{"id":2780,"date":"2019-05-20T23:28:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T05:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2019-05-20T23:28:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T05:28:26","slug":"horses-past-and-maybe-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2780","title":{"rendered":"Horses: past and maybe future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year–I think I posted about this–I bought three mares, serially.\u00a0\u00a0 Mocha, a very pretty smoky buckskin half-Arab, half Quarter Horse cross…bucked me off hard the first time I swung a leg over her–before I was mounted completely–and gave me a concussion, and kicked my husband in the thigh in the same tantrum.\u00a0\u00a0 Not meant to be my horse partner, not at my age.<\/p>\n

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Molly, a much gentler red dun Quarter Horse, merely refused to walk around with me on her back (the trainer I’d hired to work on Mocha–who was also bucked off after a month of no bucking, had found Molly for me.)\u00a0\u00a0 Molly tried to drag my leg along fences, backed up in circles, etc.\u00a0 Molly turned out to be an excellent kid horse, though, and one of the kids taking lessons on her found that Molly loved running barrels.\u00a0 Former owner had no idea.\u00a0 Mocha now lives on a ranch in California, where she’s been perfect for the rancher.\u00a0 Molly now lives with a family whose daughter wants to do barrel racing.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd then there was Kallie, an Arabian mare I found online, and went to look at with my trainer–trail and endurance horse, supposedly, but when we got there she was lame in three legs, with a mouthful of teeth that hadn’t been cared for along with the feet.\u00a0 But she gave me the look horses have given me before so I bought her in September.\u00a0 Of the three lame legs, my trainer and I got two of them disease free…but the third foot finally couldn’t be fixed, and in early May we put her to rest.\u00a0\u00a0 I did get to ride her some, and she was a lot of fun.\u00a0 We got along perfectly–she was a sweet and willing mare who wanted to please.\u00a0 I knew it was a risk when I bought her and I don’t regret it.<\/p>\n

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\nSo now I’m horseless again, but taking lessons from my trainer on one of her horses…and I have another horse in my sights.\u00a0 Another Arabian (l like their personalities and their gaits)\u00a0 who maybe, I hope, will be the horse I need for the years to come.\u00a0\u00a0 Heading off to North Texas again to take a look at him in a few weeks.\u00a0 Grey, an inch taller than Kallie, and a really lovely horse.<\/p>\n

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Last year–I think I posted about this–I bought three mares, serially.\u00a0\u00a0 Mocha, a very pretty smoky buckskin half-Arab, half Quarter Horse cross…bucked me off hard the first time I swung a leg over her–before I was mounted completely–and gave me a concussion, and kicked my husband in the thigh in the same tantrum.\u00a0\u00a0 Not meant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}