Any horse people out there? I used to train professionally a hundred years ago. When my wife left she took three and gave most of the rest away. I now have two.
I didn't leave for Thailand in 2010 until my 40-year-racking horse passed away naturally, and I'd already sold my last two TN Walking Horses. I found a home for my racking mule, so now I don't have any more horses
But I trained, rode, drove, did roping with, and jumped horses since I was eleven, in Haiti. My first horse was a Haitian mustang stallion and after that I bought an Akhal Teke throw-back mare, who could beat any horse in the valley.
In the US I had many breeds..Arabian, American White, Standardbred, etc., but finally settled on only gaited horses, once I moved to Kentucky..racking, five-gaited, TN Walking Horses, grade racking horses, etc.
Photos:
1.me jumping a log on my TN Walker, Banjo, near Soldier, KY.
2.Rabbit, my racking mule and my retired 40-year-old racking trail horse
3.Me driving Banjo on Daniel Boone National Forest access roads, near Morehead, KY
4.Me on my first Haitian mustang, a stallion
5.My kids skijoring with my son's horse, Black Jack on our Kentucky farm. My 8-yr-old daughter is riding him, and my son, on toy skis, was 11 years old.
I have ridden off and on all my life. When I was young, I trained and schooled horses. Now, my daughter, son in law and I have 3 gypsy cobs. My old mare died 2years ago and is buried here on the farm, along with my daughter's old Bashir curly. Now she has my old mares son. He was born here. We also have 2 mares that are leased to friends, and I have a gypsy/fjord cross. We also have a rescue donkey, who we didn't know was pregnant, so now we have her and her little 3 month old son.