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I DEDICATE THIS SONG TO ONE OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS HERE ON IPEACE. MY DEAR FRIEND SUE. WE STARTED TALKING BECAUSE WE BOTH LOVE HORSES. SUE HAS NOW GONE ON HER FINAL TRIP AND I CAN CLOSE MY EYES AND I CAN SEE HER SPREAD HER WINGS AND FLY....



THIS IS A HAPPY TEAR FOR YOU MY LOVELY SUE

When I get where I'm going

on the far side of the sky.

The first thing that I'm gonna do

Is spread my wings and… Continue

You must truly love horses to feel the connection.... Our lives with horses are rich with feeling.

If you've ever... Choked back tears watching a new foal wobble to his feet for the first time...

Or watching your good horse wobble to his feet after surgery...

Or seen the ends of the reins float straight out as a reining

horse spins beneath them... Or chuckled to yourself as you watched a tiny tot

on a patient pony trot… Continue

Cowgirl is an attitude. A pioneer spirit, a special American brand of courage. The

cowgirl faces life head on and makes no excuses. Cowgirls take stands. They speak

up. They defend the things they hold dear. A cowgirl might be a reiner, or a hunter

jumper, or a barrel racer, or a dressage rider. But she's just as likely to be a checker at

the local grocery store, a full-time mother, a banker, an attorney, an… Continue

What is the Perfect Horse? I think most of us have daydreamed of it-- images

of a majestic black stallion with a flowing mane and tail, or golden palomino

mare with a perfect blaze come to mind. But I don't think that is the Perfect

Horse. I think the Perfect Horse is more like the one that I rode as a kid on the

ranch, a horse that is less of a fantasy and more of a teacher and friend. The

Perfect Horse isn't… Continue

The principle development of the Quarter Horse was in the southwestern part of the United States in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, eastern Colorado, and Kansas.



Some breed historians have maintained that it is the oldest breed of horses in the United States and that the true beginning of the Quarter Horse was in the Carolinas and Virginia.



Some suggest that the Chickasaws secured from the Indians were the true beginning of… Continue