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Travels With Rodney, Old Arena

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won. The covered arena at Stepping Stone Farm. This is where we go when we need a contained space. This is where I had my first ASB lesson. [Ears, Sam I Am] This is where I first sat on Milton.Continue reading “Travels With Rodney, Old Arena”

Travels With Rodney, New Arena

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won. Rodney checked out a new work space over the weekend, D&D Arena. That makes six, including home. The other four are Stepping Stone Farm, Falcon Hill Farm, Full Circle Horse Park, & Inanda Stables. While facilities in the backyard would be convenient, thisContinue reading “Travels With Rodney, New Arena”

Rodney’s Diet Secret, Cow TV

Horsekeeping Lucky enough to have a horse. This is why Rodney has lost weight that his senior self cannot spare. He spends ALL DAY in this corner staring at cows. He hates to miss a moment in the ongoing cow soap opera. What is the brown cow doing now? Will the black cowContinue reading “Rodney’s Diet Secret, Cow TV”

Equine Logo, KLLM

Celebrating Art KLLM. Horse logo for a non-horse company. Photo taken Dec 2019, Inverness AL, USA. If you check the brake lights, you will see that I waited for a stoplight. Previous Roadway Attractions [Equine Logo: Norfolk Southern] [You Know You Have Fallen Down The Lettering Rabbit Hole When …] Thank you forContinue reading “Equine Logo, KLLM”

Poop, Glorious Poop

Horsekeeping Lucky enough to have a horse. 💩 One night last week, Rodney had a short bout of feeling punk. It presented as a low fever and a leisurely approach to dinner. Since lack of interest in food was involved, we immediately hit the colic panic button. Confirmation call to the vet. Shot ofContinue reading “Poop, Glorious Poop”

Thoroughbred Databases and Playing The Numbers, or not

Horsekeeping Lucky enough to have a horse. I added Milton and Previous Horse to the Thoroughbred Sport Tracker of the Retired Racehorse Project. I figured, Why not? It’s free, the data might help someone somewhere, and I get a blog post out of it. Turns out I got two posts [Get Off MyContinue reading “Thoroughbred Databases and Playing The Numbers, or not”

Get Off My Lawn, And Take Your Warmblood With You

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won. I added Milton and Previous Horse to the Thoroughbred Sport Tracker of the Retired Racehorse Project. The weirdest part of the whole thing for me is the RRP subtitle, “Increasing Demand for Thoroughbreds” Increasing demand? When did this happen? There used to beContinue reading “Get Off My Lawn, And Take Your Warmblood With You”