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- CoppiLane January 2021
- Danaerys December 2020
- EaglesFly19 January 2021
- FancyThat January 2021
- FeldingFields December 2020
- HunterUnderSaddleGirl January 2021
- Mystic rose December 2020
1 million HB giveaway
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Please write me a story! Although I kinda think having a "word minimum" is a bit rude of me... So I won't have one... But let me just say the longer the better please. Long enough to at least be a complete story. I will give 100k to everyone who rights a story, the day that they post it. However January 3rd 2021 I will choose a winner to give 1million Hb's to. Although I'm making the deadline a month away so that everyone has plenty of time, I'm kinda bored on the couch now.... Pretty please?
You can write anything you would like, but of course horses/scifi/fantasy are my favorites.
Some book recommendations would be fabulous too. And your preferred format for said book. (kindle, audible, paperback etc).
I normally do my choice for who "wins" but this time please use the "thanks" mechanism to vote. Tiebreakers will still be broken by me. Competitors please come back and "thanks" at least one of your competitors, although I hope that even people that aren't competing will vote.Breeder of any and all crazy colored drafts and RH horses.
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So this is the story of how I got my forever heart horse .
When I was 6 or 7 my mum decided she needed to try something new for me as I I had bad co ordination , I could cycle a bike but I couldn’t steer at the same time , I could steer but I couldn’t cycle , I kept crashing all the time because of it. So when I was around 7 I started riding lessons, my mum didn’t think I’d stick at it (whoops) ,so after a few lessons I fell in love with the horses , I had a total different connection to anything I’ve ever had. A few years went by and I was still having riding lessons up until I was 14 years old. I desperately wanted my own horse and it was the same answer all the time , if I wanted my own horse I was going to have to buy one myself with my own money. At the age of 14 I started working everyday doing Avon , dog walking , mainly 3 jobs a day. I managed to save enough money for a share after my mum and dad agreed because I could pay for it , so I was over the moon , i found a little Shetland/Dartmoor pony ,she was only 11h high and I’m small and light so it was fine , I tried her and she threw me off I knew she was the one , I brought her on and got her going , this was for a year and a half with this pony. Then at the age of 16 I found a horse to loan , 15-2 gelding who I liked but he was sassy, I had him for 6 months and he just got worse , wouldn’t let me put on the bridle or anything , he was awful . At this age I got a new job that paid me around £2000 per month and saved enough for a horse ! So after 10 years of begging my mum and being told I had to work for it , I saved enough and convinced her I was in love with the sport. So I went to view this mare , I didn’t want a mare , that was over 10 and I definitely didn’t want a bay, I viewed her and didn’t like her , I don’t know why. My mum said if I didn’t buy her I wasn’t buying a horse . So I did , I bought the horse and I didn’t know she’d be my absolute everything , she’s everything I didn’t want but she was everything I needed! She wasn’t long broken ( only 2 weeks) and had just had another foal. She was 11 at the time I got her . Now it’s coming up 3 years in January of me owning Esme and can honestly say she’s my heart horse , my everything , I can ride her without tack, I ride her in a hackamore as she doesn’t like bits , when I bought her she was bitted in a hanging cheek , and after a week of owning her I came off her twice , one where she dumped me in the forest , one when I got on her by a leg up and we both went in the ditch where she landed on top of me ! She bombed off twice with me so I put her in a gag, then a french link, then a loose ring snaffle ( all sweet iron because she likes it) then I got her to go well , soft and supple in a hackamore. My mare Esme owes me nothing , I couldn’t ask for a better mare, she’s the sweetest and she tries for you , I could put my grandma on her and she’d be a dope on a rope. I got her to jump 1.30 for the first time last year without a bridle , I’ve taken her to training nights but I don’t want to pressure her as I know she gets nervous , she won’t do anything bad , she just puffs her nostrils and heavy breathes and you can feel how nervous she is when you ride her so I’m not pressuring her to showjump at a competition. Esme is currently in foal to a Perlino Tobiano and due in May , I can’t wait to have another like her , she’s the best my I’ve owned , the best first horse I could ask for and my best friend for life. It just shows you you really can find a diamond in the rough , she was skinny and wasn’t looked after well and now she’s stunning , my absolute world , so much love for her. Thanks to her , I’ve had the confidence to work two international show jumpers, and had the privilege to back youngsters and bring them on for clients and customers, some have sold to Germany for 10k+ .
I now have another mare called Rumour , when I broke her in she would rear constantly , to get on her you needed 3 people to hold her down by the noseband , now she’s an angel , I knew there was that spark I have with my other mare so I bought her after breaking her in .
I am so grateful and blessed to have two amazing mares who I love unconditionally, they neigh when they see me , morning and night and it makes it so worth it to be appreciated by your best friend , my only best friends. Without Esme , I wouldn’t have been able to work for the international riders and bring on any horses , I’m sure I’d still be at square one , but now I get on anything . Even broke my hip at 14 from a horse :’)
I know it’s long and I could go on and on , but it shows that you can reach your goal if you work for it , and even if you don’t think the horse is right the first time you try it , I urge you to try it 3+ times and get a lesson with he /she. It will be the best decision of your life , and you’ll find your spark with them like I did, don’t lose hope <3Thanked by 1FancyThat -
*streches fingers*
Sol's been begging for another drabble.~Purveyor of the finest riding horses in Rakia~
Specializing in dun with the perfect amount of white.
Always ISOs: Dun Splash Expros, show ponies, Onyx ponies, star riding horse strawsThanked by 1HunterUnderSaddleGirl -
So I am actually writing a book on a Google Doc right now so I will just share the link but I am now where close to finished but I think I am going to make it real long. Yah I know the chapters are real short. Lol!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qRe57Ia38kfI8F_sybBFyvWQlidxEzlEM0bvWOTJYPQ/editFth Stables
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Kp, Snf & Sat -
@cissycat3 Can you play with your privacy settings for a little bit? As they are it won't let me open it.Breeder of any and all crazy colored drafts and RH horses.
15552 -
Sure! Let me figure that out. I think you have to send a request some how?Fth Stables
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Kp, Snf & Sat -
I think there's a way to just make it public. I can try to screenshot the steps if you would like but it's been a while since I used Google docs
https://photos.app.goo.gl/HmN4fEnnPPjsQGho9Breeder of any and all crazy colored drafts and RH horses.
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I think you should be able to view it now!Fth Stables
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Kp, Snf & Sat -
Perfect! Thank you! About to watch movie with family now, but I can't wait to read it tomorrowBreeder of any and all crazy colored drafts and RH horses.
15552Thanked by 1FancyThat -
I’m not exactly sure how long this will be but let’s find out....
I started riding horses when I was very young, maybe 4, I don’t really remember my first time getting on one, I just know it started an addiction (as it seems to always do). My parents and us never owned any horses, but they paid for my sister and I to get riding lessons, so it was always a different horse, and with moving, different areas. My child mind didn’t understand that the horn on western saddles wasn’t necessarily for balance or a stabilizer for children to hold onto, and I have always been stubborn and an “I can do it” type, and wanted to prove I didn’t need to hold on while I rode. So I started off in English. I loved it, what a rush it was for me to be that tall, to trot, to canter, all of it.
I always had such an imagination and always thought the world was absurdly generous, so whenever we went out there I always kept my eyes on the horses laying down, thinking they would foal any moment, and the owner of the horses would be so thankful I caught it in time that they would just give me the foal lol. From then on I would occasionally beg my parents to get us a horse, probably more often than they would have liked. However, we lived in the city, not much of a back yard, and neighborhood laws(?) against farm animals living there. But I thought it was more than reasonable to board them at our local fair grounds, while both my parents worked full time, my sister and I in school, and neither of my parents having any experience with horses, to the point of my mom being scared of them. I didn’t understand at the time how much work and money went into owning them, and didn’t give cost a second thought. I would look online at horses (drafts) for sale, and find foals for “only” 500$ or so, but getting so mad that my parents wouldn’t go for it.
After the housing market crash, we couldn’t afford to take horse riding lessons anymore and I was devastated. Aside from art, that was the one thing I actually remember genuinely being interested in from a young age, even now.
Flash forward 10 ish years later and I start working at a veterinary office, small and large animal, however no equine doctor. I wanted to become a veterinarian and tried finding ways to make it happen: junior college, undergrad, transfer, transfer again, and finally graduate 10 years later; joining the military under contract of serving after they put me through vet school as a veterinarian on base or for military animals (dogs, horses). But it just never felt right. Then I continued to search for my career while working there, going in and out of phases to become a vet, a vet tech, an ultrasound tech, a phlebotomist, an equine massage therapist or chiropractor. So many options, so many routes for each of them, and all of them seeming just short of reach while also seeming so impossible. Then I met a dairyman who changed it all.
After 3 years at the vets office, I was so tired of being walked over, spoken to but not heard, belittled, and had many empty promises given to me, I finally quit.
I started dating said dairyman soon after I met him at the beginning of my time at the vet office. After I quit, I took over the calf feeding for him. We had to quit the woman who was doing it because she was stealing calves during the night (video evidence).
Anyways.. my boyfriend (now husband) tells me that his parents have a friend and her son staying with them while she gets back on her feet, and she owns 2 or 3 horses, and she offered to teach him how to ride for free, but when he mentioned me possibly taking lessons from her (paid or free) she said she didn’t have time. Now, I get a little upset at this since he’s never really had an interest in horses and I have my whole life. This goes on for a few months and each time he comes in and tells me how much fun he had, I am obviously excited for him and the fact that he gets this opportunity, but I can’t help but feel so jealous.
Well, one day he calls me down to his parents house, just a short walk down the cow lane past several fields, and I get there to find him brushing a horse I haven’t seen a picture of yet. He bought it for me. He was an older horse, late teens, but very well trained and bomb proof. I was told by Nates trainer that the horse, Slick, is a “mans” horse, and does a lot better with them than with women, so i wasn’t sure what to expect. I wasn’t even sure where to begin really because it had been so long. I remembered the basics, but this time I had complete freedom to do what I wanted anywhere I wanted, hundreds of acres for us to go. Nate was told by the trainer to only walk with him for a while until he gets used to us, so Nate didn’t want me trotting or running him, so I was getting a little frustrated not being able to try everything I remembered. This was in June, and come early October I find out that I’m pregnant. Now, this is no ordinary discovery. I have PCOS- polycystic ovarian syndrome- and have been diagnosed via ultrasound and confirmed that I have “many” cysts on my ovaries. I was put on birth control when I was 21 to help this. I’ve known I had PCOS since my sr year of high school, my “time of the month” eventually become my “time of the year”, so I was used to not receiving it. When I got my first ultrasound, it was about 3 weeks after I took my at home test, and I was able to see the screen and see my baby, waiting for the tech to tell me how far along I am, and next thing she says to me is “do you want to know the sex”. I was 15 weeks pregnant, and had taken my at home test at 3 months. I wasn’t allowed to ride until I reached my second trimester, but once I reached that mile stone I definitely tried, but I couldn’t last 20 minutes without getting serious abdominal cramps, and eventually didn’t have enough energy to even attempt it. I was getting wiped out just moving him from one field to another, could barely brush and clean him without needing to sit and rest. And with him being a “mans” horse, he very much walked all over me. He is a cutting horse so whenever we walked by the herd he would get so excited he would be pushing and pulling me all around, so I ended up not going over there much aside from moving him because my body couldn’t take it. Too late into my pregnancy I had severely low iron and platelets which explained this.
After having Layton, and healing, I started riding again. My husband knew how much I loved it and forced me to go back out, I may have had a little resentment towards slick for pushing me around while I was pregnant and already so tired. But once I did, I realized all he needed was a firm hand. I wasn’t going to be able to hurt him on my own so I wasn’t going to worry about that. Any time he misbehaved I started slapping his neck (usually only once for him to understand I was serious), and it got to the point where it wasn’t necessary, he was no longer a “mans horse”.
I started running him, cantering they barrel pattern (very roughly), and then running him on it, and I found a new addiction. My husband and I started talking about finding a younger horse for me to compete on barrels, start going with friends to races. But then I realized it’s not a good idea right now, and soon enough, after backing out of a young horse, we got much much busier with much less help.
I continue to hope that some day, once Layton is older and we have more time, that I’ll be able to race. -
And just because it was fun writing stories, I have another!
This is a story about the crazy neighbors we have had.
I moved in with my boyfriend (now husband) about December 2017 after my parents gave me an ultimatum. I started staying the night at his place here and there and they didn’t like it, so they told me I either lived with them or I live with my boyfriend, but I couldn’t do both.
Let’s set the scene: We live directly on the dairy, so we don’t have too many neighbors or traffic coming by aside from people who are supposed to be there. We allowed a couple workers to live in the house we built out of a barn right next to our house.
So, our first 6-12 months dating were rough to say the least. He was diagnosed with h-pylori which is essentially a stomach bacteria, and he was sick for literally months. Couldn’t keep much down, was extremely weak, had a coming and going fever, and was in and out of doctor appointments. Then in that same December when I first moved in we both caught the norovirus. This is where the story actually starts-
Nate was feeling well, just got over his session with the norovirus and his h-pylori was in a bit of a recession I guess, but now was my turn with the virus. Again, couldn’t keep anything down, was sleeping next to the toilet, was very weak and tired. It was midnight, I hadn’t slept yet and was on my way back to bed, when I hear a lot of loud banging. The workers are known to be rowdy at times and would have occasional parties, so I just waved it off as that, but Nate knew better. He thought it was gunshots. He went out to our windows to see what was going on and locked all the doors, but the next thing he tells me is that there is a parade of police cars coming down our lane. I tell him to get back in bed and pretend that nothing is happening as long as all the doors and windows are locked; my dad is an officer so I knew that would be the best way about it. But he thought it would be better to let the officers know we were there and kind of waved them down from our kitchen window; they ordered him to come out with his hands up and to walk backwards towards them. He couldn’t see anything because of the lights, but knew there were at least 12 police cars before the turn blocked the view of the rest of them, and the suspect was still inside the house next to ours not yet in custody. They cuffed him and put him in the back seat of one of the patrol cars. Maybe 30 minutes later I get a call from his phone, and he’s telling me one of the officers wanted to talk to me, and the officer says he understands I’m sick but that I need to get out of the house because they can’t see the suspect anymore due to running behind our two houses; he tells me to get dressed and get anything I need out of the house, wallets, phone, jacket, etc, then to come outside and they will guide me from there. They had me come out with hands up and to walk backwards until the told me to stop, then cuffed me as well. We spent our night bouncing from cop car to fire truck to cop car, constantly banging on the windows for me to step out and “get sick” so I don’t do it in the car. This lasted until about 7 am, the milkers, the calf feeder, everyone got turned away, so the cows were there engorged until about 8, 5 hours past the usual time. They wouldn’t let anyone down, and we had to wait until after they took us to my in laws for us to walk down the lane to be able to get them milked and fed.
We had our three dogs still in the house shut in our spare room that I told them about, and we later came down when they allowed us to take them. They continued to tell us we couldn’t go inside until they were done with the investigation- although it didn’t happen inside our house at all. But they continued to tell us they will call us when they are finished and we are allowed to come back.
We stayed at my in laws while they were out of town until about 10 pm that night when we came to check and found them all to be gone. Along with all our stuff thrown around, all our doors wide open, and our drapes on the ground. Now I am pro cop with my dad being an officer, but this was the first time I realized how others must view them. That was the first time I was treated like that. They took our guns as evidence and left our copy of their warrants behind. We didn’t get our gums back until over 2 years later on a technical mistake. They searched both houses under one address.
Flash forward and we allowed our calf feeder to move in that house and didn’t allow any other workers to live on the property. My work was getting unbearable and I started looking for a different job, while working part time as the calf feeder’s relief on the weekends. Well, she started asking our “everything” worker to cover for her half the week but some how her hours never wavered.
We continued to have problems with her, leaving early without doing some of her work, getting someone to cover her here while she moved pipes for someone else, having half the calves die during the winter, and as stated in the first story, stealing at least 3 calves that we know of. So we decided I would replace her. She was to relieve me Friday-Sunday since she had another job so she could do both, and we would work together until she only replaced me 2 days a week.
She had a new boyfriend that she had stay with her there. She had bbq’s until late at night with so many people that I had to park down by the barn instead of in my own parking space. She got another car and let her bf use it and they would always take our spots.
One day our everything worker came to talk to me while I was feeding grain and told me her bf was watching me work, I turned just in time to see him turning away.
Two days later he messaged me in Instagram and I ignored it since I wasn’t friends with him on there and never spoke to him. Then I get a text from her apologizing for him and saying she told him not to, that she was just venting to him and he took it upon himself to try to fix it, so I open it to find a large text threatening the well being of myself and my boyfriend. I never reply, and just talk to her, but continue to receive threats.
My boyfriend talks to the girl trying to figure out what’s going on and she just continues to defend him and starts saying how my bf was actually the one being abusive towards her and making her feel threatened, however he has never done anything to her aside from give her a job and a place to stay. So he tells her if this continues she needs to leave the house she’s staying in. The next day her family is here packing up her house. Her dad yells at me asking about my bf and I just tell him he’s working. Soon after I hear yelling outside and see that he’s going after my bf, so I go out and he immediately turns his anger towards me saying I’m a thief. Nate gets him to back down and we go inside and they finally leave.
But after that, her bf starts following me around town, and followed me into one store where he started yelling at me. Now, I’m not one to back down, so although he is a 6ft 200+ lb man and me being a 5’3 woman, I walk right up to him and bow up letting him know I mean business. But he again threatens Nates wellbeing and runs out the door speeding towards our house. I call the cops and my brother in law and father in law along with Nate warning all of them of the threat. I finally get there and he’s no where to be found. Just empty words. I show the officers the threats I’ve been receiving, tell them he’s been following me, and describe him and his vehicle. But the police say they can’t arrest him or make a report unless he is right there in person and threatening our life with a gun or knife or something similar, and that threats to “beat us up” aren’t really arrest worthy.
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..We continued to get cars driving by at night and parking outside our house while running and later driving off about 30 minutes later. No one getting in or out, just siting there. Thankfully during that time I had my shotgun and my dads 45 just in case, but even more thankfully, nothing happened and it finally died down a month or two later.
Ever since we have turned that house into an office for our dairy and no more employees live on our property. -
And actually, I was just thinking of this as well, I know I’m long winded, but if you can bear through another of my “stories”, id love to talk about genetics of bulldogs and my future plans with that breed! Not really a story, but more of just talking lolThanked by 1HunterUnderSaddleGirl
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I am not great at fiction stories but here's the story of how I won my first blue ribbon at a horse show.
I started riding horses when I was 7 years old. A couple years later my instructor told me I was ready for the show ring. "My" horse Classy, was not really mine but had been assigned to me for the year and no one else rode her. She was an 18 year old chestnut Arabian, and I loved her to bits!
I was so excited for show season that year. I did little jobs around the house, and for my parents friends for months; so I could save up the money I needed for show clothes. Once I had saved up everything I needed my Mom took me shopping. I bought the prettiest show shirt I could find with matching Western boots and a matching cowgirl hat.
Mine and Classy's first show together we brought home two 3rd place ribbons for Western pleasure. The 2nd show I actually didn't expect to go that well. Our lesson the day before had gone badly, and Classy's behavior that morning was even worse. She was spooky and refused to do anything I asked. The first class of the day was a disaster and I didn't place at all. My instructor told me to take Classy to a quiet corner of the show grounds and calm us both down. By the second class, we were both much calmer.
The announcer called for horses to enter the arena and I realized that there were only 2 riders entered in the class. I figured I would be given the red 2nd place ribbon just by default, as the other rider was a few years older than me. However I still tried to ride my best and Classy was acting like a dream now. The announcer called for walk, jog, lope, and a roll back; then all again going the opposite direction. Before I knew it the class was over and we were instructed to line up in the middle of the arena.
Suddenly my parents and riding instructor started cheering! The announcer was calling my name as the the arena attendent walked toward me with the blue ribbon! I was in total shock! My face was beaming and I couldn't stop smiling for the rest of the day. I took Classy back to the tailor and gave her the best grooming of her life; while showering her with hugs, kisses, pets, and carrots. -
These are all fantastic stories so far! Thank you! Keep it up! I believe I sent everyone their 100k, but if I somehow forgot you please let me know!Breeder of any and all crazy colored drafts and RH horses.
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My HAJ name is Danaerys. I would love to ride dragons! My first horse would have prepared me well, and here is his story.
One day they took me out of class and I went with people who weren’t teachers at the school. They made me take tests all day. Reading and math and picture puzzles and stuff. After that, things were very different. Any time I didn’t get a perfect score on a paper, I had to stay in at recess and do it over. If I got any grade below a B, it meant a paddling with a wooden board. Apparently, I had a college reading level, a super high IQ, (whatever that was) and any score less than A+ meant I was being lazy. Grownups would whisper behind my back like they thought I couldn’t hear them. I could plainly see that kids who got C’s and D’s on papers and kids who couldn’t speak English still got to go out for recess, and didn’t get spanked. I became a resentful and recalcitrant child who ended up tied to my desk with jump ropes to keep me there. I learned that even though my butt was tied to the school desk with a rope, they had no control over my thoughts and my spirit. They treated me like I was stupid — or like I was a freak. Did they really think I couldn’t hear them when they whispered behind me? I knew what the word genius meant; THEY were the ones who were stupid. I was 7 years old and I hated people. I had been kicked out of kindergarten two years earlier because they didn’t know what to do with me.
My friends were animals. I set up a science lab in the storage shed next to the kitchen door to study insects. Mom wasn’t a fan. My secret was recruiting the neighbor kids to help me break the milk cow’s calf to ride. I really wanted a horse, but that was an unaffordable luxury, so a bony-backed steer calf would have to do. Messing with the cattle was totally forbidden. Upsetting the cow would affect the milk production, and exercise for a steer would make the meat tough. So we named him Bulldozer and used baling twine for a bridle.
When the inevitable day came that he went where good steers go, Daddy invited the neighbors over for a big dinner of fresh beef. None of us kids would eat the meat because Bulldozer was our friend. Daddy was cussin’ mad, but we never got caught, and the grownups never knew he was trained to neck rein.
We had moved a couple more times when I went with daddy to the sale barn. We had stock racks on the pickup and went seeking the bum lambs and bucket calves that could be gotten for 25 cents up to a buck or two. With good care, some of them survived, and could be sold for a profit when they were older. There, at the Longmont sale barn was a little black pony, and by that time, I had read every horse book on the County Bookmobile. We got home, daddy came up with a saddle and bridle, and I was in the horse business.
My favorite book at the time was “The Black Stallion,” and that’s what he was. He was ungelded, wilder’n snot, had a truckload of bad habits, and I didn’t care. Nobody could catch him. I could catch him. Nobody could put a bridle on him. I could use baling twine and make a war bridle. My smart-ass older brother was going to show me how it should be done and ended up with with a broken hand and arm. He didn’t mess with my pony again.
At a different school now, my troubles were less from teachers and more from older class bullies. I was the poor, sad, plain little girl in hand-me-down clothes that the mean kids loved to pick on. Jeffrey was one of the spoiled, rich, mean kids who could do no wrong. Jeffrey lived down the road from us and his dad was the school principal; he and his bully buddies would beat me up at recess and the teachers would say it was my fault. My parents had told everyone to stay away from the little black horse because they didn’t want anyone to get hurt. Jeffrey went in the corral anyway.
Before the dust had settled, Jeffrey had run home screaming, and his mother was hysterically yelling at my mother about his new (and very expensive) leather jacket that was ruined and he had huge bruises on his back. The black horse had picked him up by the shoulders and shaken him like a rag doll until the jacket came off. If he hadn’t been wearing that jacket, he would have been dead. Jeffrey never came close to our place again after that. I loved to saddle up and ride past Jeffrey’s house. If he was out playing in the front yard when I came down the road on the black horse, he would run away. If his friends were there, they would all run away, or go inside. So, I made sure to go by there every time I was out riding. Jeffrey never beat me up at school any more.
Sometimes I would challenge the town kids to races on their bicycles. Even on a downhill slope, my pony would be twenty yards out before their bikes got moving. That was fun.
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The secret to managing the black pony was staying on top of him and keeping a short rein. On the ground, I always kept one hand on his shoulder and kept the war bridle tight. He had to shift his weight to rear or kick, and I could feel the movement and yank him off balance before he got that far. Once I was on his back, he couldn’t reach me. If he threw a tantrum while I was riding, I’d crank one rein around to my knee and make him spin until he gave up. If he tried it again, I’d spin him the other way. It was a battle of wills that I would never lose. I knew if he ever came home without me, he would go back to the sale barn. I knew I had to stay far enough away from the house that mom couldn’t see us out the kitchen window, or she would tell dad how bad he really was. I didn’t care.
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"The Black Stallion," by Walter Farley, is the story of a boy alone on an island with a wild horse. The book chronicles how the boy gradually gains the trust of the wild horse and is finally able to ride and manage him. I had read the book multiple times when black pony came into my life from the sale barn, so I was just seeing myself following that story with my own black stallion. No big deal. -- Danaerys There is an entire series of books.
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Still accepting stories! Get a fast 100k to help you with your SS shopping!Breeder of any and all crazy colored drafts and RH horses.
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I am putting my other on a hold and started my new book called Gone Away. :)Fth Stables
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Oops meant to say something earlier, but please start voting!Breeder of any and all crazy colored drafts and RH horses.
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Is there a way to vote on mobile?
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Go to the bottom right and click on full siteBreeder of any and all crazy colored drafts and RH horses.
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Will close after auction!Breeder of any and all crazy colored drafts and RH horses.
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Thank you :) voted!
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We have a tie, but fortunately I have enough hb's for prizes for both!
Congrats
EaglesFly19
CoppiLaneBreeder of any and all crazy colored drafts and RH horses.
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Whoops! I accidentally paid Eagles twice, so I will give CoppiLane a little bit today and the rest tomorrow!Breeder of any and all crazy colored drafts and RH horses.
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Thank you so much! Was very fun sharing a little from my life :)
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Oh wow! I completely forget about this! Thank you!