A seven-year-old girl was killed the other day after being drug by a horse. And it was an unbearable tragedy that could have been avoided.
According to the article in the Roxboro Courier Times, Melanie was feeding horses in a pen near her grandparent’s house. She had tied a lead line around her waist. The horse [...]

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Therapeutic riding lessons were canceled at Pegasus last night due to the weather, so I decided to go ride since I was already bundled up for the cold.
Marahute, usually second in the herd pecking order, is typically easy to work with, enjoys grooming, and is a generally friendly horse. She likes to test, but isn’t [...]

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I’m all for playing tagging games with my fellow horse bloggers, but it’s no fair when they all have middle names with 3-5 letters, and mine is 8 with several repeats. I think MiKael over at Rising Rainbow was right in identifying this as a virus. I’ve already defeated the seven weird or little known [...]

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Not only are horses friends, companions, and partners, they are also miracle workers. Just ask Abigail Hucker, a young dean’s list college student who wasn’t expected to live past the age of seven. Thank you to Roger and Vickie Hucker and Freedom Hills Therapeutic Riding Program for allowing me to share her story of [...]

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I came across a news item this morning that just sickened me: people training lions and tigers to ride on horses in China. It’s supposedly entertainment.
The article lead reads “the huge male lion clings on to the terrified horse – but this big cat is not about to devour his prey.” Right. Please tell me [...]

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(scroll down to watch videos of 2008 Bud Clydesdales, Shaq on horseback, and Big Ben American Idol ads)
I’m a Steelers fan, so I’ll admit, I was pretty pleased that the Giants managed to pull off the upset on the Patriots last night. I mean, two out of the three years the Pats won the Super [...]

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As a woman bonds with a horse,
Attempts to understand and interpret …
she is nurturing, facing her fears,
and moving beyond boundaries.
Essential lessons in any relationship.
Then in this new, quiet communication
of touch and thought
intuition and expressions …
she finds at last,
her Self.
~Kim McElroy
I can certainly relate to learning to nurture, face fears, and move beyond boundaries through working [...]

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