Let’s get this straight, once and for all. My horse is, hands-down, the
handsomest (or loveliest) of all equines that ever existed. Yep, he/she is more beautiful than Black Beauty, swifter than Secretariat, and sweeter than Seabiscuit.
Oh, and yours is
too.
OK?
The Mane Point is participating
again in the April A to Z blogging challenge, posting daily with alphabetical
entries.
For this year's A-Z event, a
month of posts will offer Turfy’s A-Z
Rules of Horsemanship, with all due apologies to the original Murphy of
Murphy’s Law,which basically said,
"If anything can go wrong, it probably will."
Horse lovers may have heard some
of these uncannily true, yet often ironic, statements in various forms in the
past. Or not.
Unbridled (Fappiano x Gena Facil by Le Fabuleux) won the Kentucky Derby and the Breeders’ Cup Classic in 1990.
Take a look at Unbridled (grandson of Mr. Prospector) in the 1990 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs:
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Trained by Carl Nafzger, Unbridled also won the Acorn Stakes, the Florida Derby, The Haskell Invitational Handicap, the Louisiana Handicap, the Pimlico Special, the Travers Stakes, the Wood Memorial and more.
Dust Off Those High School Varsity Letter Jackets!
Gee, is it too late for a long-ago high schooler to apply?
The USEF is offering high school varsity letters in equestrian sports to high schoolers (including home schoolers) who participate and compete actively in equestrian pursuits.
High school students who participate actively in equestrian sports in the United States may now apply for varsity letters in their sport. The ... Keep Reading »
Got a letter jacket? The USEF varsity letters and pins can be added to any existing varsity letter jacket. How cool is that?
1) Write a post (on your own blog), announcing that you have received the Honest Scrap award. Be sure to mention The Mane Point, the blog that conferred the Honest Scrap Award upon you. (Include the http link for The Mane Point as well.) Add the Honest Scrap Award graphic. (Right-click, and save it to your computer, or grab the image http.)
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2) Choose at least seven blogs that you admire. List these (with links) in your Honest Scrap Award blog entry.
4) Visit the blog that offered you the Honest Scrap Award, and leave a comment with a link to your post.
5) List ten honest things about yourself. Try to have fun with this one, and include facts others may not already know about you.
6) Display the Honest Scrap Award proudly on your blog sidebar.
Here are my ten fun facts:
1. I have fallen off a horse just once in my life.
2. On my favorite camping trip ever, we tied our horses outside our tent for the night.
3. My favorite place on earth is out in the yearling pasture.
4. If I don’t get dirty, I haven’t been to the barn.
5. I won the Grand Champion ribbon in my very first horse show. (It’s been pretty anticlimactic ever since.)
6. When I jump, I let our trusty thoroughbred do most of the driving. (I usually grab his mane and try my best to stay out of his way.)
7. I have never lost money at the track. (Of course, I haven’t won all that much, either, and it’s been years since I tried.)
8. My favorite saddle is a deep-seated Passier Grand Gilbert.
9. My young paint horse can pick out my footsteps in the aisle from fifty paces away, and he can usually tell if I am packin' produce.
10. I share every apple with an equine friend or two.
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