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DD just got a job at the local racetrack grooming and tacking up the TBs.
She’s all of 5 feet and 100 pounds so this is what I imagine it looks like. I hope they give her a stepstool:lol:
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DD just got a job at the local racetrack grooming and tacking up the TBs.
She’s all of 5 feet and 100 pounds so this is what I imagine it looks like. I hope they give her a stepstool:lol:
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I think that’s wonderful. I wouldn’t trade my race track years for anything in the world. That’s where I really learned to read horses, ride and love them more than I thought I ever could 
Yes, I know this is inevitable. And I know so little about this that I don’t know if I should be worried or not. But she’s 17 and it’s not like she listens to me anyway:lol:
If only I’d known about it at 17 I would have never left racing, but I didn’t discover galloping until I was 27. It’s such an opportunity to learn about horses, especially if you work for a good trainer who will take a little time to teach you legs and soundness. On the east coast there are also steeplechase and hurdle chase trainers to work for and they often train on farms where you learn to condition for 6 mile races and do a lot of the conditioning cross country. I spent much of my time conditioning turf horses and the trainer I worked for trained them on his farm. We galloped them up and down hills and I rode one filly who used to get to the top of the hills and jump straight out :eek: When she landed she barely touched the ground; she was such a cat! Boy did I develop balance! Those years are great memories for me. I hope your daughter has many wonderful rides and meets many many wonderful horses. I’m sure she will.
Some tracks have a rough element, but it’s easy to watch for that and with kindness maintain a little distance. For the most part, where there are horses there are also many wonderful people.
Good luck to her
…Some tracks have a rough element…
Learning how to deal with the “rough element” is a skill that serves one well, on or off the track!
most excellent bump art SEP!
I, also, spent many years at the the racetrack. Learned A LOT…about horses and people :yes:. I believe it’s one of the last bastions where people can become horsemen…in the good, old, original sense of the word. You walk, you rub, you gallop, you ride…and through it all you learn to train 
The horses are all young, volatile and athletic and you must be on your game…but it doesn’t get a whole lot better than that, does it?
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DD has fallen in love with this job already. Currently, the trainer has yearlings and 2 year olds at the track for training. DD has already picked out a favorite, a grey filly. Trainer has offered to train DD how to ride up at her breeding farm and then get her a track license. I don’t think it’s worth it since DD is going off to college in the fall.
HOWEVER, it is foaling time at the breeding farm and I’ve seen the pix. Cuteness overload:yes: A road trip is in our future:D
Bumpity-bump
So I was reading the shudder Parelli thread, and was getting rather confused when people started saying “PP’s methods are questionable, etc,” and thought they were talking about me… 
And not that I’m biased or anything…but as Ted often “tells” me: Once you have an OTTB, you never go back. Or maybe that’s backwards.
Your methods are indeed questionable. Your stick horse art, however, is just fine.
Wow, thanks…
(By the way, yes, my methods definitely are questionable. But not in a bad sense, I’m just easily amused.)
PP we loves you and your awesome stick art too. {{HUGS}}
Everyone has trouble herding cats, don’t you know… :yes:
Shameless bump cuz of the number of my last post
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How wierd is that???:eek:
Aw thanks…
It took me a few seconds to figure that out, but that is totally weird! Cool!
I’m am having a lesson with my new trainer tomorrow… wish me luck… after a couple of months out of the saddle due to circumstances out of my control… it should be an interesting lesson to say the least…:lol: Maybe this is what I will look like…
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Poor trainer… I feel sorry for her already…:lol::lol::lol:
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Thank you, but compared to the Masters around here I’ll be in Novice Stick Horse forever
[QUOTE=Fixerupper;3159133]I, also, spent many years at the the racetrack. Learned A LOT…about horses and people :yes:. I believe it’s one of the last bastions where people can become horsemen…in the good, old, original sense of the word. You walk, you rub, you gallop, you ride…and through it all you learn to train
The horses are all young, volatile and athletic and you must be on your game…but it doesn’t get a whole lot better than that, does it?[/QUOTE]
I always love meeting people who loved their time at the track and love tbs. I was sick for awhile and was tb-less. It took some time for me to be able to get back into horses, but when I could I went straight out and got an ottb. Now, ten years later I’ve gathered four; three are forever keepers and one is a “project horse”. Living with thoroughbreds again makes me feel like I can breathe again; I had no idea I missed them this badly until I started adding to my herd and feeling completely surrounded by them. :yes:
