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<blockquote data-quote="TexasJerseyMilker" data-source="post: 1809352" data-attributes="member: 42782"><p>You had fine times when he wasn't trying to kill you. </p><p></p><p>I've had 14 horses in my life. The first and best was the appendix mare Tamar. I was 15 and bought with my babysitting money. Long distance cross country off trail. 60 miles over the hill ranges to the ocean and back, brought me back at night even in storms. She had fire and heart of the TB with the mind and muscle of a QH. She lived 40 years. I have her bones to be buried with because such a one comes only once in life and does not come again. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]31622[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>One black Arab stallion, </p><p>[ATTACH=full]31620[/ATTACH]</p><p>one mini horse stud I still have raised from a foal, he's 20. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]31621[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Two grade quarterhorses I rescued starving in west Texas desert. One I gave away to another nurse for her grand kids. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]31624[/ATTACH]</p><p>The other turned out to be locoed. Gave me a head injury and broken ribs. She would instantly reverse directings and violently flip over backwards like some kind of seizure. I couldn't sell her or give her away, she would have killed someone. So I sold her for slaughter at the place in San Antonio when this was legal. I looked over the place, it was humane slaughter a lot better than Mexico.</p><p></p><p>Someone gave me an leaopard Ap gelding that was too much for her daughter. Turned out he was cryptorchid. I gave him to an Indian grandfather I knew. He loved this horse and rode him in parades.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]31625[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I also rescued a donkey out of that bunch. He became a ranch calf guardian but counts as an equine. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]31626[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>A ranch horse named Reba, she was a good sensible mare, and her half saddlebred foal that became a circus horse. A saddlebred stud colt I let my ex husband have when I left him, A Saddlebred filly, beautiful but was a nut and got killed in a riding accident, </p><p></p><p>This palomino mare that was raised as a paddock pony, did not know how to cross water or anything. I took her on a long crosscountry trip to where Tamar and I grew up, the Point Reyes national sea shore. It is mostly mountain ranges and forested hills. I camped with her at the Horse Camp for a month and rode her every day 20 miles or more in the real world. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]31616[/ATTACH]</p><p>She was 5 gaited and floatsd a smooth singlefoot gait over mountains and hills without missing a beat. Went into the ocean too, Hows that for a Saddlebred? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]31627[/ATTACH]</p><p>She died of old age. </p><p></p><p>Now I have this one. Arago is the most beautiful of all my horses. He was a three gaited fine harness show horse in New Jersey. Three gaited are more refined. When he was imported to Oregon across the US and arrived with those horrible shoes and feet. I pulled the shoes, trimmed and let him go barefoot in the pastures. Of all the horses in my life he is the most beautiful. I's going to take him and camp in east Oregon praire and ride him every day all day for a month like I did the 5 gaited. These are pleasure riding horses not practical work horses. For some there is a spiritual link to horses. They is the seat from which my prayers of gratitude rise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasJerseyMilker, post: 1809352, member: 42782"] You had fine times when he wasn't trying to kill you. I've had 14 horses in my life. The first and best was the appendix mare Tamar. I was 15 and bought with my babysitting money. Long distance cross country off trail. 60 miles over the hill ranges to the ocean and back, brought me back at night even in storms. She had fire and heart of the TB with the mind and muscle of a QH. She lived 40 years. I have her bones to be buried with because such a one comes only once in life and does not come again. [ATTACH type="full"]31622[/ATTACH] One black Arab stallion, [ATTACH type="full"]31620[/ATTACH] one mini horse stud I still have raised from a foal, he's 20. [ATTACH type="full"]31621[/ATTACH] Two grade quarterhorses I rescued starving in west Texas desert. One I gave away to another nurse for her grand kids. [ATTACH type="full"]31624[/ATTACH] The other turned out to be locoed. Gave me a head injury and broken ribs. She would instantly reverse directings and violently flip over backwards like some kind of seizure. I couldn't sell her or give her away, she would have killed someone. So I sold her for slaughter at the place in San Antonio when this was legal. I looked over the place, it was humane slaughter a lot better than Mexico. Someone gave me an leaopard Ap gelding that was too much for her daughter. Turned out he was cryptorchid. I gave him to an Indian grandfather I knew. He loved this horse and rode him in parades. [ATTACH type="full"]31625[/ATTACH] I also rescued a donkey out of that bunch. He became a ranch calf guardian but counts as an equine. [ATTACH type="full"]31626[/ATTACH] A ranch horse named Reba, she was a good sensible mare, and her half saddlebred foal that became a circus horse. A saddlebred stud colt I let my ex husband have when I left him, A Saddlebred filly, beautiful but was a nut and got killed in a riding accident, This palomino mare that was raised as a paddock pony, did not know how to cross water or anything. I took her on a long crosscountry trip to where Tamar and I grew up, the Point Reyes national sea shore. It is mostly mountain ranges and forested hills. I camped with her at the Horse Camp for a month and rode her every day 20 miles or more in the real world. [ATTACH type="full"]31616[/ATTACH] She was 5 gaited and floatsd a smooth singlefoot gait over mountains and hills without missing a beat. Went into the ocean too, Hows that for a Saddlebred? [ATTACH type="full"]31627[/ATTACH] She died of old age. Now I have this one. Arago is the most beautiful of all my horses. He was a three gaited fine harness show horse in New Jersey. Three gaited are more refined. When he was imported to Oregon across the US and arrived with those horrible shoes and feet. I pulled the shoes, trimmed and let him go barefoot in the pastures. Of all the horses in my life he is the most beautiful. I's going to take him and camp in east Oregon praire and ride him every day all day for a month like I did the 5 gaited. These are pleasure riding horses not practical work horses. For some there is a spiritual link to horses. They is the seat from which my prayers of gratitude rise. [/QUOTE]
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