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Recapturing The Joy Of Riding
You are out trail riding with a friend on a spring day when a bird flies out of a tree just ahead. Instantly your heart begins pounding as you tense up. “I wonder,” you say to your friend, “whether it’s time to head home?” You are riding in an outdoo
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Form And Function
A picture is worth a thousand words in explaining the bone structure that underlies the ability to freely turn the head, which is found not only in Saddlebreds but in some Thoroughbreds, Arabians and warmbloods. In skull A, the plate of bone that for
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Luna’s Odyssey
When my friend Kirsten Lotter arrived on a Saturday afternoon last spring, we were looking forward to a relaxing weekend. Kirsten had hauled her Arabian/Saddlebred mare Stella Luna BF the nearly 800 miles from her place in Manor, Texas, to the ranch

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