the flies.
One day my wife was shopping, down at the nearby mall,
And fancy pampered Dandy was just standing in his stall.
He looked so smug and sassy, that I couldn't help but grin,
So I decide I'd saddle that fat sucker, And take him for a
spin.
I've wondered since if cues I gave, he might've
misconstrued,
For when I climbed aboard that horse, he rightly came
unglued.
He bucked and spun, and snorted fire,
And threw me through a fence,
I saw big stars, and there are teeth that I ain't never seen
since.
My wife came home and saw me, just lying in the dirt,
She rushed up to her horse and asked him, "Sweetheart are
you hurt?"
He'd scratched his nose a little bit -- the memory galls me
yet,
She left me lying in the mud, and ran to call the vet!
-Author Unknown
Hug Your Horse
When your day seems out of balance and so
many things go wrong,
when people fight around you and the day
drags on so long,
when parents act like children, in-laws make
you think "Divorce",
go out in your pasture... wrap your arms
around your horse.
His gentle breath enfolds you and he watches
with those eyes.
He may not have a PhD, but he is oh, so wise!
His head rests on your shoulder. You embrace
him oh so tight.
He puts your world in balance, and makes it
seem all right.
Your tears will soon stop flowing. The
tension is now eased.
The garbage has been lifted, and you're quiet
and at peace.
So when you need the balance from
circumstances in your day,
the best therapy that you can seek is out
there eating hay!!
~Mary Ann Miller~
- The
Horses' Prayer
- Feed me,
give me water, and care for me, and when the day's
- work is
done, give me shelter, a clean bed and a wide stall.
- Talk to
me. Your voice often substitutes for the reins for me.
- Be good to
me and I will serve you cheerfully and love you.
- Don't jerk
the reins and don't raise the whip.
- Don't beat
or kick me when I don't understand you,
- but rather
give me time to understand you.
- Don't
consider it disobedience if I don't follow your commands.
- Perhaps
there is a problem with my saddle and bridle or hooves.
- Check my
teeth if I don't eat, maybe I have a toothache.
- You know
how that hurts.
- Don't
halter me too short and don't dock my
- tail...
it's my only weapon against flies and mosquitoes.
- And at the
end, dear master, when I am no longer any use to you,
- don't let
me go hungry or freeze and don't sell me.
- Don't give
me a master who slowly tortures me to death and lets me
starve,
- but rather
be merciful and take care of me,
- by letting
me run and enjoy a warm pasture.
- Let me
request this of you and please don't regard it as
disrespectful
- if I ask
it in the name of Him who was born in a stable like me.
Amen
Things you learn from living with 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 min.
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 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 bush is more beneficial than 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.
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 by 1,000 pounds
16. I'd rather have a horse with a perfect mind than a perfect head.
17. Eight hours is too long to be in the saddle!
18. 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.
19. When someone asks you if you like their horse,
always say yes
20. The happiest people I know own horses, dogs, cats
and at least one
deranged goat. (who'd have thought?)
21. If you're looking for the perfect horse you will never own one.
22. Owning a horse can either make a marriage or break it.
23. I'd rather lose my lipstick than my curb chain.
24. You shouldn't talk about your first place ribbon to someone that came in
second.
25. If someone says that horse has a little buck, it has a BIG buck.
26. If we need rain, schedule a show.
27. I've never warmed up to someone that didn't want to walk down to the
stables.
28. A clean stable and a sparkling horse are among life's great pleasures.
29. Even given away horses can be too expensive. Especially give away horses.
30. No matter how badly behaved you are, your horse always gives you a second
chance.
31. A more expensive horse doesn't make a better one.
32. I can't stand to have an empty stable.
33. 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!'
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from
any direction.
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes...
Buddha
"Now, I am become Death, the
destroyer of worlds." J. Robert Oppenheimer from the Bhagavad-Gita
slow horses and fast women have
ruined many a good horseman...
i'd rather have a bottle in front of
me than a frontal lobotomy...ken kesey
a horse will run faster and race
harder with proper care, than with a sharp lash from a whip...from my
acceptance speech for Debacle being named horse of the year
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you
know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you
have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to
provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or
spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for
the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or
at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the
relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is
that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The
prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to
share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you
laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give
you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a
season!
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build
upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept
the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all
other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind
but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for being a part of my life, whether you were a reason, a season
or a lifetime!
Blessing of the Horses
P:
O God our Father, source of all grace and holiness, hear
the devout prayers of your Church. Grant that what we ask
for in faith we may obtain. You tested your saint, Anthony
the hermit, in many temptations and supported him through
his friends the animals. In your mercy bless
d
these horses
that they will be sound in body and grant that all who work
in this place and all who enjoy the fruits of their labors may
benefit from Saint Anthony’s intercession and be preserved
from all evil. Through Christ our Lord.
C:
Amen.
Blessing of the Salt and Feed
P:
Lord God, Creator and preserver of all things, hear we
beseech you the prayers of those who believe in you. Pour
out your blessing
d
upon this salt, feed, and
fodder; fill it
with the benefits of your power; grant that these animals
which you have graciously provided for our joy may be
freed of all diseases and protected from the attacks of the
evil one when they eat the bounty of the harvest. We ask this
in the name of Jesus the Lord.
C:
Amen.
Blessing of the Meadows
P:
Blessed are you, Lord our God, maker of the universe and
father of all your people: we praise you and give you glory
for the love you show to us. Bless
d
these fields and
meadows, and let them provide plentiful food for the animals
that feed here. Grant that the weather be favorable, and
all our horses healthy. We place ourselves in your hands and
give you glory through Christ our Lord.
Blessing of the Farm
P:
Be with us now as we bless d
Performance Farm to
your
glory and praise. Bless all those who work and serve in this
place. Grant us faith to know your gracious purpose in all
things, give us joy in them, and lead us to the building up of
your kingdom; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God,
now and forever.
On the
Blessing of Barns
By Father Mack
(a.k.a.: Father Larry David McCormick)
 Tears
welled in my eyes as I stood outside the stall that had last been occupied by
Donovan at Doctor Cesar Parra’s Performance Farm. In spite of the cliché, “Big
boys don’t cry” salty streaks marked my cheeks.
Cesar and
Marcela (the lovely and talented Mrs. Parra) had been in discussion with me
for months concerning the time-honored tradition of asking God’s blessings
upon a workplace. The practice goes back to at least the dangerous days of our
ancestors when the forging of metal, the felling of trees, and, yes, the
training of four-legged critters was as likely to leave a person maimed as it
was to earn him or her a living. In such circumstances it makes perfect sense
to ask the good Creator to keep an eye upon the enterprise and upon the
workers.
 How
sad it is that only weeks after the untimely demise of the oh-so-talented and
equally sweet Donovan our schedules meshed. I combed through the ancient
rituals for the blessing of places of business and was pleasantly surprised to
find a number of prayers intended specifically to call God’s attention to
barns, stables, and the meadows and fields of a farm. Given the recent death
in the family, I composed a new prayer with which to give thanks for the life
of the gifted Donovan and with which to commend him to God’s loving care.
On Saturday
afternoon, the twenty-eighth of July, a host of the Parra family’s friends
gathered in the barn for the bittersweet event. Jen Mandracia (Chief Horse
Care Professional at the farm and all-around genius at getting things done)
and Katie Riley (Senior Trainer for Performance Farm and rising star in the
dressage world) graciously agreed to assist in the rite of blessing, as did
the next generation of Parras, Nicole and Federico. Clouds of incense filled
the aisles of the barn drawing curious looks from most of the four-legged
friends (Furst Fabio seemed strangely unaffected—perhaps he had contact with a
crazy priest like me earlier in his upbringing?).
 Prayer
by prayer we made our way through the lovely confines of the barn asking God
to watch over the people, the horses, and even the feed and fodder. The last
prayer before the benediction was made in front of the stall which has stood
empty since Donovan’s death. He, like all our equine teammates, taught the
folks who cared for him and who had the joy of riding him as much about life
as he may have learned from them. I urge you to make the time to download the
PostScript Distiller File (PDF) that accompanies this article and to read the
portion headed “Thanksgiving for the Life of Donovan.” I will appreciate
hearing your thoughts on its content (mailto:frmac@colubmia.edu)
and I offer it for our use as an equestrian community in times of grief.
My tears have
subsided. But the work at Performance Farm and in the larger world goes
forward. >From my distant vantage point permit me to offer another heartfelt
prayer for all gallant steeds and for the people who love them.
Download
Father Mack's "Barn Blessing" Booklet
here (pdf file)
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Haven't all the years you've spent being Santa Claus, been more fun than
all the years you spent waiting for Santa Claus?
And not just for the joy you've helped place on your favorite faces,
but for your ability to act instead of wait. Acting makes the suspense
bearable. It gives you a starring role. Time passes more quickly. And best
of all, it makes possible the dance of life as you network and mingle with
other dancers.
It's the same for your dreams. Act, don't wait.
Happy Hallelujah, Santa Claus!
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Just up the road from my home is a field, with two horses in
it.
From a distance, each looks like every other horse.
But if you stop your car, or are walking by, you will notice
something quite amazing.
Looking into the eyes of one horse will disclose that he is blind.
His owner has chosen not to have him put down, but has made a good home for him.
This alone is amazing.
If nearby and listening, you will hear the sound of a bell.
Looking around for the source of the sound, you will see that it
comes from the smaller horse in the field.
Attached to her halter is a small bell.
It lets her blind friend know where she is, so he can follow her.
As you stand and watch these two friends, you will see how she is always
checking on him, and that he will listen for her bell and then slowly walk to
where she is, trusting that she will not lead him astray.
When she returns to the shelter of the barn each evening, she stops occasionally
and looks back, making sure her friend isn't too far behind to hear the bell.
Sometimes we are the blind horse being guided by the little ringer
bell , Other times we are the guide horse, helping others see.
Good friends are like this ....... you don't always see them, but you
know they are always there.
Please listen for my bell and I'll listen for yours.
Two Wolves
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside
people. He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 "wolves" inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance,
self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and
ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility,
kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith." The
grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which
wolf wins?" The old Cherokee simply replied,
"The one you feed."
Author Unknown
THE MAGIC OF A HORSE
When your day seems out of balance and
so many things go wrong...
When people fight around you and the day
drags on so long...
When parents act like children, in-laws
make you think "Divorce"...
Go out into your pasture... and wrap
your arms around your horse.
His gentle breath enfolds you, and he
watches with those eyes.
He may not have a PhD, but he is, oh so
wise!
His head rests on your shoulder. You
embrace him ever so tight. He puts your world in balance, and makes it seem all
right.
Your tears they soon stop flowing.
The tension is now eased. The weight has been lifted, and you're quiet and at
peace.
So when you need the balance from
circumstances in your day...
The best therapy that you can seek... is
out there eating hay!!
Kurt Vonnegut's commencement address at
MIT.
>Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:
>Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future,
>sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been
>proven by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more
>reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice
>now.
>Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not
>understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But
>trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in
>a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how
>fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
>Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as
>effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
>The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your
>worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 PM on some idle Tuesday.
>Do one thing every day that scares you. Sing. Don't be reckless with
>other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with
>yours.
>Floss. Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead;
>sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with
>yourself.
>Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in
>doing this, tell me how.
>Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.
>Stretch. Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your
>life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they
>wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I
>know still don't.
>Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when
>they're gone.
>Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you
>won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40; maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on
>your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate
>yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half
>chance. So are everybody else's.
>Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of
>what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever
>own.
>Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
>Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
>Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.
>Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good.
>Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the
>people most likely to stick with you in the future.
>Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should
>hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because
>the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were
>young.
>Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in
>Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.
>Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will
>philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that
>when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and
>children respected their elders.
>Respect your elders. Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you
>have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know
>when either one might run out. Don't mess too much with your hair or by
>the time you're 40 it will look 85.
>Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
>Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past
>from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and
>recycling it for more than it is worth.
>And trust me on the sunscreen.
His name was Fleming,
and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for
his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his
tools
and ran to the bog.
There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and
struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have
been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy
carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings... An elegantly
dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy
Farmer Fleming had saved.
"I want to repay you,"
said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."
"No, I can't accept
payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At
that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.
"Is that your son?" the
nobleman asked.
"Yes," the farmer
replied proudly.
"I'll make you a deal.
Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the
lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will
be proud of." And that he did. Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best
schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in
London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir
Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the
same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
What saved his life
this time? Penicillin.
The name of the
nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name?
Sir Winston Churchill.
Someone once said: What
goes around comes around.
Work like you don't
need the money.
Love like you've never
been hurt.
Dance like nobody's
watching.
Sing like nobody's
listening.
Live like it's Heaven
on Earth.
"One Chance
in a Million"
It happened so sudden, 12 years in my past,
For the rest of my life the injury would last.
The cars hit head-on, not a chance to slow down,
The next I remember, I lay on the ground.
My hip joint was crushed beyond all repair.
"You're too young to replace it," Doc said with a stare,
"You will walk again, but never will run."
These words hit me hard like a shot from a gun.
Ten years came and went, the pain more severe.
I said to my wife, "Time to replace it is here."
When the surgery was over, Doc said to my wife,
"He can't ride a horse for the rest of his life."
We own our own farm with a full riding stable,
So horses and riding put food on our table.
I could sell horses and tack, and some money I'd make,
But to ride one myself was a risk I can't take.
And then it did happen, one night at the sale,
As I stood selling halters inside of the rail.
My wife came up to me with that look in her eye.
She said, "There's a horse out back ready to die."
As I walked to the killer pen and looked over the fence,
There stood a starved gelding whose frame was immense.
His eyes were three inches sunk back in his head;
If he were lying down, you would have sworn he was dead.
He stood sixteen-one, weighed about four and a quarter,
His hair was three inches and not one-half shorter.
A skeleton with hide stood before my own eyes.
If he walked through the ring, it would be a surprise.
As the barn door slid open and they led him on in,
The auctioneer said, "Two hundred is where we'll begin."
The kill buyer said, "Two-oh-five's all I'll give."
I said, "I'll give two-ten just to see if he'll live."
The bids then quit coming, not a sound from the crowd,
The next word was "Sold" he said very loud.
As the trailer backed up to the wood loading gate,
I said, "Let's get him home before it's too late."
He had to have help to step up to the floor,
But we got him in and then closed the door.
As I drove home that night, I looked back at a glance
And said, "If he lives, we'll call him Last Chance."
Well, we made the trip home, and he lived through the night.
When the vet came next morning, he said, "What a sight."
We floated his teeth and trimmed all his feet,
Gave him wormer and thiamin and a little to eat.
My vet said his heart was as strong as a drum,
If we brought him along slowly the rest may just come.
Well, his weight starting coming and his health soon returned.
He showed us his love he must have thought that we earned.
He would whinny and nicker as I walked to the shed,
As if to say, "Thanks, 'cause of you, I'm not dead."
He would stroll the whole place without being penned,
He'd come when I call, just like man's best friend.
Three months had gone by since the night of the sale,
My wife had him tied on our old hitchin' rail.
I asked her, 'What's up?" as I just came outside.
She said, "It's time to see if he'll ride."
She threw on the blanket, saddle, bridle and said,
"The worst that could happen, I'll get tossed on my head."
As her seat hit the leather, he stood like a rock.
With a tap of her heels, he started to walk.
He reined to the left and he reined to the right,
The bit in his mouth he sure didn't fight.
He did what she asked without second thought.
She cantered him on and not once he fought.
When she returned from the ride with a tear in her eye,
She said, "He's the one, would you like to try?"
I thought to myself as I stood at his side,
If this giant's that gentle, why not take a ride?
It had been a long time, but the look on his face,
Said, "Hop on, my good friend, let's ride 'round this place."
We rode round the yard, then out through the gate,
This giant and me, it must have been fate.
He gave me back part of my life that I lost,
Knew then I'd keep him, no matter what cost.
I've been offered two-thousand, and once even three,
But no money on earth would buy him from me.
You see, we share something special, this gelding and me,
A chance to start over, a chance to be free.
And when the day comes that his heart beats no more,
I'll bury my friend just beyond my back door.
And over his grave I'll post a big sign,
"Here lies Last Chance, a true friend of mine."
Author Unknown
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Lisa Beamer on Good Morning America - If you remember, she's the
wife of Todd Beamer who said "Let's Roll!" and helped take down the
plane that was heading for Washington, D.C.
She said it's the little things that she misses most about Todd,
such as hearing the garage door open as he came home, and her
children running to meet him. She's now the Mom of a beautiful
little girl, Mary.
Lisa
recalled this story:
I had a very special teacher in high school many years ago whose
husband died suddenly of a heart attack. About a week after his
death, she shared some of her insight with a classroom of students.
As the late afternoon sunlight came streaming in through the
classroom windows and the class was nearly over, she moved a few
things aside on the edge of her desk and sat down there.
With a gentle look of reflection on her face, she paused and said,
"Class is over. I would like to share with all of you, a thought
that is unrelated to class, but which I feel is very important.
"Each of us is put here on earth to learn, share, love, appreciate
and give of ourselves. None of us knows when this fantastic
experience will end. It can be taken away at any moment. Perhaps
this is the Powers way of telling us that we must make the most out
of every single day."
Her eyes beginning to water, she went on, "So I would like you all
to make me a promise. From now on, on your way to school, or on your
way home, find something beautiful to notice. It doesn't have to be
something you see, it could be a scent, perhaps of freshly baked
bread wafting out of someone's house, or it could be the sound of
the breeze slightly rustling the leaves in the trees, or the way the
morning light catches one autumn leaf as it falls gently to the
ground.
"Please look for these things, and cherish them. For, although it
may sound trite to some, these things are the 'stuff' of life. The
little things we are put here on earth to enjoy. The things we often
take for granted. We must make it important to notice them, for at
anytime it can all be taken away."
The class was completely quiet. We all picked up our books and filed
out of the room silently. That afternoon, I noticed more things on
my way home from school than I had that whole semester.
Every once in a while, I think of that teacher and remember what an
impression she made on all of us, and I try to appreciate all of
those things that sometimes we all overlook.
Take notice of something special you see on your lunch hour today.
Go barefoot, or walk on the beach at sunset. Stop off on the way
home tonight to get a double dip ice cream cone. For as we get
older, is not the things we did that we often regret, but the things
we didn't do.
If you like this, please pass it on to a friend. If not just delete
it and go on with your life!
Remember, life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but
by the moments that take our breath away. |
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And On The Eighth Day GOD Said: "Horses Shall Not Trot." And the
Good Horses Listened.
..........................
"Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid
down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion." Emerson
............................
"Thou must learn the thoughts of the noble horse whom thou wouldst
ride. The horse is a wise animal. Let him show you the best and most natural way
to accomplish a desired end." - Johann Wolfgang Goethe
.............................
"God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no
horses." Robert B Cunninghame-Graham 1917
...............................
"No hour of life is lost that is spent riding a horse." Winston
Churchill
.....................................
"Rider and horse must meet with joy and part as friends. The
friendly greeting, the patting hand should never be absent when mounting and
dismounting." F.v.Krane (1856, 82, translation: TR).
.................................
Never leave a resistant horse without reconciliation, even if you
had to treat it very strictly on that particular day. Do not put it away until
it obeys, but then a friendly relationship must be restored between trainer and
horse. Always adhere to the principle: "The punishment is directed only at the
disobedience, never at the horse"; as soon as the disobedience is over, it is
our good horse. E.F.Seidler (1846, 365, translation: TR).
............................
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish
to keep them in working order. John Adams (1735 - 1826)
......................................
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. Russian
proverb
..................................
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on
people. W. C. Fields (1890 - 1946)
.........................
"There is something about riding down the street on a prancing
horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing." Will
Rogers
.........................
"Look back on our struggle for freedom,
Trace our present day's strength to it's source;
And you'll find that man's pathway to glory
Is strewn with the bones of a horse" Anonymous
......................
"Where in this wide world can a person find nobility without pride,
friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced
with muscle and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without servility, he
has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent;
there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient"...Ronald Duncan
.....................................
If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is
no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you onto a
comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back like a
fireside chair. ~Monica Dickens
.....................................
When I can't ride anymore, I shall keep horses as long as I can
hobble along with a bucket and wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my
wheelchair out by the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them."
~Monica Dickens
................................
Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyways. ~John
Wayne
....................................
Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him
horses. ~Winston Chuchill
..........................................
"A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves-
strong, powerful, beautiful- and it has the capability of giving us escape from
our mundane existence."
..................................
"do we really have to cross the creek when there is a great bridge
over there?" Vendavalda the Peruvian Paso.
......................................
Moments spent on the back of a horse are ne'er counted against the
hours of a man's life....
.......................................
"God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no
horses." Robert Bontine
....................................
"Emily, I've a little confession to make. I really am a horse
doctor. But marry me, and I'll never look at any other horse!" Groucho Marx
..............................................
It may be broadly stated that.....of all animals kept for the
recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that
shall be absolutely hopeless. Bret Harte
.......................................
One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's
life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse. --Phillis Theroux
SOMEWHERE
Somewhere, somewhere, in God's own
space,
there must be some sweet, pastured
place
Where creeks sing on, and tall trees
grow; some paradise where horses go.
For by the love that guides my pen,
I know great horses live again.
The Foal
I'll lend you for a little while my
grandest foal, HE said.
for you to love while he's alive and
mourn when he is dead.
It may be one or twenty years, or
days or months, you see,
but will you, till I take him back,
take care of him for me?
He'll bring his charms to gladden
you, and should his stay be brief,
you'll have treasured memories as
solace for your grief.
I cannot promise he will stay, since
all from earth return,
but there are lessons taught on
earth I want this foal to learn.
I've looked the wide world over In
my search for teachers true.
And from the throngs that crowd
life's lanes, with trust, I've chosen you.
Now will you give him total love?
not think the labor vain,
nor hate me when I come here to take
him back again?
I know you'll give him tenderness
and love will bloom each day,
and for the happiness you've known,
forever grateful stay
But should I come and call for him
much sooner than you'd planned,
you'll brave the bitter grief that
comes, and someday, understand.
~~Hug Your Horse~~~
When your day seems out of balance
and so many things go wrong,
when people fight around you and the
day drags on so long,
when parents act like children,
in-laws make you think "Divorce",
go out in your pasture... wrap your
arms around your horse.
His gentle breath enfolds you and he
watches with those eyes.
He may not have a PhD, but he is oh,
so wise!
His head rests on your shoulder. You
embrace him oh so tight.
He puts your world in balance, and
makes it seem all right.
Your tears will soon stop flowing.
The tension is now eased.
The garbage has been lifted, and
you're quiet and at peace.
So when you need the balance from
circumstances in your day,
the best therapy that you can seek
is out there eating hay!!
Copyright owner/Author:~Mary Ann
Miller~
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"The essential joy of being with
horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace,
beauty, spirit and freedom."
Sharon Ralls Lemon
"No heaven can heaven be, if my horse isn't
there to welcome me."
Author Unknown
"To see the wind's power, the rain's cleansing and the sun's radiant life,
one need only to look at the horse."
Author Unknown
"Half the failures in life result from pulling in one's horse when it is
leaping."
Author Unknown
"When your horse follows you without being asked,
when he rubs his head on yours, and when you look at him and feel a tingle
down your spine...you know you are loved."
John Lyons
"I have seen things so beautiful they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet
none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running
free."
Author Unknown
"The way to heaven is on
horseback."
Author Unknown
"Virtue shall be bound into the hair of thy forelock.
I have given thee the power of flight without wings."
The Koran
"I've spent most of my life
riding horses. The rest I've just wasted."
Author Unknown
"The horse, with beauty
unsurpassed, strength immeasurable and grace unlike any other, still
remains humble enough to carry a man upon his back."
Amber Senti
"To many, the words love, hope
and dreams are synonymous with horses."
Author Unknown
"All horses deserve, at least
once in their lives, to be loved by a little girl."
Author Unknown
"A true horseman does not look
at the horse with his eyes, he looks at his horse with his heart."
Author Unknown
"In riding a horse, we borrow
freedom."
Helen Thompson
"A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of
you, but a noble companion walks beside you."
Author Unknown
"A large and liquid eye...the swirl of dust around pounding
hooves...these, then, are the images that move us."
Author Unknown
"Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and
self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls. They
give us hope!"
Toni Robinson
"One can get in a car and see
what man has made. One must get on a horse to see what God has made."
Author Unknown
"The air of heaven is that
which blows between a horse's ears."
Arabian Proverb
"If you have seen nothing but
the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from
you."
Author Unknown
"Wherever man has left his
footprints in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization, we find the hoofprint
of a horse beside it."
John Trotwood Moore
"To understand the soul of a
horse is the closest human beings can come to knowing perfection."
Author Unknown
"For one to fly, one needs only
to take the reins."
Melissa James
"His is a power enhanced by pride, a courage heightened by challenge. His
is a swiftness intensified by strength, a majesty magnifed by grace. His
is a timeless beauty touched with gentleness, a spirit that calls our
hearts to dream."
Author Unknown
"Horse thou art truly a creature, for thou fliest without wings and
conquorest without sword."
The Koran
"You and your horse. His strength and beauty. Your knowledge and patience
and determination and understanding and love. That's what fuses the two of
you onto this marvelous partnership that makes you wonder..."What can
heaven offer any better then what I have here on earth?"
Monica Dickens
"A good rider can hear his horse speak to him. A great rider can hear his
horse whisper."
Author Unknown
"Horses lend us the wings we
lack."
Pam Brown
"The love for a horse is just as complicated as the love for another human
being...if you never love a horse, you will never understand."
Author Unknown
"He has galloped through young
girl's dreams, added richness to grown women's lives and served men in war
and strife."
Toni Robinson
"A dog may be man's best
friend...but the horse wrote history."
Author Unknown
"The horse. Here is nobility
without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity. A willing
servant, yet never a slave."
Ronald Duncan
"Bread may feed my body, but my
horse feeds my soul."
Author Unknown
"When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever
have."
Sir Winston Churchill
"We kept him until he died...and sat with him during the long last
minutes when a horse comes closest to seeming human."
C.J. Mullen
"Our hoofbeats were many, but our hearts beat as one."
Author Unknown
"Your horse's behavior always seems to depend on the number of people
watching you."
Author Unknown
"When a horse greets you with a
nicker and regards you with a large and liquid eye, the question of where
you want to be has been answered."
Author Unknown
"No philosophers so thoroughly
comprehend us as dogs and horses."
Herman Melville
"At its finest, rider and horse
are joined not by tack, but by trust. Each is totally reliant upon
the other. Each is the selfless guardian of the other's very well-being."
Author Unknown
"If your horse says "no", you
either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong."
Pat Parelli
"I heard a neigh. Oh, such a
brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark
days of mourning - the faithful horse has been with us always."
Elizabeth Cotton
"Ask me to show you poetry
in motion and I will show you a horse."
Author Unknown
"There is no secret so close as
that between a rider and his horse."
R.S. Surtees
"And indeed, a horse who bears
himself proudly is a thing of such beauty and astonishment that he
attracts the eyes of all beholders. No one will tire of looking at him as
long as he will display himself in his splendor."
Xenophon
"The history of mankind
is carried on the back of a horse."
Author Unknown
"You took me to adventure
and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I
stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy
of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me."
Pam Brown
"One must think when looking at a horse in motion, that it hears music
inside its head."
Author Unknown
"In their eyes shine stars of wisdom and courage to guide men to the
heavens."
Jodie Mitchell
"He knows when you're happy. He knows when your're comfortable. He knows
when you're confident. And he always knows when you have carrots."
Author Unknown
"The world is best viewed through the ears of a horse."
Author Unknown
"No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle."
Winston Churchill
"When the Almighty put hoofs on
the wind and a bridle on the lightning,
He called it a horse."
Author Unknown
"A man on a horse is
spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot."
John Steinbeck
"To see a horse is to see an
angel on earth."
Author Unknown
"A dog looks up to a man. A
cat looks down on a man. But a patient horse looks a man in the eye
and sees him as an equal."
Author Unknown
"Many people have sighed for
the "good old days" and regretted the "passing of the horse". But today,
when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for
horses."
C.W. Anderson
"Let a horse whisper in your
ear and breathe on your heart. You will never regret it."
Author Unknown
"To ride on a horse is to fly without wings".
Author Unknown
"There is something about
riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like
something, even when you ain't a thing."
Will Rogers
"We have almost forgotten how
strange a thing it is that so huge and powerful and intelligent an animal
as a horse should allow another, and far more feeble animal, to ride
upon its back."
Peter Gray
"A canter is a cure for every
evil."
Benjamin Disraeli
"When you're young and you fall
off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off,
you splatter."
Roy Rogers
"Before I loved horses, I had
nothing to live for. Now I love horses and can't stop seeing things to
live for."
Author Unknown
"One who believes that he has mastered the art of horsemanship has not yet
begun to understand the horse."
Author Unknown
"There is something about the
outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man."
Sir Winston Churchill
"Stay away from a horse long enough and you'll start tapping your fingers
to the beat of a trot."
Author Unknown
"On the back of a horse you will find Paradise."
Stella A. Walker
"A horse in the wind - a perfect symphony."
Author Unknown
"A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but
the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan."
Pam Brown
"In the steady gaze of the horse shines a silent eloquence that speaks of
love and loyalty, strength and courage. It is the window that reveals to
us how willing is his spirit, how generous his heart."
Author Unknown
"His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song."
Jerry Shulman
"The horse you get off is not
the same as the horse you got on. It is your job as a rider to ensure that
as often as possible, the change is for the better."
Author Unknown
"There are many wonderful
places in the world, but one of my favorite places is on the back of my
horse."
Rolf Kopfle
"A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure."
Rebecca Carroll
"The horse moved like a dancer, which is not surprising. A horse is a
beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if
it always hears music."
Mark Helprin, A Winter's Tale
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He has galloped through young
girl's dreams, added richness to grown women's lives, and served men in war and
strife.
~Toni Robinson
For better it is to dare
mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than
to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because
they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory or defeat.
~Theodore Roosevelt
DRESSAGE, n.: the passionate
pursuit of perfection by the obsessively imperfect
It is impossible to enjoy
idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
A pony is a childhood dream,
A horse is an adulthood treasure.
~ Rebecca Carroll
I will not jump with common
spirits
~William Shakespeare
There is just as much horse
sense as ever, but the horses have most of it.
~ Anonymous
Spring and summer are riding
on a piebald mare.
~ Russian Proverb
. . .A horse is a thing of
such beauty. . .none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself
in his splendor.
~Xenophon
So philosophers so thoroughly
comprehend us as horses.
~Hermann Melville.
The essential joy of being
with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace,
beauty, spirit, and fire.
~Sharon Ralls Lemon
It's a lot like nuts and bolts
- if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!
~The Horse Whisperer
The outside of a horse is good
for the inside of a man
~Winston Churchill
To know the Arabian horse is
to love him
If wishes were horses ,
beggars would ride
I found one way to fly; On the
back of an airborne horse!
~Sarah Z.
To Ride Or Not To
Ride?....What A Stupid Question!
Both a horse and a man have
something in common, both dump you, though generally you get over the horse's
dumping first.
I'd rather be dumped by a
horse than dumped by a man!
All I pay my psychiatrist is
cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day!
I love the horse from hoof to
head
From head to hoof and tail to mane
I love the horse as I have said
From head to hoof and back again.
~James Whitcomb Riley
Show me your horse and I will
tell you what you are.
~Old English Saying
Horse thou art truly a
creature
without equal, for thou fliest
without wings and conquerest
without sword.
~The Koran
A horse gallops with his
lungs,
Perseveres with his heart,
And wins with his character.
~Tesio
There are fools, damn fools,
and those who remount in a steeplechase.
~Bill Whitbread
My horses are my friends, not
my slaves.
~Reiner Klimke
Your horse loves you; not for
your looks, but for your love!
^ and food!
He knows when you're happy
He knows when you're comfortable
He knows when you're confident
And he ALWAYS knows when you have carrots
~unknown
The wind of heaven is that
which blows between a horse's ears.
~ Arabian proverb
There's nothing better for the
soul of a man than the outside of a horse...
~Ronald Reagen
In this game there are
millions of ways to get beaten but only 1 way to win-by finishing first
~Cigars trainer, Bill Mott
Four things greater than all
things are Women and horses and power and War
~Rudyard Kipling
For want of a nail a shoe was
lost, for want of a shoe a horse was lost, for want of a horse a rider was lost,
for want of a rider a army was lost, for want of an army a battle was lost, for
want of a battle the war was lost, for want of the war the kingdom was lost, and
all for the want of a little horseshoe nail.
~Benjamin Franklin
Hard it is to teach the old
horse to amble anew.
~Edmund Spencer
Men are generally more
concerned of the breeding of their horses than of their children
~William Penn
There is no secret closer than
what passes between a man and his horse
~RS Surtees
Why use a crop on the
horse-they are made for the sibling!
If you start getting nervous
about getting hurt you will be....If you are worrying about the danger it's time
to give up.
~Jason Weaver (jockey)
I will not change my horse
with any that treads but on four pasterns...When I bestride him, I soar, I am a
hawk. He trots the air, the earth sings when he touches it, the basest horn of
his hoofs is more musical than the pipe of Hermes...When bestride him I soar, I
am a hawk...
~ William Shakespeare
An instinct sympathy which
makes the horse the master one heart, one pulse, one understanding love- is
never made, but born.
~George Agnew Chamberlain
If your horse says no, you
either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.
~Pat Parelli
You can tell a horse owner by
the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a
screwed-up waxed jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer
of children and dogs.
~Helen Thompson
Somewhere...Somewhere in
time's Own Space
There must be some sweet pastured place
Where creeks sing on and tall trees grow
Some Paradise where horses go,
For by the love that guides my pen
I know great horses live again.
~Stanley Harrison
The bucking started from the
back door of hell on a hot day, and came out on the run,
~Charlie Siringo
Spending that many hours in
the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys
fancied themselves Philosophers.
~CM Russel
He's the kind of horse with a
far-away look. He'll sure take a man through some awful places and sometimes
only one comes out.
~WS James
"What's that boiling, coffee
or horse piss?" "Horse piss-he ate the grounds and I couldn't see to let them
go to waste."
We found that the best use for
his candy was lurin' your horse in the morning.
~Bill Craig
Never trust a cowhand that
doesn't know how to properly tie a horse.
~A Cowboy Truth
For horses can educate through
first hand, subjective, personal experiences, unlike human tutors, teachers, and
professors can ever do. Horses can build character, not merely urge one to
improve on it. Horses forge the mind, the character, the emotions and inner
lives of humans. People can talk to one another about all these things and
remain distanced and lonesome . In partnership with a horse, one is seldom
lacking for thought, emotion and inspiration. One is always attended by a great
companion.
~Charles de Kunffy
If you desire to handle a good war-horse so as to make his action the more
magnificent and striking, you must refrain from pulling at his mouth with the
bit as well as from spurring and whipping him. [...] but if you teach your horse
to go with a light hand on the bit, and yet to hold his head well up and to arch
his neck,
you will be making him do just what the animal himself glories and delights in.
~Xenophon - The Art of Horsemanship
For what the horse does under
compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is
no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
~Xenophon - The Art of Horsemanship
If, however, you reward him
with kindness after he has done as you wish, and punish him when he disobeys, he
will be most likely to learn to obey as he ought.
~Xenophon - The Art of Horsemanship
It is the best of lessons if the horse gets a season of repose whenever he has
behaved to his rider's satisfaction.
~Xenophon - The Art of Horsemanship
Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice. However,
practice without true principles is nothing other than routine, the fruit of
which is a strained and unsure execution, a false
diamond which dazzles semi-connoisseurs often more impressed by the
accomplishments of the horse than the merit of the horseman.
~Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere
Grace is so great an adornment
for a rider, and at the same time so important a means to the knowledge of all
that which is necessary for persons aspiring to become riders, that such persons
should willingly sped the time required to obtain that quality at the outside of
their endeavors.
~Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere
The knowledge of the nature of
a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every
horseman must make it his principal study.
~Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere
In order to have a good hand,
it must be light, gentle, and firm.
~Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere
A light hand is one which
never feels the contact of the bit with the bars.
~Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere
A gentle hand is one which
feels the effect of the bit slightly without giving too much contact.
~Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere
A firm hand is one which holds the horse in full contact.
~Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere
Above all, a horse should
never be chastised out of foul mood or anger, but always with complete
dispassion.
~Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere
Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they
fatigue and bore a horse, and it should be returned to the stable with the same
good spirits it had upon leaving it.
~Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere
Others make a point of trying to attain the precision and poise they see in
those who have the ability to choose from a great number of horses those with
[...] qualities found in only a very small number of horses. This leads to a
circumstance in which these imitators of such studied poise mortify the spirit
of a noble horse, and remove from it all of the goodness of temperament Nature
has given it.
~Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere
Horsemanship is not merely a
matter of bodily skills, but is based on scholarship and, therefore, is a matter
of the mind and intellect. Good horsemanship is based on proper character
development and, therefore, is also a matter of mentality and spirit. Without
the correct attitudes and insights, there cannot be the right sport.
~Charles de Kunffy
Courage, wisdom born of
insight and humility, empathy born of compassion and love, all can be bequeathed
by a horse to his rider.
~Charles de Kunffy
A horse 'held in shape' by his
rider is only posturing in a seemingly correct form, usually for the benefit of
inexperienced observers.
~Charles de Kunffy
Speed is the enemy of
impulsion.
~Charles de Kunffy
Competitive riding should be
classical riding at its best.
~Charles de Kunffy
...there are more and more
people who have no access to classical equestrian education or lack the will to
pursue it, riders who are intellectually lazy, are physically incompetent, and
will gladly promote the notion that there is a new kind of dressage akin to
technology.
~Charles de Kunffy
Dressage riding comprises many
skills, several of which are acquired by jumping and riding cross-country,
or on trails.
~Charles de Kunffy
No man ought to look a given
horse in the mouth.
~John Heywood
A short horse is soon curried.
~John Heywood
A man may well bring a horse
to the water,
~John Heywood
While the grasse groweth the
horse starveth.
~John Heywood
The grey mare is the better
horse.
~John Heywood
Set the cart before the horse.
~John Heywood
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for
horses, hell for women
~Robert Burton
Hark! the shrill trumpet
sounds to horse! away!
~Colley Cibber
The ass will carry his load,
but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
~Miguel de Cervantes
A cowboy is a man with guts and a horse.
~Will James
It is wonderful when one is
out with these animals, how attached they become. There are times when I would
walk up to my horse, that he would nicker in a low tone and run his nose against
me in a very knowing manner.
~HS Young
The typical cowboy was wolf
wild and free as the wind.
~Charlie Cowboy
I took to the life of a cowboy
like a horse takes to oats.
~Clinton McCoy
On horseback you could ride
through the cattle and they would pay no attention. But the minute you dismount,
you becomes a threat.
~David J Myers
If your horse doesn't care,
you shouldn't either
~Linsy Lee
To ride a horse is to ride the
sky
How the horse dominated the
mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you
had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse,
the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in
man!
~Apocalpyse
O for a horse with wings!
~William Shakespeare
As full of spirit as the
month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.
~William Shakespeare
A horse, a horse, my kingdom
for a horse!
~William Shakespeare
Well could he ride, and often
men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection,
noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!"
And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his
deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.
~William Shakespeare
...Vaulted with such ease into
his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery
Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
~William Shakespeare
God forbid that I should go to
any Heaven in which there are no horses.
~R. Graham
He doth nothing but talk of
his horses.
~William Shakespeare
A good rider on a good horse
is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
~Lord Herbert
Round
Hoofed, short joined, fetlocks shag and long.
Broad breast, full eye, small head and nostril wide
High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong
Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttocks, tender hide.
Look, what a horse should have he did not lack
Save a proud
rider on so proud a back.
And I
looked, and beheld a pale horse: and his name that sat sat upon him was death.
~Revelations
To me, horses and freedom are
synonymous
~Veryl Goodnight
The Horse
And God took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it and created
the horse.
~Bedouin Legend
He has galloped through young
girl's dreams, added richness to grown women's lives, and served men in
war and strife.
~Toni Robinson
Horses change lives. They give
our young people confidence and self esteem. They provide peace and tranquility
to troubled souls- they give us hope!
~Toni Robinson
...Wild to hold, though I seem
tame.
~Thomas Wyatt
I will not change my horse
with any that treads on four pasterns. Ca ha! He bounds from the earth, as if
his entrails were hairs, le cheval volant, the Pegasus, chez les narines de feu!
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a
hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of
his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes... he is pure air and
fire...the prince of palfreys; his neigh is like the bidding of a monarch and
his countenance enforces homage.
~William Shakespeare
A horse gallops with its
lungs, perseveres with its heart, and wins with its character.
~Tessio
To many, the words love, hope
and dreams are synonymous with horses.
The horses prance and paw and
neigh, Fillies and colts like kittens play...
~Oliver W. Homes
Has thou given the horse
strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid
as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the
valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He
mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He
swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is
the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha ha; and he smelleth
the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
~Job 39:19-25
...suddenly a chariot of fire
and horses of fire appeared...
~2 Kings 2:11
Dear to me is my bonnie white
steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.
~Sir Walter Scott
A Hiberanium sage once wrote
that there are three things a man never forgets: The girl of his early youth, a
devoted teacher, and a great horse.
~C. Mullen
There's something about the
outside of a horse that's good for the inside of a man.
~Sir Winston Churchill
Show me your horse and I will
tell you who you are.
~English saying
The horse through all its
trials has preserved the sweetness of paradise in its blood.
~Johannes Jensen
Horses symbolize the personal
drive for freedom shared by people of all nations.
When will they make a tractor
that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every
spring?
~George Rupp
The old mare watched the tractor work
A thing of rubber and steel,
Ready to follow the slightest wish
Of the man who held the wheel.
She said to herself as it passed by,
You gave me an awful jolt
But there's still one thing you cannot do,
You cannot raise a colt.
~Source unknown
Fierce as the fire and fleet
as the wind...
~A.L. Gordon
The wagon rests in winter, the
sleigh in summer, the horse never.
~Yiddish Proverb
There is something about
breeding good horses that makes it the Sport of Kings.
~Stanly Harrison
Steeds, steeds, what steeds!
Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
~Nilolai Gogol
When God created the horse he
said to the magnificent creature: I have made thee as no other. All the
treasures of the earth lie between thy eyes. Thou shalt carry my friends upon
thy back. Thy saddle shall be the seat of prayers to me. And thou fly without
wings, and conquer without any sword. Oh, horse.
~The Qu'ran (Koran)
Note: The Qu'ran is the sacred book of Islam, which was written by the honorable
Muhammed.
Their horses were of great
stature, strong and clean-limbed; their grey coats glistened, their long tails
flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
A Horseman should know neither
fear, nor anger...
~James Rarey
Soon I shall go to sleep, in
hopes of seeing him again. His intelligent soft eyes, his elegant head. His soft
heart, and his four legs. For my horse is a dream, a dream of the making.
~Lindsay Turcotte
If I had a horse, I'd ride off
in the sunset, where dreams, and shadows lie. To a life, where pain and sorrow
don't exist, and to where hopes, and dreams become reality.
~Lindsay Turcotte
...A horse is a thing a
beauty...none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his
splender.
Ask me to show you poetry in
motion, and I will show you a horse
They say that princes learn no
art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no
flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
~Ben Jonson
You can have a man, a woman, a
dog or a cow and you will still dream for the horse. Of course, money/fame come
a close second.....
~Magic Pony
You know you are going really
fast when you are galloping the same way as the wind is blowing, yet there is
wind in your ears.
~Larry
-Why did the man decide to buy
an Appaloosa?
-Because he didn't have enough money for a horse, but he didn't want a dog!
People on horses look better
than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
...tireless, swift as the
flowing wind. Shadowfax they called him. By day his coat glistens like silver;
and by night it is like a shade, and he passes unseen. Light is his footfall!
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Sometimes you have to put your
foot down to get a leg up.
~Dave Weinbaum
There are times when you can
trust a horse, times when you can't, and times when you have to.
**I have never been able to
get **
**the barrels to race **
**the shows to jump **
**the flat to race **
**poles to bend **
**Haven't been able to get **
**the harness to race **
**the team to pen **
*Have You?*
A horse is the projection of
peoples' dreams about themselves-strong, powerful, beautiful-and it has the
capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
~Pam Brown
The sight of [that pony] did
something to me I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than
tremendous strength and speed and beauty of motion. He set me dreaming.
~Walt Morey
In riding a horse we borrow
freedom.
~Helen Thomson
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Half
the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is
leaping.
--Augustus Hare
I don't mind where
people make love, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten
the horses.
--Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Flaming enthusiasm,
backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most
frequently makes for success.
--Dale Carnegie
The human mind is not
rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme,
under which it strives to bring everything.
--George Santayana
Science is not a sacred
cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.
--Aubrey Eben
All you need for
happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
--Daniel Boone
If you want a kitten,
start out by asking for a horse.
--Naomi, 15 Advice from Kids
When the horse dies,
dismount
--Unknown
Did you ever see an
unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that has the blues? One reason why
birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress
other birds and horses.
--Dale Carnegie
A horse may be coaxed to
drink, but a pencil must be lead.
--Stan Laurel Rodeo, the only sport that gets you off in 8 seconds or
less.
--Unknown
Put some excitement
between you legs, ride a horse.
--Unknown
Some athletes don't care
what kind of shoes they wear, or how many fans they have. They don't even
care that they're on television from coast to coast. They just want to
run.
--Unknown
One of the worst things
that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
--Danny McGoorty Irish Pool Player
If you're a cowboy and
you're dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you
mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
A horse may be coaxed to
drink, but a pencil must be lead.
--Stan Laurel
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A
Dog looks up to a man,
A cat looks down on a man,
But a patient horse looks a man in the eye and sees him as an equal.
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A
woman needs two animals: The horse of her dreams and a jackass to pay
for it.
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Poverty is another word for owning a horse...
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A
little horseplay... the way best to enjoy a summer day!
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If
every child had a horse, what's the point a getting a car?
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Cowgirl: A better-looking cowboy with brains.
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Life is short!! Hug your horse!!
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When in doubt, ask a horse.
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When riding my horse I no longer have my heart in my chest, but
between my knees.
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Correction does much for the horse, but encouragement does more.
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A
horse is an angel without wings
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I
whisper to my horse, but he never listens!
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My
other car is a horse.
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Just because you can jump a fence going north doesn't mean you can
jump in going south.
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A
good rider can hear his horse speak to him.
A great rider can hear his horse whisper.
But a bad rider won't hear his horse even if it screams at him!
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A
boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has
learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can read
distinctly; and yet there are some people who, as soon a they get on a
young horse, entirely undressed and untaught, fancy that by beating
and spurring they will make him a dressed horse in one morning only. I
would fain ask such stupid people whether by beating a boy they would
teach him to read without first showing him the alphabet? Sure they
would beat him to death before they would make him read.
- Reproduced from The Man Who Listens to Horses - Original
source unknown.
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You never get the pleasure of owning a horse, you only have the
pleasure of being its slave.
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Grooming: the process by which the dirt on the horse is transferred to
the groom.
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You can love horse and ride it and a horse can love you and squash
you.
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Some are slaves on the ground but are free on a horse.
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Nothing moves me more than when on the way to fetching in my mare in
the morning than the sound of her neighing to me as i open the gate.
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The Joy of horses is not the riding, jumping, racing, showing, or
grooming, but of owning!!!
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The love for a horse is just as complicated as the love for another
human being...If you never love a horse, you will never understand.
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A
mule is just like horse, but even more so.
- Pat Parelli
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A
horse doesn't care how much you know until he knows how much you care.
- Pat Parelli
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A
horse is like a best friend. They`re always there to nuzzle you and
make your life a better place.
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The hardest thing about learning to ride is the ground!
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My
horse is security conscience... he always likes to bolt the stable
door when I leave.
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time
we fall.
- Confucious
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My
horse is very quick. Sometimes he's so quick he leaves me behind.
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I
live in a house but my home is in the stable.
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...virtue shall be bound into the hair of thy forelock... I have given
thee the power of flight without wings.
- The Koran
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There on the tips of fair fresh flowers feedeth he; How joyous is his
neigh, there in the midst of sacred pollen hidden all hidden he; how
joyous is his neigh
- Navajo Song
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By
reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace,
though he is as majestic as the palace itself.
- Emir Abd-el-Kader
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A
polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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Horses are the dolphins of the plains, the spirits of the wind; yet we
sit astride them for the sake of being well-groomed, whereas they
could have all the desire in the world to bolt, but instead, they
adjust their speed and grace, only to please us, never to displease.
- Lauren Salerno
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You can lead your horse to water, but you can't stop him pulling you
away!!!
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A
man of kindness to his horse, is kind
But brutal actions show a brutal mind.
He was designed thy servant, not thy drudge.
Remember his creator is thy judge.
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Horse... If God made anything more beautiful he kept it for himself!
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Attributed to Lady Thornicroft after the hunt. when a saboteur asked
her why the horse was so hot and sweated up; "If I had you between my
legs for two and a half hours you dear sir, you would be equally as
hot and sweaty."
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If
a horse stands on you its because your in the way.
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How to ride a horse:
Step One - Mount the horse.
Step Two - Stay mounted ...
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A
stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of
you, but a noble companion walks beside you.
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When your horse follows you with out being asked, when he rubs his
head on yours, and when you look at him and feel a tingle down your
spine you know you are loved...do you love him back?
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A
western horse has guts and commitment, an english horse has grace and
elegance, but my horse has it all!
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A
polo pony is like a motorbike with a mind of its own weighing half a
ton.
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Been There... Jumped That!
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There are only two emotions that belong in the saddle; one is a sense
of humor and the other is patience.
- John Lyons
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When in doubt, leave one stride out! |
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In
my opinion, a horse is the animal to have. 1100 pounds of raw muscle,
power, grace, and sweat between your legs - it's something you just
can't get from a pet hamster.
- Anonymous
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If
you are a rider, the number one thing to do is ... marry money!
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Words are as beautiful as wind horses, and sometimes as difficult to
corral.
- Ted Berkman, The Christian Science Monitor
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One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not
trying to impress other birds and horses.
- Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
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What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age.
- French Proverb
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Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We
call this stable management.
- George H. Morris, The American Jumping Style
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Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse.
- Danish Proverb
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Of
all creature God made at the Creation, there is none more excellent,
or so much to be respected as a horse.
- Bedouin Legend
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It
is the difficult horses that have the most to give you.
- Lendon Gray
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An
exhibitor went up to a horse show judge to complain about being placed
below someone who made some sort of mistake, such as being on the
wrong lead. The judge's explanation: 'the other guy did it better
wrong than you did it right.
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Every time you ride, your either teaching or un-teaching your horse.
- Gordon Wright
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One man's wrong lead is another man's counter-canter.
- S.D. Price
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You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
- Dagobert D. Runes
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How do you catch a loose horse?
Make a noise like a carrot.
- British Cavalry joke
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If
anybody expects to calm a horse down by tiring him out with riding
swiftly and far, his supposition is the reverse of the truth.
- Xenophon
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Wild oats aren't meant for sowing - but they make a nice trail snack.
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Leave a horse's gate unfastened and he'll be knocking on your window
in the night.
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Whinnying is everything.
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All horses deserve, at least once in their lives, to be loved by a
little girl.
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Ask not what your horse can do for you - Ask what you can do for your
horse.
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May the horse be with you.
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It
excites me that no matter how much machinery replaces the horse, the
work it can do is still measured in horsepower.....even in this space
age. And although a riding horse often weighs half a ton, and a big
drafter a full ton, either can be led about by a piece of string if he
has been wisely trained. This to me is a constant source of wonder,
and challenge.
- Marguret Henry
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"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink," is an old
saying that is not exactly true, because anybody that's ever been
around horses would know if the horse didn't want to go to water then
it wouldn't!!
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A
dog may be man's best friend...But the horse wrote history.
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Lessons From Your Horse:
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When you're tense, let me teach you
that there are lions in the woods, and we need to leave. NOW!!
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When you're short tempered, let me
teach you how to slog around the pasture for an hour before you
catch me.
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When you're short-sighted, let me
teach you to figure out where, exactly, in 40 acres I'm hiding.
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When you're quick to react, let me
teach you that herbivores kick much faster than omnivores.
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When you're worried, let me
entertain you with my mystery lameness.
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When you feel superior, let me teach
you that mostly, you're the maid service.
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When you're self-absorbed, let me
teach you to pay attention!! (I told you about those lions in the
woods...)
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When you're arrogant, let me teach
you what 1,200 pounds of yahoo-let's-go! speed event horse can do
when suitably inspired.
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When you're lonely, let me be your
companion. Let's do lunch. Also breakfast, dinner, and snacks.
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When you're tired, don't forget the
600 pounds of grain that need to be unloaded.
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When you're feeling financially
secure, let me teach you the meaning of "veterinary services,
additional."
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In
training horses, one trains himself
- Antoine De Pluvinet
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A
horse is like a violin, first it must be tuned, and when tuned it must
be accurately played.
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Riders who force their horses by the use of the whip only increase
their fear for they then associate the pain with the thing that
frightens them.
- Xenophon
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Heels down and head up, knees down and Heart up, Ankles close to your
horse's side, elbows close to your own.
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A
horse is an animal not a machine and is only as good as it's rider.
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Riding is not a sport, it is a passion. If you do not share the
passion, you do not know the sport, and therefore are wasting your
time.
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Horses comment on a car -"150 horsepower, big deal. I'd be impressed
if it ran on hay."
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Whoever said that money cannot buy happiness didn't know where to buy
a horse.
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People talk about size, shape, quarters, blood, bone, muscle, but for
my part, give me a hunter with brains: he has to take care of the
biggest fool of the two and think for both.
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There is nothing like a rattling ride for curing melancholy!
- Pared
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Good horses make short miles.
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Horse sense - something that horses have that stops them betting on
humans.
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Jumping: It's just doing flat-work in the air.
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When riding a horse we leave our fear, troubles, and sadness behind on
the ground.
- Juli Carlson
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Never drink down-stream from your horse!
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Jumping is just dressage with speed bumps!
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And on the seventh day ... god went riding!
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As
the wind swept over the saddle, it turned to a mixture of bright
colors and painted the world.
- Ronan Warriors
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Riding a Shire is like a moving sofa!!!
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Be
wary of the horse with a sense of humor.
- Pam Brown
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The Surgeon General said nothing about SMOKING THE COMPETITION!!
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... you rise and fall with the leg by the wall ...
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Here is one little girl who would rather clean a stall than her own
room...
Here is one little girl who would rather wear chaps than a party
dress...
Here is one little girl who would rather go to the barn than the
mall...
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After God, we owe it to the horses.
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Each leg in it's gallop seems to stream with a rush of speed as though
from a bucket of water poured o'er the field.
- Arabian Poet
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Bread may feed my body, but my horse feeds my soul.
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When to see a horse you think low intelligence, to see a man high
intelligence, but to mix to make a friendship you seem to get greater
intelligence
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Horses give us the wings we lack.
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I
was lying, bolstered up in bed, reading, when I heard a rush of flying
feet, and in an instant, with a loud joyful neigh, she checked herself
in front of my window. And when the nurse lifted the sash, the
beautiful creature thrust her head through the aperture, and rubbed
her nose against my shoulder like a dog. I am not ashamed to say that
I put both arms around her neck, and, burying my face in her mane,
kissed her again and again.
Wounded, weak and
away from home, with only strangers to wait upon me, and scant service
at that, the affection of this lovely creature for me, so tender and
touching, seemed almost human, and my heart went out to her beyond any
power of expression, as to the only being, of all the thousands around
me, who thought of me and loved me.
- WHH Murray - A Ride with a mad horse in a freight car
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Amazingly fast, incredibly strong, tirelessly proud, fantastically
gentle, he is a huge dark beast that touches the hearts of all who
meet him.
He has known joy and
violence. Felt the warmth of children and th cruelty of abuse. He has
nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He
has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums.
He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment.
And nothing could
break his spirit-or his great love.
This is HIS life.
He is called the
horse
- Anna Sewell
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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It
is easier to attach reins to a freight train and practice pulling to a
halt than it is to slow down some of our horses.
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Do
not underestimate a horse's pride, or he will dent yours.
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Got my horse, got my dog, don't need no cowboy!
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If
horses were wishes, We'd all own stables!
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A
camel is a horse designed by a committee.
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A
horse has so docile a nature that he would always rather do right then
wrong, if only he could be taught to distinguish one from the other.
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My
horse is even politer than anyone could imagine, he lets me run the
cross-country, dressage and the show jumping before he even thinks
about doing it him self!
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Farriers are like cats. They don't like to go out in the rain and they
don't come when you call them.
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For the wonderful brain of man
However mighty its force
Had never achieved its lordly plan
Without the aid of a horse.
- Ella Wilcox
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If
God had intended man to walk, he would have given him four legs.
Instead, he gave him two-one to put on either side of a horse.
- Montana Rancher
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Before I loved horses I had nothing to live for, Now I love horses and
can't stop seeing things to live for. God bless the Creature that is
so noble they make me feel ALIVE!!
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Yes! I hugged my horse today!!!
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I
love Fast Horses and Good Women Lord, so let me live my life with
them. And when I die let my hide be made into a Ladies riding Saddle
that I may be between them evermore!!!
- Cowboys Prayer
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The history of mankind is carried on the back of the horse.
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No
heaven can heaven be, if a horse isn't there to welcome me.
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
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There are no problem horses, just problem riders.
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I
understand that sense of loss... I can still hardly bare the emptiness
and the thought of perhaps a trust betrayed, I should be looking after
her now. All those wonderful adventures and hours of forgetfulness
along muddy tracks and into deeper woods. All I have left are memories
of a sense of gentle power kindly lent to me and whole days
disappearing as I groomed and fussed. I pray she is alright, and I can
still conjure her up with a pencil and paintbrush...
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What has two ears, four legs, and a frog? - A Horse!
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When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm
fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?
- George RuppHorses symbolize the personal drive for freedom
shared by people of all nations.
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The horse through all its trials has preserved the sweetness of
paradise in its blood.
- Johannes Jensen
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When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever
have.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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Stay away from a horse long enough and you'll start tapping your
fingers in the beat of a post trot.
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A
horse in the wind - a perfect symphony.
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In
teaching a horse it is a system of rewards and consequences, you
reward or "praise" your horse when they have done what you have asked,
and when they don't you give them consequences, but what you must
always remember, no matter how angry you are, is that the rewards
teach the horse, not the consequences.
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Give me food and drink; and care for me. And when the day's work is
done, shelter me. Give me a clean bed and leave me not too small a
place in the stable. Talk to me, for your voice often takes the place
of reins; be good to me and I shall serve you more gladly and love
you.
Don't tear at the
reins. Don't reach for your crop when we come to a hill; don't beat me
or hit me if I misunderstand. Don't think me disobedient if I fail
your will; perhaps there is something wrong with my harness or my
hooves. A bad tooth-you know how that hurts. Don't tether me too tight
and don't crop my tail, my only weapon against mosquitoes and flies.
Let me ask this of you in the name of Him who was born in the stable.
And when the time comes, Dear Master, when I am no longer of use to
you, don't let me starve, or freeze, nor sell me. Don't give me to a
stranger who works me slowly to death and feeds me not; but be kind
and prepare me for a quick and merciful end. God will reward you for
it, now, and through eternity. And I shall come to you, always......
running.
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to buy a
horse.
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They can turn on a dime and toss you back nine cents change, the
American Quarter Horse.
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On
the first day god created horses, and on the second day he painted the
good ones.
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You can have my boyfriend, But stay away from my horse.
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To
ride is to take occasional trips into the dirt...
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A
horse's magnificence is in his strength of heart. With flowing tail
and flying main, Wide nostrils, never stretched by pain, Mouths
bloodless to the bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, A
thousand horses - the wild - the free Like waves that follow o'er the
sea, Came thickly thundering on.
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Drumming hooves, quiet ground... nature's song of joy.
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O,
for a morning in May... filled with the beauty of horses, soft with
light of heaven.
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A
horse carries a certain goodness, an inner light from which beauty
flows.
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All I need to know in life I learned from my horse - Vol. 3
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Leather and chains can make anyone
look studly.
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Cold bathes are a form of cruel and
unusual punishment.
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You've got horse sense. Use it!
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If god meant you to be incased in
metal, He would've made you a Sherman Tank.
-
If someone's constantly on your
back, lie down and play dead, or run like heck.
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Happiness is a warm, fuzzy blanket
and someone to share it with.
-
Who needs nuclear power when you've
got natural gas?
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All I need to know in life I learned from my horse - Vol. 2
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Eat plenty of roughage.
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Great legs and a nice rear will get
you anywhere in life. Big, brown eyes help too.
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When you want your way, stomp hard
on the nearest foot.
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In times of crises, take a poop.
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Act dumb when faced with a task you
don't want to do.
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Follow the herd, that way you can't
be singled out to take the blame.
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A swift kick in the butt will get
anyone's attention.
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Love those who love you back,
especially if they have something good to eat.
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All I need to know in life I leaned from my horse - Vol. 1
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When in doubt, run far, far away.
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You can never have too many treats.
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Passing gas in public is nothing to
be ashamed of.
-
New shoes are an absolute necessity
every 6 weeks.
-
Ignore cues, they're just another
prompt to do more work.
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Everyone loves a good, wet, slobbery
kiss.
-
Never run when you can jog.
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Never jog when you can walk.
-
And never walk when you can stand
still.
-
Heaven is eating at least 10 hours a
day...and then sleeping the rest.
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PLEASE don't feed fingers to the horses.
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Riding isn't the matter of life or death. It's more important than
that!
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Nothing is more sacred as the bond between horse and rider...no other
creature can ever become so emotionally close to a human as a horse.
When a horse dies, the memory lives on because an enormous part of his
owner's heart, soul, very existence dies also...but that can never be
laid to rest, it is not meant to be...
- Stephanie M Thorn
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There is something about the sight of a fallen horse that strikes
one's heart in such a way, even for those who are not particularly a
horse lover...the significance of something so sacred, powerful,
beautiful, intoxicating as the horse...when a fallen horse is seen
overcome by life's obstacles, fallen tears and a jolt to the heart and
soul can never be prevented...
- Stephanie M Thorn
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What the horse does under compulsion...is done without
understanding...and there is no beauty in it.
- Xenophon
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Why go over this jump when there is a perfectly good path around it?
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A
penny saved is a penny you can spend no your next horse.
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Do
unto your horse as you would have your horse do unto you.
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You can lead a horse to water but you can't stop him from rolling in
it.
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If
you don't know where you're going, the horse will decide for you.
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In
tug-of-war, the dumber animal always wins.
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Without a horse, you're half complete.
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My
new horse was sold to me as a real gentleman to ride. He is, when we
have to go over a fence he insists on ladies first!!!
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Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly!
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I
am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so
beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
- John Galsworthy
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Closeness, friendship, affection: keeping your own horse means all
these things.
- Bertrand Leclair
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Without the horse what would have become of man? It has served us for
transport, in agriculture, industry since the dawn of time.
- Bertrand Leclair
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No
one who longs for the "good old days" sighs for the passing of the
working horse, Not if he or she loves horses.
- Marion C. Garrety
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The eternal and wonderful sight of horses at liberty is magical to
watch.
- Bertrand Leclair
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Silence takes on a new quality when the only sound is that of regular
and smooth hoof beats....
- Bertrand Leclair
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The symbol of wide open spaces and freedom, synonymous with nature is
a mechanized world, the horse ... feeds our imagination.
- Bertrand Leclair
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Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardization of life, but
horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race ...
- William Fawcett
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The delicate and exquisite horse is itself a work of art.
- Bertrand Leclair
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... the horse has been, of all animals, man's most constant companion
in work and leisure.
- From Horses
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We
dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute
strength.
- Monica Dickens
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And He shall come in, riding a white horse...
- Revelations
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The horse stopped with a jerk, and the jerk fell off
- Jim Culleton
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|
Just knowing we have both learnt something when I have finished riding
is enough for me!
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Horseback riding is life, the rest is just details.
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The most wonderful about riding is getting off and knowing you've both
enjoyed.
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You don't have to go to the stables and ride EVERY day, just the ones
that end in "y"
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Manure Happens.
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|
Definition of a horse: A beast that bites at one end; kicks at the
other; and is slippery in the middle.
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Don't count your ribbons before the show starts.
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A
pair of boots and chaps do not make you a rider.
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When the Lord maketh a horse to lie down in green pastures, you better
get out of the way.
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Even the greenest horse has something to teach the wisest rider.
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Nothing on four legs is quicker than a horse heading back to the barn.
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If
there is a more beautiful creature on earth not one person has seen or
heard of it.
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Woman have Horses because there are so few good men around.
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You show me someone that doesn't like horses and I'll show you someone
who can't ride.
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I
don't care who tells me to, I'm not going to die until someone proves
to me that there are horses in Heaven.
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I
have often been asked why do I like horses so much. Look into one's
eyes. There you will see generations of horses who have served the
human for thousands of years faithfully for nothing in return, beaten
horses, starved hoses, horses who no longer posses a sprit. They
deserve to be loved and respected as much as humanly possible. Let
them run free again. Let them no longer be a faithful beast, but
embrace them as you would a dear friend, for they are.
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Who among us has not as a child asked Santa Clause to bring us a pony
on Christmas day?
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If
I had a dime for every time that I thought of a horse's beauty I'd
have enough to buy one.
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I
have seen things so beautiful they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet,
none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running
free.
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Horse people are stable people.
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Riding is really pretty easy. All you have to do is sit straight, look
up, carry your hands, put your heels down, squeeze in your leg, keep
your chin up, your butt back, and LOOK GOOD DOING IT!!!!!!!!!!!
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When you can recite the name of every horse at the riding school where
you ride in alphabetical order-backwards and forwards, then you know
that you are truly horse-mad!
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That horse goes so quietly he doesn't even leave footprints!
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Adults - When you can no longer bend down to touch your toes whilst
trotting, it is then you begin to realize you are not quite as
youthful as you think!
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But there is one rule inviolably observed above all others; that is,
never approach a horse in a passion; for anger never thinks of
consequences, and forces us to do what we afterwards repent.
- Xenophon
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Most persons do not ride; they are conveyed.
- M.F. McTaggart
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In
training there is always the tendency to proceed too rapidly, go
slowly with careful, cautious steps. Make frequent demands; be content
with little; be lavish in rewards.
- General Faverot de Kerbrech
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The only approbation a rider should covet is that of his horse.
- E. Beudant
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Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the
horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want,
or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience
must find the answer.
- Alois Podhajsky
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The horse thinks one thing and he who saddles him another.
- Benjamin Franklin
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When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I
want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.
- Emir Abd-el-Kader
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Unless you are the lead horse the view is always the same.
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The world is best viewed through the ears of a horse.
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If
the riders nuts the horses bolts.
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All horseback riding is great until you go to a $40 show for a 75c
ribbon.
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When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many
different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands
holding them.
- Monte Roberts
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Definition: Gallop - The customary gait a horse chooses when returning
to the stable.
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Definition: Equitation - The ability to keep a smile on your face and
proper posture while your horse tries to crowhop, shy and buck his way
around a show ring.
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Definition: Colt - What your mare always gives you when you want a
filly.
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At
least when my horse loses a shoe I don't have to buy four new ones.
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Horses love carrots. Does that make them really big rabbits?
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My
horse rolls in the mud in order to test my ability to get him clean
without getting him wet...
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If
my horse runs and plays with the other horses in the pasture but comes
limping up to me...does that mean I'm being taken for a sucker?
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He
knows when you are happy, he knows when you are proud, he also knows
when you have a carrot.
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The Way to Heaven is on Horseback.
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Heads up, Heels down.
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Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
- Elizabeth Taylor
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Oats A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in
Scotland supports the people.
- Dictionary of the English Language
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They say he rides like part of the horse, but they don't say which
part.
- Filmgoer's Companion 1965
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It
doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it
in the street and frighten the horses.
- D Fielding Duchess of Jermyn Street
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Gelding = Taking the stallions mind off ass and putting it on grass.
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Where would a rider be without a horse?
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The hardest thing to do gracefully, is to get down off your high
horse!
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Many Mares were taught to stop to the sound of a bugle. There were all
quite smart, beautiful in every way and spirited. They were then put
into a hot barn. . .and left. They were starved, and in dire need of
drink. They were then released in a rolling green pasture with a large
lake. They all galloped, mane and tail flying, sleek body's with
glossy coats. Then the trumpets blew. The obedient ones stopped. .
.the others continued. . . The ones who halted on command were treated
lavishly and became the foundation mares to the most elegant breed of
all time, that of the Arabian. You can find traces of these devoted
horses in every Arabian out there, you just have to take the time to
listen to their story. . . Let then whisper in your ear, and breathe
on your heart, you will never regret it.
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If
you want a stable friendship, get a horse!
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Your horse probably won't go too far without you if there is some
tasty grass around - remember to keep some handy if you anticipate
falling off.
- The Horse Illustrated Guide to English Riding
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There comes a point in every rider's life when he wonders if it's all
worth it. Then one look at the horse, and he realizes - it is.
- Kelly Stewart
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There comes a point in every rider's life when he has to sit back and
wonder, Am I Nuts??
- Kelly Stewart
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A
bad ride is much better than a good walk.
- Peter Grace
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A
little neglect may breed mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was
lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the
rider was lost; for was of a rider the battle was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Horses can't talk but they can speak if you listen.
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If
your on the horse's neck you not on the horse for long.
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Don't corner a frightened horse unless you know what to do with him.
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He
who needs a mounting block had better not fall off in the middle of
the field.
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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that
makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event
it's a thing I need.
- William Faulkner
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Give a horse what he needs and he will give you his heart in return.
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...only ask, and he will weave a spell to light the dark recesses of
your being, spinning around you a web of sweet delights. He will be
your children's playmate; a child himself, he'll do no harm. He'll
pardon like no other your omissions, errors, thoughtless handling. His
back, a throne of feathers, will bear you smoothly at the trot and
gallop. He'll go where others dare not. He'll stand firm where others
flee in terror. You'll discover that the pirouette is easy, that a
rein back can go on forever, that you need not be a great rider to
perform airs above the ground. At the spur's light touch he'll take
flight with the wind, bearing you safely through the air laden with
long forgotten fragrance. With him, the distant mountains will be
clearer, brighter the light of the stars, the trilling of the
nightingale more joyful, sweeter the gurgling of the streams. And at
last you'll understand why he was e'er the chosen one of kings.
- Juan Llamas of the Spanish horse {Andalusian}
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Dance above ground, never descending. Grace incarnate. Passion on
hooves.
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The only reason you don't like Saddlebreds is because your not good
enough to ride one.
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Horses are the most agreeable friends. They ask no questions, they
pass no criticisms.
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The love of horses knows not it's own depth till the hour of
separation.
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A
well trained horse isn't less exciting than a wild one.
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A
horse who puts on a show in the dressage ring and strives to get
through cross country and only knocks down one rail in stadium is more
deserving of a break when he gets home than the horse who got
first....only because he's worked harder for that trip around the
course.
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People always say that the view is better from the top of you
horse....I say it's better just being with your horse.
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Riding is for those people who see not a horse but a spirit next to
them.
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One who believes that he has conquered the art of riding, has not yet
begun to master the art of dressage.
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One who believes that he has mastered the art of horsemanship, has not
yet begun to understand the horse.
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One white foot buy it, two white feet try it, three white feet shy it,
four white feet fry it.
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Life is too short for a bad horse, bad dog, or bad man (woman).
|
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Compare a hose to a cat - the difference is that a horse is useful.
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A
person that has a dog or cat has a companion. A person that has a
horse has a treasure in there hart and a sparkle in there eyes and
more love than the whole world.
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To
ride or not to ride, This is a stupid question
- Brandy Michelle
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If
a man treats his wife like a thoroughbred, she'll never grow into an
old nag!
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Arabians: A little bit of everything perfect
- Amanda Ferber
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Like human beings, horses are all individuals with singular
personalities, their own virtues and their own faults. We become bound
to them for their beauty, their eccentricities, their heart and the
love they so often return to us.
- Lana Slaton
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Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world
where the horses own the people.
- Art Buchwald
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A
young trooper should have an old horse.
- H.G. Bohn
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Let the best horse leap the hedge first.
- Thomas Fuller
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You can take an old mule and run him and feed him and train him and
get him in the best shape of his life, but you ain't going to win the
Kentucky Derby!
- Pepper Martin
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Who buys a horse buys care.
- Spanish proverb
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No
one can teach riding so well as a horse.
- C.S. Lewis
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Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse.
- Danish proverb
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The hooves of a horse! Oh! Witching and sweet is the music earth
steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of
bird, can stir me as hooves of the horse have stirred.
- Will H. Ogilvie
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A
bad day riding is better than a good day fishing
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Breed the best to the best and hope for the best.
- Breeder's axiom
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If
the horse does not enjoy his work, his rider will have no joy.
- H.H. Isenbart
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A
well-bred foal brings joy to the stable
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There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel
better off.
- Herbert V. Prochnow
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We
tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them
in a horse.
- W.R. Inge
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What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age.
- French proverb
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One must plow with the horses one has.
- German proverb
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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian
classes and the neurotic classes.
- George Bernard Shaw
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If
one induces the horse to assume that carriage which it would adopt of
its own accord when displaying its beauty, then one directs the horse
to appear joyous and magnificent, proud and remarkable for having been
ridden.
- Xenophon
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Horses have as much individuality and character as people.
- C.W. Anderson
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The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experience go slowly.
- Russian proverb
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Set your sights after the last fence.
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A
fly, sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is
but an insect, and the other a horse still.
- Samuel Johnson
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The day you put off vaccinations is the day your horse will be
exposed.
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A
good horse is never a bad color.
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A
horse in hand is worth a herd in the hills.
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I
pray the gentle hands may guide my feet; I ask for kind commands from
voices sweet; At night a stable warm with scented hay, where, safe
from every harm, I'll sleep till day.
- Pony's prayer
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As
old wood is best to burn; old horses to ride; old books to read; old
wine to drink; so are old friends most trusty to use.
- Leonard Wright
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If
you look at the ground, you'll end up on the ground
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One can't shoe a running horse.
- Dutch proverb
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now
the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
- Mathew Arnold
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Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly
equestrianism
- Henning Eichberg
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|
For the wonderful brain of man, however mighty its force, had never
achieved its lordly plan without the aid of the horse.
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The devil doesn't dare entering in a camp guarded by an arabian horse.
- Arabian proverb
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Use your head, not your spurs.
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Ask, Insist, Order
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Raise your horse as a son, ride him as an enemy.
- Arabian proverb
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Ask often, be content of little, reward always.
- Nuno Oliveira
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Put some excitement between your legs; ride a horse.
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There is no moment in life as memorable as being upon a horses back!
|
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To
understand the soul of a horse is the closest we humans can come to
knowing perfection.
|
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To
be a horse, or not to be a horse, that is the question?
|
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My
husband says if I spend one more weekend at a horse-show, he'll leave
me. Darn - I'll miss him!
|
|
Three-day Eventing ...... grueling test of elegance, skill, and
endurance that makes both horse and rider appreciate the fourth day!
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The more I meet men the better my horse looks.
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Darkness comes on Stallion legs. Swift Black Rippling I ride.
- Susan-Louise Johnson
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Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyways.
- John Wayne
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Horses want one place rubbed, themselves.
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The warmest feeling arrives when you know the horse you love is all
cosy and snug, and it's all because of you.
- Fiona-Louise Miller
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There ain't a horse that can't be rode; there ain't a man that can't
be throwed.
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Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride.
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The hooves of a horse! Oh! Witching and sweet is the music earth
steals from the iron-shod feet, No whisper of love, no trilling of
bird, could stir me as hooves of the horse have stirred!
- Robert H. Ogilive
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Feeling down? Saddle up, Its the only cure.
|
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My
horse is so pessimistic that whenever we vote on a subject, his answer
is always neigh!
|
|
One must think when looking at a horse in motion, that it hears music
inside its head.
|
|
They told me that when I bought a horse I would meet lots of new
people. I did, and everyone of them is holding out their hands for
money - the farrier, the saddler, the vet etc.
|
|
Your horse's behavior always seems to depend on the number of people
watching you.
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|
God held a handful of ash, blew into it saying "Let it be the purest
of creatures." Out of His hand galloped the black horse.
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Keep one leg on one side, the other leg on the other side, and your
mind in the middle.
- Henry Taylor
|
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One must plow with the horses one has.
- German Proverb
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|
Soft grass for an old horse.
- Bulgarian Proverb
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|
A
horse shoe that clatters needs a nail.
- Spanish Proverb
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Once a horse is born someone will be found to ride it.
- Hebrew Proverb
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|
I
never play horseshoes 'cause Mother taught us not to throw our clothes
around.
- Mr.Ed
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The wind flew. God told to wind to condense itself and out of the
flurry came the horse. But with the spark of sprit the horse flew by
the wind itself.
- Margruite Henry's King of the wind
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Champing his foam, and bounding o'er the plain Arch his high neck, and
graceful spread his mane.
- Sir R.Blackmore
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A
horse in the stable is worth two in the pasture.
|
|
The horse is such a marvelous frustration. What other creature would
go into a freshly bedded box, with a rack full of the finest hay, and
promptly set about devouring her straw?
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The more I know about men, the more I love my horse.
|
|
I
used to have money, now I have horses.
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|
I
ride. Therefore I am.
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At
its finest, rider and horse are joined not by tack but by trust. Each
is totally reliant upon the other..... Each is the selfless guardian
of the others very well being.
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If
you ever hear a horse laugh, you'll laugh with amazement.
|
|
I
use to have a handle on the reigns of life and the reigns of a horse,
but then I fell of both.
|
|
In
the trojan horse story man entered and touched the inside of a horse,
but to see a horse in high spirits is to have the horse enter and
touch the inside of a man.
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The Horse's Prayer - I'm only a horse, dear Master, but my heart is
warm and true, And I'm ready to work my hardest, for the pleasure of
pleasing you. Good corn, and hay, and water, are all that I wish to
ask. And a warm dry bed to rest on, when I've finished my daily task.
Don't strike me in needless anger if I'm slow to understand, But
encourage my drooping spirits with a gentle voice and hand. Finally, O
my master! When my health and strength are gone-When I'm getting old
and feeble, and my long life's work is done-Don't sell me to cruel
owners, to be slaved to my latest breath, But grant me the untold
blessing of a quick and painless death; That, as you have always found
me a patient and loyal friend, The years of my faithful service may be
crowned by a peaceful end. I plead in the name of the Savoir, Who
cares when the sparrows fall. Who was born in a lowly stable, and
knows, and loves us all!
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As
his ungrateful rider whips and spurs, the horse thinks an important
warning, "I can run faster without you!"
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Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.
- D. H. Lawrence
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|
The trot is the foundation of the gallop.
- Richard Berenger
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|
The horse! The horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of
movement, of action, in man.
- D. H. Lawrence
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|
He
that would venture nothing must not get on horseback.
- Spanish proverb
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|
He
flung himself on his horses and rode off madly in all directions.
- Stephen Butler Leacock
|
|
The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do
right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the
other.
- George Melville
|
|
What a piece of work is a horse! Hoe noble in reasons! How infinite in
faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how
like an angel! In apprehension how like a man! The beauty of the
world! The paragon of animals!
- James Agate
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|
...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.
- Rachel Field
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|
Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me
around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a
blunder. Would that his master could say the same.
- John Tyler's epitaph for his horse
|
|
The horse loves his oats more than his saddle.
- Russian proverb
|
|
A
little neglect may breed mischief, for want of a nail the shoe was
lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse
the rider was lost...
- Benjamin Franklin
|
|
A
horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
- Richard III - William Shakespeare
|
|
Many say and I agree, That only God could make a tree, But before God
made a tree it's said, His mind was on the thoroughbred.
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Lead, Follow or stay in the barn.
|
|
There are times when you can trust a horse, times when you can't, and
times when you have to.
|
|
You know you are going really fast when you are galloping the same way
as the wind is blowing, yet there is wind in your ears.
- Larry
|
|
You can have a man, a woman, a dog or a cow and you will still dream
for the horse. Of course, money/fame come a close second.
- Magic Pony
|
|
Ask me to show you poetry in motion, and I will show you a horse.
|
|
If
I had a horse, I'd ride off in the sunset, where dreams, and shadows
lie. To a life, where pain and sorrow don't exist, and to where hopes,
and dreams become reality.
- Lindsay Turcotte
|
|
If
your horse doesn't care, you shouldn't either.
- Linsy Lee
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|
On
horseback you could ride through the cattle and they would pay no
attention. But the minute you dismount, you becomes a threat.
- David J Myers
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|
I
took to the life of a cowboy like a horse takes to oats.
- Clinton McCoy
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|
It
is wonderful when one is out with these animals, how attached they
become. There are times when I would walk up to my horse, that he
would nicker in a low tone and run his nose against me in a very
knowing manner.
- HS Young
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A
cowboy is a man with guts and a horse.
- Will James
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|
Dressage riding comprises many skills, several of which are acquired
by jumping and riding cross-country, or on trails.
- Charles de Kunffy
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|
It
is the best of lessons if the horse gets a season of repose whenever
he has behaved to his rider's satisfaction.
- Xenophon - The Art of Horsemanship
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|
If, however, you reward him with kindness after he has done as you
wish, and punish him when he disobeys, he will be most likely to learn
to obey as he ought.
- Xenophon - The Art of Horsemanship
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|
You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud,
pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket of
incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and
dogs.
- Helen Thompson
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|
If
your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the
question wrong.
- Pat Parelli
|
|
If
you start getting nervous about getting hurt you will be....If you are
worrying about the danger it's time to give up.
- Jason Weaver (jockey)
|
|
Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and
War.
- Rudyard Kipling
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|
He
knows when you're happy. He knows when you're comfortable. He knows
when you're confident ... and he ALWAYS knows when you have carrots.
|
|
Your horse loves you; not for your looks, but for your love! (and
food!)
|
|
My
horses are my friends, not my slaves.
- Reiner Klimke
|
|
There are fools, damn fools, and those who remount in a steeplechase.
- Bill Whitbread
|
|
I
love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane.
I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.
- James Whitcomb Riley
|
|
All I pay my psychiatrist is cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to
me any day!
|
|
I'd rather be dumped by a horse than dumped by a man!
|
|
Both a horse and a man have something in common, both dump you, though
generally you get over the horse's dumping first.
|
|
To
Ride Or Not To Ride?....What A Stupid Question!
|
|
If
wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
|
|
It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!
- The Horse Whisperer
|
|
And indeed, a horse who bears himself proudly is a thing of such
beauty and astonishment that he attracts the eyes of all beholders; no
one will tire of looking at him as long as he will display himself in
his splendor.
- Xenophon
|
|
Spring and summer are riding on a piebald mare.
- Russian Proverb
|
|
A
pony is a childhood dream, A horse is an adulthood treasure.
- Rebecca Carroll
|
|
DRESSAGE, n.: the passionate pursuit of perfection by the obsessively
imperfect.
|
|
One can get in a car and see what MAN has made, one must get on a
horse to see what GOD has made.
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|
We
gaze upon their quiet beauty, their natural elegance, and we are
captivated. They see us softly, in gentle light... rewarding human
companionship with strength, grace and intelligence. As they run
through arenas and open fields, past mountains and seas, moving like
the wind toward heaven, we travel with them, if only in our hearts.
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|
As
a horse runs, think of it as a game of tag with the wind.
- Tre Tuberville
|
|
A
horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves-strong,
powerful, beautiful-and it has the capability of giving us escape from
our mundane existence.
- Pam Brown
|
|
Fierce as the fire and fleet as the wind...
- A.L. Gordon
|
|
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact
with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire.
- Sharon Ralls Lemon
|
|
The old mare watched the tractor work. A thing of rubber and steel,
Ready to follow the slightest wish Of the man who held the wheel. She
said to herself as it passed by, You gave me an awful jolt. But
there's still one thing you cannot do, You cannot raise a colt.
|
|
When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm
fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?
- George Rupp, pioneer breeder of Belgian horses
|
|
The horses prance and paw and neigh, Fillies and colts like kittens
play...
- Oliver W. Homes
|
|
To
many, the words love, hope and dreams are synonymous with horses.
|
|
He
has galloped through young girl's dreams, added richness to grown
women's lives, and served men in war and strife.
- Toni Robinson
|
|
And God took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it and
created the horse.
- Bedouin Legend
|
|
To
me, horses and freedom are synonymous.
- Veryl Goodnight
|
|
A
good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the
world can make him.
- Lord Herbert
|
|
The horse, with beauty unsurpassed, strength immeasurable, and grace
unlike any other, still remains humble enough to carry a man upon his
back.
- Amber Senti
|
|
The Horse. Here is nobility without conceit, Friendship without envy,
Beauty without vanity. A willing servant, yet no slave
- Ronald Duncan
|
|
Kissed by sunlight, embraced by open fields. The horse is the center
of all beautiful things.
|
|
The horse will leap over trenches, will jump out of them, will do
anything else, provided one grants him praise and respite after his
accomplishment.
- Xenophon
|
|
To
err is human, to whinney equine.
- Cheryl Farner
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Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddam
horse. A horse is at least human, for godsake.
- JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
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My
dear, I don't care what they do, so long as they don't do it in the
streets and frighten the horses.
- Attributed to Mrs. Patrick Campbell
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Experienced riders are not prone to brag. And usually newcomers, if
they start out being boastful, end up modest.
- C.J.J. Mullen
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If
training has not made a horse more beautiful, nobler in carriage, more
attentive in his behavior, revealing pleasure in his own
accomplishment...then he has not truly been schooled in dressage.
- Col. Handler
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On
horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least
four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse
soothingly on the neck.
- Saki
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A
horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider
into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.
- Duke of Edinburgh
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To
learn all that a horse could teach, was a world of knowledge, but only
a beginning... Look into a horses eye and you instantly know if you
can trust him.
- Mary O'Hara
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The one best precept-the golden rule in dealing with a horse-is never
to approach him angrily. Anger is so devoid of forethought that it
will often drive a man to do things which in a calmer mood he will
regret.
- Xenophon
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I
heard a neigh, Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very
heart leaped with the sound.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The horse is a creature who sacrifices his own being to exist through
the will of another...he is the noble conquest of man.
- Buffon
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All the treasures of this earth lie between thine eyes. Thou shalt
cast Mine enemies beneath thy hooves...This shall be the seat from
whence prayers rise unto me.
- The Koran
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...he did not feel the ground under his feet...he thrust himself into
the capriole, rose high in the air...forelegs and hindlegs horizontal.
He soared above the ground, his head high in jubilation. Conquering!
- Felix Salten
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My
horse has a hoof of striped agate; His fetlock is like fine eagle
plume. His legs are like quick lightening. My horse has a tail like a
trailing black cloud. His mane is made of short rainbows. My horse's
eyes are made of big stars.
- Navajo war god's horse song
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Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism
to civilization we will find the hoof print of the horse beside it.
- John Trotwood Moore
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When God created the earth, the horse's destiny was an Eden of marshes
and swamps-a paradise of fragrance, sound and color-inhabited by the
most exotic of plants and creatures. However, here all was not
peaceful. Mares and foals were prayed upon by saber-toothed tigers and
other mighty hunters, including man who in the eye of the herd
stallion aroused both fear and anger. As he grew in size and evolved
from an eater of leaves to one of grass, the horse's legs became tall
and strong enough to carry him out of the low wetlands and onto the
steppes. Here, his new speed allowed him to survive in a world of
predators, among the most savage and dangerous of which was man. At
what time in prehistory the eye of some human saw horses as something
other than food and clothing, we do not know. But fortunately for both
man and beast it did occur in an adventure that would permanently and
dramatically alter the history of the planet. The youth's eyes were
then on the filly foal and on it alone. With her capture the story of
mankind would change in an instant and forever.
- Trajan Tennent
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If
you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no
cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you on a
comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back
like a fireside chair... when I can't ride anymore, I shall still keep
horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and a wheelbarrow.
When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of
the field where my horses graze, and watch them.
- Monica Dickens
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Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark
days of mourning-the faithful horse has been with us always.
- Elizabeth Cotton
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...This most noble beast is the most beautiful, the swiftest and of
the highest courage of domesticated animals. His long mane and tail
adorn and beautify him. He is of a fiery temperament, but good
tempered, obedient, docile and well-mannered.
- Pedro Garcia Conde
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Horses do change, you know; a lot of the...ponies really give the
able-bodies grooms a hard time, but if you put a disabled child or
adult on their back they're as gentle as lambs. I don't know what it
is: they seem to sense something.
- Jackie Croome
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A
horse can lend it's rider the speed and strength he or she lacks-but
the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan.
- Pam Brown
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The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought
home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible
contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'
- Pam Brown
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I
prefer a bike to a horse. The brakes are more easily checked.
- Lambert Jeffries
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A
horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
- Ian Fleming
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A
farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out
curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never
showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the
world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do
his work.
- Anthony Trollope
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Sell the cow, buy the sheep, but never be without the horse.
- Irish proverb
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If
the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle.
- Rita Mae Brown
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If
riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long
ago.
- George Morris
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The ability and intelligence is remarkable...Prince was able to walk
the length of the furrow, between the growing potatoes, and when he
was done you might never guess that he passed that way, so sure and
careful was every footfall.
- Paul Heiney
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She was not afraid, immediately. The sheer exhilaration of the horse's
speed thrilled her, but his strength was ominous. When she looked down
she saw his shoulders moving with the smooth rhythm of steam-pistons;
she saw his black, shining hoofs thrown out, thudding the hard turf,
and felt the great eagerness coming up through her own body. She knew
that she could never stop him, if he decided he did not want to stop.
she saw the hedge ahead of them, and the first stab of real fear
contracted her stomach. She gathered her reins up tight, and pulled
hard. It made no difference at all. 'Don't panic,' she thought, but
the panic was in her whether she wanted it or not.
- KM Peyton
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Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the
sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as
they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the
tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs-little sounds
of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.
- Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
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A
horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the
ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into
the open.
- Gerald Raferty
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A
good horse and a good rider are only so in mutual trust.
- HME
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An
extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm
correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.
- Christilot Hanson Boylen
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When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from
falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts
and starvation, he had lost what made him so beautiful and free....One
out of every three mustangs captured in south west Texas was expected
to die before they were tamed. The process often broke the spirits of
the other two.
- J Frank Dobi
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With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils, never stretched by
pain, Mouth bloodless to bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod,
And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod A thousand horses-the wild-the
free- Like waves that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering on.
- Lord Byron
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What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my
knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he
shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while
the wind beat in my face and whistled past my ears.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
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We
have been companions now for centuries. I rode you in the high
festival to the Parthenon and to the edges of the unknown world under
the Shadow of the Eagles. Together we re-took the Holy Places, endured
the horrors of the crossing to Crimea. You took me to adventure and to
love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand
at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom,
knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally beside me.
- Pam Brown
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No
hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle
- Winston Churchill
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Horses have never hurt anyone yet, except when they bet on them.
- Stuart Cloete
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Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning
stables.
- Monica Dickens
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I
can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my
art is not above the ordinary.
- Mark Twain
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...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too
numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.
- Josh Billings
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In
buying a horse or taking a wife, shut your eyes tight and commend
yourself to God.
- Tuscan Proverb
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That horse wasn't built to tread the earth, He took natural to the
air, And every time he went aloft, He tried to leave me there.
- Tribute to an Unmanageable Horse
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A
man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man
on foot.
- John Steinbeck
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Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with
thunder?
Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils
is terrible.
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to
meet the armed men.
He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, neither turneth he back
from the sword.
- JOB 39: 19-22
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Many people have sighed for the "good old days" and regretted the
"passing of the horse", but today, when only those who like horses own
them, it is a far better time for horses.
- C.W.Anderson
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.
- Yiddish Proverb
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It
is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.
- Mexican Proverb
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Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and
self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls-they
give us hope!
- Toni Robinson
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Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that
is beneath him
- Jelaluddin Rumi
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I
sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the
horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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He
is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never
appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts
him: he is indeed a horse: and all other jades you may call beasts.
- William Shakespeare. King Henry V.
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His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance
enforces homage. He is indeed a horse...
- William Shakespeare. King Henry V.
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When I bestride him, I soar. I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth
sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical
than the pipe of Hermes.
- William Shakespeare. King Henry V.
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He
doth nothing but talk of his horses.
- William Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice
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To
be loved by a horse, or by any animal, should fill us with awe - for
we have not deserved it.
- Marion Garretty
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The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child
who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking
out a stable.
- S. Armstrong
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In
grateful and reverent memory of the Empire's horses (some 375000) who
fell in the Great War (1914-1918). Most obediently, and often most
painfully, they died.
- Memorial at Church of St. Jude, London
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The horse is God's gift to mankind.
- Arabian Proverb
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A
horse is worth more than riches.
- Spanish Proverb
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They say that princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship.
The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince
as soon as his groom.
- Ben Johnson
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Thou shall be for Man a source of happiness and wealth; thy back shall
be a seat of honor, and thy belly of riches; every grain of barley
given thee shall purchase indulgence for the sinner.
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