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hoofcare.blogspot.com
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| | | | | The lightning-bolt connection between three-day event riders, horses and farriers is magical when it strikes and all three emerge from a top competition effort safe and sound and happy. But what about when the relationship is more than professional? The Badminton Horse Trials Farrier Prize is awarded to the best-shod horse at the famous three-day event. The back-weary shoeing judge patiently picks up hoof after hoof after hoof, as if searching for Cinderella's glass slipper beneath more than 70 17-hand event horses. | |
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www.rural-revolution.com
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| | | | | A reader sent me this photo of an "inbred cat." It gave me a chuckle. | |
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www.horsejournals.com
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| | | | | A brother and sister had made their usual hurried, obligatory pre-Christmas visit to the little farm, where dwelt their elderly parents with a small herd of horses. The farm was where they had grown up. It had been named Lone Pine Farm because of the huge pine, which topped the hill behind the farmhouse. | |
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marylandgrows.umd.edu
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| | | Soil thermometer. Photo: A. Bodkins Sunshine, increasing temperatures, warm rain showers, and the return of migratory birds are all signs that Spring is getting closer. They are all reasons to be excited about Spring and all the possibilities that the new gardening season will hold. It's always tempting to go out and start sowing seeds... | ||