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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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A Few Good Horses
The first thing I needed was a few good horses. The phrase “good horse” means different things to different people, but essentially, a good horse is one suited to the job being asked of it. Horses come in a lot of shapes and sizes; I wanted Pony Expr
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Charming King
Charming King, foaled in 1909, tacked up for a pleasure hack on the grounds of his owner’s estate. I fully concur with Saddlebred historian Emily Ellen Scharf’s description of Charming King as a horse of “balanced and symmetrical perfection, who comp

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