horses
Posted on March 11, 2008. Filed under: Cop TV, horses | Tags: Arabbers, Cop TV, horses, The Wire |
Ordinarily, I’d be writing about horses here. And, as odd as it is to imagine, HBO’s gritty urban blight series “The Wire” had a horse in its final couple of episodes.
Teenaged Duquan (“Dukie”) joins forces with an Arabber, one of the now only-in-Baltimore street vendors who work out of horse-drawn carts. Although the Arrabber on [...]
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Posted on March 6, 2008. Filed under: horse people, horse stories, horses | Tags: Arabian horses, Patrick Swayze, Tammen |
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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Posted on March 5, 2008. Filed under: KY, horses, writing | Tags: horses, KY, writing |
A couple of years ago, I wrote an essay on spec that I sent to a Kentucky business magazine called The Lane Report . (No relation, BTW. My married name is Lane, though.) When you read it, you’ll be able to tell that it all comes from the heart. Here’s a follow-up.
I still go for [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2008. Filed under: KY, farm tours, horses | Tags: Creator, Kentucky, Old Friends |
The horse with his eye on the ridge ahead is Creator. (Let me know if the picture is too big and too slow to load.
He lives at the Old Friends thoroughbred retirement farm. He’s handsome, egotistical (horse people call that “studly”), territorial and cheerfully willing to bite the hand that feeds him. Of course, [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2008. Filed under: Bloodhorse.com, farm tours, horses | Tags: Bloodhorse.com, farm tours, horses, KY, Lexington, Smarty Jones, The Bluegrass |
As promised, here’s Part 3. If you’re reading this, then you’ve seen my question to Suzanne about obtaining photos. This kind of blog needs photos. So maybe I should just give the horse topic a rest and move on to another topic, until I get this snag solved? ;->
Anyway, I promised a Part 3, [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2008. Filed under: Bloodhorse.com, KY, Lexington, Smarty Jones, The Bluegrass, farm tours, horse stories, horses | Tags: Bloodhorse.com, farm tours, horses, Keeneland, KY, Lexington, Smarty Jones, The Bluegrass |
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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Posted on February 20, 2008. Filed under: KY, Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP), Lexington, The Bluegrass, blogs, farm tours, horses | Tags: blogs, farm tours, horses, KEEP, KY, Lexington |
Let’s say that you’re a fan of Michael Jordan. And let’s say that you find out that he offers “calling hours” every so often in his home. Wouldn’t you like to know more?
Well, if you’re a fan of champion thoroughbred race horses and if that horse is retired in the Lexington, KY, area, you just [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2008. Filed under: horses | Tags: horses |
Let’s see if I can upload an image …
Luke is one of the Budweiser Clydesdales based out of Merrimack, NH.
Luke and his trainer/handler Bill Madson drove down to CT one fine May morning to headline at the H.O.R.S.E. of CT spring open house. H.O.R.S.E. of CT is an equine shelter and farm in
Luke is about [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2008. Filed under: blogs, horse stories, horses | Tags: blogs, horses stories, story |
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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