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Another favorite is by Joe Hirsch, so simple yet perfect it gives me chills:
“Once upon a time there was a horse named Kelso. But only once.”[/QUOTE]
LOVE this
the one I use goes counter clockwise
all fat bay mares can’t hardly ever kick
“When in doubt, leave it out.” Lol
“I’ll use my space to get my pace, Hail Mary full of grace, please don’t let me fall on my face.”
“If your horse doesn’t give you the answer you wanted, you either asked the question wrong or asked the wrong question.”
“Practice doesn’t make perfect- perfect practice makes perfect.”
“Frustration begins where your knowledge ends.”
For both those who like the long spots and the deep ones:
When in doubt, leave it out!
When unsure, add one more!
Ohhhhhh!
This reminds me, a writer did a wonderful profile on Julie Krone for Sports Illustrated, and in it refered to racetrackers, as a profession, being “slightly more superstitious than the voodoo priesthood.”
Cormac McCarthy, in All the Pretty Horses -
“The boy who rode on slightly before him sat a horse not only as if he’d been born to it which he was but as if were he begot by malice or mischance into some queer land where horses never were he would have found them anyway. Would have known that there was something missing for the world to be right or he right in it and would have set forth to wander wherever it was needed for as long as it took until he came upon one and he would have known that that was what he sought and it would have been.”
Oh, and I learned A Fat Bay Mare Came Home Eating Kale.
More racetrack isms -
He can’t ride one side of a broomstick.
Are you tied on? Meaning Are you set and ready?
AND my all time favorite - sitting fat, dumb and happy.
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I’ve also heard of it called a “prophet’s thumb,” and I heard the same thing- that its good luck.
I wouldn’t think that it’s good luck in a conformation class, however! Does anyone know if they take off points for it, and if so is it a lot or just a minor thing? Not for any particular reason, I’m just curious.[/QUOTE]
I learned it as an “Indian thumbprint”- don’t know about the conformation penalty though.
How about the “blood shoulder” legend? I used to ride an OTTB with a blood shoulder and my trainer told me about it. Something about a pregnant grey (Arab?) mare carrying her master into battle and then taking him home after he was injured/killed. His blood dripped onto her shoulder and when her foal was born he had the markings on his shoulder as well. I could be way off base, but that’s what I remember
The horse I used to ride with his “blood shoulder”
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All Viking Kings Eat Shiny Happy Communist Monkeys Right Before Playing Football (I came up with this on a plane ride about 20 years ago. It was a long plane ride)
Ask, tell, make
A good horse is never a bad color
The secret to life is younger women, older whiskey, faster horses, and more money (from an old country song)
I had forgotten about this thread! Nice to read it over again.
A Fat Black Mare Can Hardly Ever Kick
All King Edward’s Horses Carry Many Bloody Fools
Winners Never Add.
Click, kick, stick
When a British friend and I talked about having a flutter, nobody knew what we meant - anyone?
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I learned:
i also learned a couple of useful mnemonics for remembering the letters in a dressage arena:
A Fat Black Mother Cat Had Eight Kittens (anti-clockwise)
All King Edward’s Horses Can Manage Big Fences (clockwise)[/QUOTE]
I learned the second of your two, and:
All King Edward’s Horses Cantered Merrily But Fast
I think the second quote you were thinking of is:
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.
For want of the shoe, the horse was lost.
For want of the horse, the rider was lost.
For want of the rider, the message was lost.
For want of the message, the battle was lost.
For want of a nail, the battle was lost.
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I learned
One white foot, buy him
Two white feet, try him
Three white feet, eye him
Four white feet, deny him.
There was also one, for the sake of the horse, the leg was lost, for the sake of the leg, the hoof was lost, for the sake of the hoof, the horse was lost, or something like that?[/QUOTE]
Over, under or through!
How to make a small fortune in the horse business… Start with a large one.
Over, under or through!
How to make a small fortune in the horse business… Start with a large one.
