Asad has been here for a week. When he showed up he was a bit dehydrated and exhausted from his trip. For the first few days he drank, licked his salt blocks, ate and slept. His eyes and nose were both drippy so I figured he had shipping fever, which basically means he got sick […]
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EHF Asad is linebred to Cochise, the stallion the founders of the Spanish Mustang Registry held up as an example of their ideal horse. As you can tell from the number of links in this paragraph, he meets my criteria foran outstanding individual of these exceptional and extra-ordinary horses. When I inherited my property a […]
Note: a few days after this post went on-line, the SB(B)HA updated their website to reflect the information I present here on preserving entire Spanish Colonial bloodlines instead of one individual from a select few. I have not been offered a Square colt by anyone associated with the registry yet, but here is hoping that […]
The Colonial Spanish horse excelled as light horse cavalry for millennia. Yet our Colonial Spanish horses have not made a mark in modern endurance competitions. I say that is because those modern races are not actually about the horse’s endurance at all. I once asked a lowlands horse trainer who specialized in endurance competitions how […]
Until very recently, it was official US government policy to more or less forcibly transform Native American warriors into farmers. US government agents made sure that Indian pony stallions were either castrated or slaughtered. Heavy horses bred for harness were brought in to cross on the local mares. Harness horses or trotters, whether heavy draft […]
I have waited to call the vet and get the Choctaw Princess’s teeth checked until she was willing to let people look in her mouth and float her teeth without panicking. The first time I set my hand on her nose, she threw up her head, rose up onto her tippy-toes and began skittering sideways […]
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