The Hardest Part
Was there ever anything harder than closing a farm? It’s never easy selling horses, even when that’s what you supposedly do for a living. Compound that – sell all of…
ReadmoreAlligator-Proof
Why would a horse be afraid of a baby alligator, anyway? When I was a kid, I spent some time boarding at a stable which served as a home base…
ReadmoreThat One True Calling
Oftentimes, a lot of effort is put into finding a horse’s true calling. When you get a retired racehorse into your barn, you can’t help but immediately begin profiling him,…
ReadmoreTwo Months of Riding
As I rode Final Call today, I realized it’s been two months since he came home with me. In some ways it feels like a lot longer – his sweet…
ReadmoreClaustrophobia
It’s been raining for, oh, I don’t know, decades? And as my Union Square Stables readers know, I live in a swamp. Sort of. It’s a flood-plain of the bicentennial…
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