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With our new Double D, we are anxious to get back into the mode of trailering to more places a further distance than nearby trail heads. We are planning trail riding excursions to IL, KY, and OK, and all are within a one-day road trip experience. I don't think we are much ...
He picked my friend and I up from our hostel, gave us snacks and told us the most fascinating stories about all the places we visited. It’s obvious that the horses are so loved and the ranch is like one big family. The temple of the moon was magical...
t know anybody who had it round these parts. Neighbors began yelling across the street at each other. Great weather. Let’s go for a bike ride. I did and got a road rash on my knee when I fell off. They are right. It’s just like riding a bike has always been. Last week the...
I’v been horse riding for a very long time now and tried different places but this was by far the best experience I had. The horses are so well taken care of, beach is amazing and Suleman is very kind and helpful. He also takes amazing pictures and video...
112 By then, riding had become more widespread throughout Europe, the Near East, Central Asia, and perhaps India too.121 As the traditional Chinese idiom goes, “When horses arrive, success follows.” The value of using horses for rapid deployment was not lost on kings of ancient times ...
As I write this article, I am days into the arrival of my new pony Gwynna, the third member of my little herd, with a herd integration in our near future. It seems somehow fortuitous to be riding the various waves of emotion that this transition can present — trepidation, fear, antici...
I awoke with sense of travel, of wonder. How horses are the key that unlock another dimension for us. Like riding Starboy with Holly and Bari one week ago, at Charmlee Park, in Malibu. I remember Holly asking me, as we saw each other at work one day, “What do you mean when you...
Frankie wept, declaring “…she’s taken me places emotionally I’ve never been to before.” And my eyes filled with tears too, knowing the kind of superstars Frankie has ridden over the decades and realizing that it wasn’t only my spectator emotions that Enable had engaged: she owned ...
The morning had worn away in these inquiries, and I was sitting on the step of an empty shop at a street corner, near the market-place, deliberating upon wandering towards those other places which had been mentioned, when a fly-driver, coming by with his carriage, dropped ahorsecloth. So...