horse stories

Equus – How did he manage that?

Posted on November 20, 2008. Filed under: blogs, horse stories | Tags: , |

Over on The Horsey Set, I posted a review of Equus. What I didn’t cover is what inquiring minds want to know about the practicalities of staging.
How did the 19-year-old Daniel Radcliffe manage to remain “uninspired” during his simulated sex scene with the lovely Anna Camp’s character?
After all, Radcliffe is a teen-age boy, a walking [...]

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Feel better soon, Patrick

Posted on March 6, 2008. Filed under: horse people, horse stories, horses | Tags: , , |

Most current accounts of Patrick Swayze’s illness refer to his career on stage and screen. Here, we will note him as another horse lover. One of us. Patrick is an expert equestrian, breeder and fancier of Arabian horses.
Click on this page to see the famous Polly Knoll photo of him and his stallion Tammen. [...]

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Homes of the Stars – Part 2

Posted on February 21, 2008. Filed under: Bloodhorse.com, KY, Lexington, Smarty Jones, The Bluegrass, farm tours, horse stories, horses | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Remember Smarty Jones? (A picture would be nice here, wouldn’t it? ;-> Sorry – workin’ on it! )
Smarty won the hearts of millions in his bid for the 2004 Triple Crown. Was it his comeback story from a nearly-devastating skull fracture the year before? Or his charming senior owners, The Chapmans, who showed [...]

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Horse Story Corner – gulp

Posted on February 18, 2008. Filed under: blogs, horse stories, horses | Tags: , , |

It’s time I started firming up what I’m going to do with the “Horse Story Corner” feature. Should it be a section on a general blog? Or its own website? Decisions, decisions. Oy vey.
Probably the best thing I can consider is simply the content. Get those facts, then decide the presentation.
Right now, I can tell [...]

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