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Category: horses
Ode to a long wet fart
A poem about a horse’s gas that almost turned into a colic but didn’t.
The Top 5 Things I’ve Learned in One Year of Owning an Off the Track Thoroughbred
The top five things I’ve learned in one year of owning an off the track Thoroughbred.
If horse ads were honest (using my horses)
I often see horse for sale ads that are, how shall we say… full of crap. My favorites are the ones reading, “He’s a unicorn! No vices! I have no idea why he’s still here!” Probably because pretty as he may be, he’s a dingus, Carol. Just be honest. As someone who has six horses, […]
Hondo Lane decided he was a First Field horse and so it was
Hondo Lane is too fabulous not to jump into first field at the fox hunt.
Fox hunting my endurance mare is getting more and more insane (but I still love it)
Did you know thoroughbreds have terrible feet? Well if you didn’t, they have terrible feet. The long of the short of it is, Hondo Lane is now in the middle of growing sole for his paper thin tootsies. It’s costing me hundreds to thousands in addition to my will to live, but those are the […]
Of course I fox hunted my green OTTB (Off the Track Thoroughbred), why wouldn’t I?
Older and wiser? Hell no. The benefit of being a young, inexperienced rider is a better ability to recover from injury likely incurred due to said inexperience. That’s why the young possess greater levels of bravado than those of us with brittle bones. But there is a sweet spot on the DoesStupidShit graph. That’s where […]
Fox hunting: my crazy horse lady origin story
How this crazy horse woman became so crazy: FOX HUNTING.
Yes I have six horses, but hear me out…
The reason I have six horses isn’t a good one but it’s my reason and I’m not going back. I can’t anyway, so might as well go all in.
How I used manifestation and the “Let Them” theory to complete my gelding’s first 50 mile Endurance ride
Let’s rewind for context. Ransom, my now 8 year old Arabian gelding, is a pistol. In 2023 we attempted two 50 mile rides and had to pull at 40 miles due to issues stemming from his temper tantrums thrown like a toddler when told he can’t have sugary cereal. At the first ride, Ransom spent […]