Posts belonging to Category 'Horses Past'

Spain – 1986

Once upon a time I went to Spain to work with horses. Actually, I wore two hats…personal riding instructor to Patricia and part-time nanny to her youngest daughter. The nanny portion was infrequent but the horses played a prominent role during my time there.
I was working as a riding instructor at Claremont Riding Academy in [...]

Puddles

I once bought a cute little 2 year old paint mare for $250.00. At the time, horses were more expensive. Nowadays finding a free horse is fairly easy but back then horses were costing a bit more. I was pretty pleased with myself for swinging this deal.

A Blur of Horses

Since I was a little girl, as far back as my memory can take me, I have had the ‘horse bug’. My Dad and Stepmother had a couple of Shetland ponies for me and my brother when we were 6 and 8. We only got to ride them when we spent our summers with our [...]