Horse Previews - January 2012

Gallop Stallion Services Charity AuctionTo Benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities of Spokane

Sunday, January 29th • NoonNorthern Quest Resort and Casino’s Family Pavilion

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Join Us for Gallop’s 29th AnnualSTALLION SERVICES AUCTION

Northern Quest CasinoSunday, January 29th, 2012

Do not miss this year’s Gallop! The Auction

is offering an incredible line-up of stallions from all over the United States with breeding fees ranging from $500 to $5600 per service. This year’s lineup includes Congress & National Champions, and World & Reserve World Champions. Nearly half of the line-up are Two-Time World or Reserve World Champions, while many are Leading Sires in the Industry!

The event opens at 11am, with the Opening Ceremony kicking off at 12 Noon. You can bid while attending the event, or on-line as the entire auction

is being streamed live on the internet, allowing for National and International bidding. You are also welcome to call in and bid via telephone.

There is no better time to shake that cabin fever. The Gallop Annual Charity Stallion Services Auction and Ronald McDonald House Charities of Spokane look forward to seeing you all on Sunday, January 29, 2012 at the Northern Quest Resort and Casino Family Pavillion. Northern Quest is located at N. 100 Hayford Road, Airway Heights, WA.

Whether you’ve attended the Gallop once, or twenty times… come join us for the 29th Annual Gallop Event. For further information, contact Gallop Coordinator, Barbara Turner at 509-990-4267.


Toscafire is sired by Afire Bey V (for 10 years the leading sire at the U.S. Nationals). His dam, Matoskette, was Scottsdale Reserve Champion in English Pleasure. She is by Zodiac Matador who is a three-time U.S. National Champion in Park. Matoskette’s tail female line includes Mi Toska, who was a Canadian National Champion Mare and U.S. National Champion in Pleasure Driving. Mi Toska also earned a U.S. National Top Ten in English Pleasure and Mare Halter.

Toscafire is a full brother to Afire’s Vision (who currently stands at Battaglia Farms). Toscafire has a very impressive pedigree without a doubt. He also has an equally impressive show record and is siring foals that are following in his footsteps.

Toscafire was last shown in 2010. He stayed home in 2011 to breed mares. He has multiple regional titles – Top 5’s, Reserve’s and Champion’s and ended the 2010 show season with a Canadian National Top 10 Award. Toscafire has been shown Park, Costume, Side Saddle, and Show Hack. He has a very gentle disposition and is extremely easy to be around. Under saddle he has a BIG motor with an even bigger heart.

Toscafire’s son, Sparkssafire, earned 2 Canadian Top 10 titles in 2011. Toscafire has foals with Scottsdale and regional titles. One of his purebred foals has had a very successful endurance career. To date, Toscafire has sired 9 foals. He has proven himself as a show horse and as a sire.

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Just around the corner, scheduled for Sunday, January 29, 2012 at the Northern Quest Resort and Casino, the Annual

Gallop Stallion Service Auction takes place. Once again, pre-sented by Rhodes River Ranch, the upcoming auction will mark its 29th year. The event will kick off at 12:00 noon, PST, enabling national and international locations to participate in the bidding. All the stallions will be presented on 30’ screens at the event, while Internet on-lookers will be able to watch the event streamed live to their computers. They will see a flashing toll free number, place a call to one of the Gallop phone operators, and bid on services of any stallion, or vaca-tion packages in the line-up.

This is your opportunity to help a family in crisis who needs to be with their child in a hospital. How can you do

that? Well, first mark your calen-dars for Sunday, January 29, 2012 for one of the Na-tion’s most suc-cessful fund-rais-ing Equine Events - the Gallop Stal-lion Services Auc-tion!

It’s Time for the 29th Annual Gallop Stallion Services Auction

Gallop Operators answering every phone linewhen bidders call in on the popular stallions!

The Annual Gallop Charity Auction is rated as one of the best in the country for offered services! It has been professed, to feature a very impressive lineup. Every year, new stallion owners join the ranks of current Gallop stallion donors in wanting to support the mission! This year’s event has stal-lions participating from Kentucky, Washington, Texas, Califor-nia, Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Georgia, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, South Da-kota, Ohio, Iowa, Oregon, and Minnesota. Stallion breeding fees range from $500 to $5,600 per service. “We like to keep a pocket book range for everyone to have the chance to be a part of the event, mission, and heighten the bar of their breeding program,” explained Gallop Event Manager, Barbara Turner. This year’s auction offers services to National & Con-gress Champions, World & Reserve Champions (nearly half of the line-up are two-time World Champions, while others are five times or more World Champions). Many of you will recognize their names, as they are leading sires of their breed, producing World and Reserve World Champion offspring. You will have the opportunity to purchase services to some of the finest Halter, Western Pleasure, Hunt Seat, Working Cow, Cut-ting, and Reining stallions in the world!

Each year, with compassion for the mission, close to 50 new stallion donors contact the Gallop Coordinator offering a breeding to the auction. The Gallop process allows previous


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stallion owners to have first rights of refusal. After this step, review of new applicants that want to participate takes place. Generally, only half a dozen (if that) spots are open. Some-times this causes a new stallion to be placed late, with months of lost advertising. In fairness to a late placed stallion, Gallop feels obligated to give special mention of his participation.

The 2012 Gallop Auction offers yet another great Reining Horse to its lineup: NRHA Open Derby Co-Reserve Champion, Whizkey N Diamonds. Now owned by Rhodes River Ranch, Whizkey N Diamonds has been a steady performer since the start of his young career. He is the earner of LTE over $213,000; is the 2011 NRHA Shootout Reserve Champion; 2011 Open Derby Reserve Champion; 2011 NRBC Open Derby, 4/5th Place; 2011 Wimpys Little Step Open Derby Champion; 2009 NRHA Open Futurity, 3rd place; 2009 High Roller Open Rein-

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Earner, 3rd place. He was, additionally, the Gordyville Open Derby 2011 Champion. Whizkey N Diamonds is a son of Top-sail Whiz; NRHA Hall of Fame, NRHA Six Million Dollar Sire; the 2010 NRHA #1 Leading Sire and #1 All-Time Leading Sire; having sired the earners of over $7,752,000. His dam, Princess In Diamonds, is sired by Shining Spark. She was the 2009 NRHA & Equi-Stat #1 Leading Reining Dam and 2010 #12 All Time Leading Reining Dam. She is the dam of 25 foals, 13 of performance, including three 3-year-olds by Smart Chic Olena, and 9 performers earning a total of over $342,423. Whizkey N Diamonds is bred to perfection and has the distinct ability to perform at the top level every time he enters the show arena. This promising young stallion is one worth watching. With earnings already over $213,000, he has a bright future ahead. Whizkey N Diamonds entered the stud barn in the spring of 2011. Rhodes River Ranch is looking forward to the 2012 first foal crop to hit the ground. With his tremendous talent and top pedigree, he will undoubtedly produce many champions that share his natural athleticism, incredible looks and huge stops! Here is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor of what’s certain to be one of the most sought after sires in the industry.

The 2012 stallion lineup is closed, while the website is nearing its completion on the non-service auction items. This is the time when you should do some homework on the mare care facilities, costs, and breeding procedures of stal-lion services and ranches that are of interest to you. It also gives you an opportunity to take a close-up look at these stallions. Visit the Gallop website for more insightful informa-

Reining stallion Whizkey N Diamonds, closesthe line up down for 2012.

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tion at: www.gallopauction.com. If you are looking at transporting semen, be sure to research by Internet or contact those stallion owners prior to the event to find out what your costs will be. In addition, check on what their “Live Foal Guarantee” con-sists of. Those costs will be between you, the successful bidder, and the stallion own-ers or breeding farms.

Don’t think you can make it to the event? Pre-bidding is currently being taken, or bid

live the day of the Gallop event, Sunday, January 29th, with one of the Gallop telephone operators. Just go to the web-site at: www.gallopauction.com, and starting at 11:00 AM PST, you will find within the Gallop template, a flashing toll free number to call. Have your credit card ready for the informa-tion that the operator will be asking, and try not to call in earlier then one or two services before the service you’re interested in hits the auction block. Not going to be near a computer the day of the event? On the road, working, hauling home from a horse show? Maybe you’re not confident with your dial up speed, or you’re not computer friendly. Let Barb Turner know ahead of time and arrangements can be made to contact you before your interested service comes up on the

auction block.

Event underwriter, Rhodes River Ranch, returns in their 11th year presenting the Gallop Event. They are located at the foothills of the Cascades, just an hour and a half north of Seattle/Tacoma International Airport in beautiful Arlington, WA. The ranch is dedicated to breeding, raising and train-ing future world champion performance horses and provid-ing top quality service to their clients. They also offer some of the finest performance prospects with bloodlines such as, Peptoboonsmal, High Brow Cat, Soula Jule Star, Nic It In The Bud, Starlights Joy, Shine By The Bay, CD Olena, Topsail Whiz, TR Dual Rey, CD Lights, and Shine Like Hail. They wel-come visitors to tour their site and/or contact them for more information regarding a service, stallion, sales or just to visit. To learn more about the ranch, go to www.rhodesriverranch.com. The Gallop Charity Auction is indebted to Jean Rhodes and all other sponsors for making it possible.

The non-service packages in Gallop’s Auction will be as outstanding as the breeding services! Non-service packages are auctioned off in between breeding services. They offer many in the Equine Industry, an opportunity to additionally support and participate who don’t have mares to breed, or any horses for that matter. These packages will continue to be added through the last week prior to the auction, so keep checking back on the website for additions.

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The Gallop will be broadcast live over the Internet allowing bidders to have the opportunity to call in on a toll free phone line to bid on

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Jet Boat Tour for 2, from Killgore Adventures; Artist Stephen Lyman’s ‘Sunset Fire’ Limited Edition Art Print professionally framed by Added Touch Framing; 2 Halter Show Packages from Woods Western with a Slinky from Robinhoods; Limited Edition Painted Ponies package from the artist themselves: Vickie Knepper-Adrian, Lynn Bean, and Maria Ryan. An Acoustic Guitar, hand signed in-person by one of the young-est artists to be inducted into the Grand Ole Oprey … Dierks Bentley.

Or, maybe you’d be inter-ested in bidding on Gallop’s 7 night, 8 day ‘Caribbean Cruise’ for 2, aboard Celebri-ty. This package will include a balcony room, special on board Bridge Tour or Gallery Tour, priority tender and dis-embarkation, one night seat-ing at the Captain’s table, and

Celebrity Cruise being offered at this year’s 2012 Gallop Auction.


Reserve World, and Congress Champions! Gallop & the Ron-ald McDonald House Charities are indebted to all the donors who make this event possible! You need to come on down and get involved with the silent auction, Gallop festivities, and enjoy the opening ceremony kick off!

Watch as the stage comes alive filled with talent and enter-tainment that will astound you! Gallop’s Opening Ceremony at 12 Noon PST, brings Actress & Singer Valerie Stichweh to the stage. She has been performing at the Gallop event for over a decade entertaining the audience and Internet viewers along with the highly skilled performers, comedians, and ac-tors ... Randy Wilcox and Kevin Wakefield. As in past years, they are sure to create a festive vibe and bring spectators to their feet!

With all of this excite-ment, don’t forget the primary mission. All net proceeds from the Gallop Stallion Services Auction go to the Ronald McDon-ald House Charities of Spokane, enabling them to continue serving hun-dreds of families.

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Gift baskets like this one lined the Silent Auction tables.

in one of the hotel bars or improve your handicap at the nearby golf course, with round trip airfare for 2. Each week check back with Gallop’s web-site as new and exciting items are added.

But the excitement doesn’t end here! Only for those attend-ing the event, are the silent auc-tion tables. If it’s sports teams that spark your interest you’ll find a full sized Wilson Basket-ball which is autographed by

the 2009-10 Pittsburgh Panthers on one of the auction tables. Autographs include Head Coach Jamie Dixon, Ashton Gibbs, Gary Mchee, Nasir Robinson, Nick Rivers, Dante Taylor, Travon Woodall, Chase Adams, Brad Wanamaker, Jermaine Dixon, Talib Zanna, Tin Frye, and JJ Richardson. Other ad-ditional items on the tables will include: tickets to Triple Play and Silverwood Theme Park; Dining Certificates; Gift baskets from Cool Beans, Coeur d’Alene Casino, Edible Arrangements and Sweetwater Bakery; a $200 gift certificate from Hickman Saddlery, a halter package from Cocolalla Creek Ranch, deep massages from Medical Spas; beautiful Western Art from Big R Ranch – Trent; a ton of Barn Dry from Aslin-Finch Feeds; and much, much more!

But, let’s not forget the back bone of the event ... 52 stal-lion services offered to Leading Sires in our Industry: World,

Randy Wilcox & Val Stichweh singingat Gallop’s Opening Ceremony.

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Adriana also realized that through it all she was not alone; she was supported, cared for, and encouraged by other mothers who were experiencing the same anxiet-ies as she. For Lexi, her home was 100 miles away, but she never felt alone. Lexi knew she wasn’t alone fighting cancer; she had the support of a huge new family, the Ronald McDonald House family.

“We are forever grateful to the House. When a child is ill, it is the entire family who battles the disease. Lexi never felt alone in her battle. She knew that her battle was our battle. We fought together and we won,” said Adriana. Today, Lexi is 11 years old and has been diagnosed cancer-free.

— ---Adriana

Stories like the one above are the reality for a multitude of families living at the Ronald McDonald House. Fortunately, people like you, support the mission when participating in the Gallop Event!

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Spokane is indebt-ed to Gallop’s Sponsors, Donors, Committee Members, and Stallion Owners for their support in both the RMHC mission and Gallop Auction. You can be a part of the RMHC family. You can make a direct impact on the life of a child today. Ronald McDonald House Charities of Spokane looks forward to seeing you all at the Gallop Stallion Service Auction on Sunday, January 29, 12:00 PM for a “Fun”-raising event. For more information about Gallop, or the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Spokane, please contact Barbara Turner at 509/990-4167.

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WHY NO FARMER POETRY?Cowboy poetry is one of my efforts. I do my best but

sometimes when I am in the corn belt or entertaining the Western Pistachio Growers, I’m asked why I don’t do more farmer poetry? I try to explain to them that cowboy poetry is about wrecks; horse wrecks, cow wrecks, sheep wrecks, dog wrecks, financial wrecks, Tyrannosaurus wrecks, the never-ending wrecks.

For instance, when someone tells a story about a horse buckin’ over the haystack and dumping the cowboy into the pig pen, or a rancher missing a cow in the chute then getting run over while he’s trying to check her teeth, or the vet wrapping the calving chain over his wrist then looping the other end over the nearly-born calf’s feet followed by the inevitable escape, or the mama cow chasing the cowboy around the pickup and through the cab whilst he tries to ear tag said calf…everybody listening is laughing their heads off!

For some reason a cowboy getting bucked off or run over, plowed down, drug through the cattails, trampled, stomped or butted, is funny! I’m not sure why. I can think of two

ON THE EDGE OF COMMON SENSEby Baxter Black, DVM

possible explanations; #1 -The Cowboy Mentality and #2 - the Cow herself

The Cowboy Mentality is an attitude, a view of life, an ability to focus so intently on one thing that other parts of the picture are blocked out. Like he’s standing on a railroad track at night, concentrating on the headlamp so hard he does not see the locomotive behind it!

This tunnel vision Cowboy Mentality makes it feasible for cowboys to step right into an obvious trap that others would normally avoid. It often starts with the cowboy saying, “Whataya mean I can’t ride that horse?” or “Go ahead and let off on the squeeze, I think I can hold her!” or “Don’t worry, dogs really like me.”

Then you mix this mentality with #2, the Humble Cow. There is a fine line between the “Fight or Flight” behavioral mechanism in the bovine. But the cowboy always seems to be straddling the divide with a leg on either side when the cow makes her decision, Fight or Flight? Either way the cowboy gets run over so it all works out.

Thus, it’s the idea that one of God’s dumbest creatures seems to regularly outwit our cowboy Hero, and that makes it funny!

On the other hand, farmer wrecks are always about machinery. Hanging your Carhartt coverall sleeve in the PTO and being stripped naked in a nanosecond or getting run down by a robotic controlled chemical spraying drone, doesn’t really illicit large guffaws. So that’s why I don’t write more farmer poetry. Of course, there’s always the one about the farmer’s daughter!

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Ann Kirk’s - Backing For A Great Stop - Part 2Happy New Year for 2012! I am

looking forward to working with many old friends this coming year and to making lots of new ones as we come together on our continu-ing journey with the horse. Work-ing with and learning from horse people is one of my favorite pas-sions in this life and I look forward to meeting and greeting many in this coming year.

So where were we? Last article, I left you working on ground work for teaching and improving the backup on your horse. But, the reason we work on the ground is to make it easier and safer to teach from the saddle. So, if you are ready and have done your homework, you are ready to mount up and teach the backing lesson from the saddle. Get your mount caught up, groomed up, tacked up and warmed up and let’s get started.

This exercise from the saddle is the same sequence you use from the ground. It is known as Hip/Shoulder/Shoul-der because you move the hip over while stopping the near shoulder, then step the far shoulder back. Your horse should already know the Hip/Shoulder part from all the hip disen-gagement you have already practiced. By building upon a maneuver the horse already understands, it makes it easier to

get the right answer. And by teaching it one-reined, it is easier to avoid the bracing that is common with two.

Keeping this Hip/Shoulder/Shoulder sequence in mind helps you keep focused while you work and your focus pro-duces clearer cues which, in turn, make it easier for your horse to understand and respond correctly. When you think about the next step before actually applying pressure, your body makes subtle changes that the horse picks up on and then he is prepared to make a quicker, lighter response.

To begin this lesson, warm your horse up with some walk-ing and/or trotting serpentines. Then work on disengaging the hips in sets of 20 reps on one side, then 20 on the other. As you pick up on the rein, take note of how much pressure it takes to get the correct response. You are wanting your horse to stop his forward movement, pivot on the inside shoulder while stepping the required hip over on a light cue. He should come to a complete stop and wait until you ask him to go forward again. If he walks off before you cue, immediately pick up the same rein and ask the hip to move again.

Don’t get in a hurry at this step. You might need to take a few days to get the rein really connected to the hip for a light, quick response. By taking the slack out slowly and then adding pressure in 3 second increments, your horse will get used to responding on a light cue to avoid the increased pres-sure. For the really lazy horse, add a little more impulsion by bumping with both legs after you pick up the rein and ask for

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the hip to move.

The next step is to take the outside shoulder back. You will still be working in sets of 20. Ask your horse to walk forward, pick up the left rein and ask the hip to step over 2 steps. Re-lease the pressure but don’t drop the rein. Pick up the slack again while keeping the rein close to his neck and thinking back. Don’t apply too much pressure and don’t put the rein on his neck; just take the slack out, add a little more and wait. His first correct response may be no more than a lean back-wards at which you will release immediately to reward the thought. Work up to giving just mini-releases on the lean but don’t fully release until you get the right shoulder and foot to take a step back.

In the beginning, your horse will probably think you are asking him to disengage his hip again but do not release. Keep the rein in close to the neck while thinking about the shoulder stepping back. Don’t try to force it by pulling harder but don’t give in until the horse moves back. Even if he is still moving the hip, if he steps back with the right front, release the slack. Each time, wait 5-10 seconds before asking him to walk forward again and starting over. Vary the amount of forward steps each rep. Take your time in the beginning and give the horse time to discover the correct response. If you lay the foundation carefully, it will be easy to refine it and add speed.

When the horse begins to understand to step back after disengaging the hip, give a mini-release but wait for him to give to the bit before giving a full release. Gradually, you can

eliminate moving the hip first by moving the rein in closer to the neck when tak-ing the slack out. When he is backing well using each rein individually, you can add the outside rein after the inside one to straighten his head even more.

Remember to complete one step at a time. Also note that backing is strenuous on the horse’s muscles so only work 10-20 minutes at a time on this lesson without giving him a break. You can work on other forward exercises for at least 15 minutes and then you can do more backing but don’t overdo it or he will get sore and sluggish. Spread this lesson over several days and your horse will be backing and stop-ping great in no time.

The backing and stopping exercises are also great to prac-tice out on the trails. But that will have to be another article. So, until next time,

—God Bless and stay safe, Ann Ann Kirk is available for clinics or lessons in your area. She also

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Keeping Trails Open To EquestriansBy Ken Carmichael

I imagine that many of us who read the Horse Previews are active horsemen and have an interest in keeping trails open for riding. As more private land becomes developed, and public land becomes more restrictive, this issue becomes more and more urgent.

The Inland Empire Chapter of Back Country Horsemen of Washington (IEBCH), located in Spokane, has a mission “to preserve and enhance the rights of responsible horsemen to use horses and mules on public land.” We do this in several ways.

First, in our education program we teach and follow the seven principles of Leave No Trace (LNT) along with other subjects of interest. Second, we work with land managers providing on the ground volunteer services to design, build and maintain trails and trailheads for equestrian use. Third, we work with the various legislative bodies, and other deci-sion makers, to ensure that the equestrian interests are pro-tected. Fourth, we work with many land managers providing input on land issues.

In addition, we must have an adequate support staff to ensure that IEBCH is a viable, legal and financially sound organization.

All of the above is a big challenge but we feel it is worth the effort to ensure trails are open to us and future gener-ations. However, to be successful requires many hands on

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Where do you stand? Are having trails open im-portant to you? Right now IEBCH needs volunteer leaders, and workers, to help with this important mission. We invite you to join us in a major role. We are in need of leadership in specific roles such as Legislative and Lands. Support workers are needed in these areas as well as a variety of other important functions such as Education and Trail Work.

IEBCH is one of 33 chapters of Back Country Horsemen of Washington (BCHW). We are affiliated with the Back Country Horsemen of America (BCHA) and are a volunteer, non-prof-it, 501C3 tax exempt organization. We welcome all support to accomplish our mission. Membership meetings are held the fourth Tuesday of each month. More information can be found at www.iebch.com and www.bchw.org.

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The Barbed Wire InternetKrisean Performance Horses “Life With the Blue-Eyed Wonders” by Jill Smith

It’s a crisp winter day as I shut down Facebook, turn off my computer and head out the door to do a little face to face

time with my stallions. Won’t be long and it will be breeding season again and we will rapidly go from cool and calm to hot and excited while visions of mares dance through stallion heads.

Oh, oh, Commander, my perlino Quarter Horse stallion, looks worried about something. His head is down and he’s leaning against the wire fence mumbling to himself. I’ve

learned that when you have a horse that talks, it’s not unusual to find him talking to himself. My husband does that too and as he gets older and harder of hearing he talks to himself louder!

“So Commander, what are you mumbling about?” I ventured to ask. “Hay! Do we have enough hay for the winter?” His blue eyes were genuinely concerned as he trotted up to me. Mares and hay were the two biggest interests of his life! “There’s a hay shortage all over the west and there just might not be any more available till harvest time!”

“So just where did you hear about the hay shortage?” I knew about this and had stocked up, but how did Commander know this?

“It’s all over the internet; all the horses are talking about it.” He calmed down a bit and gave me his most intense blue eyed look. “The stallions down in Texas are really worried; no hay means hungry bellies and fewer mares to breed as no one wants more mouths to feed!”

“Wait, just wait a minute. How can horses get on the internet?” I looked around half expecting to find a computer or Blackberry tucked in a corner. You never know what smart horses can come up with and between my stallions they were constantly surprising me.



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Commander gave me another blue eye piercing look. “You humans think you invented the internet but horses have been using the Barbed Wire Internet for years before you caught on and installed it in your little computer boxes. Let me give you a little history lesson, cowgirl.”

Barbed wire was invented in France in about 1860 and then popularized on the western plains of the US through the 1870s. The introduction of barbed wire in the West dramatically reduced the cost of enclosing large areas of land. This led to disputes known as the range wars between free-range ranchers and farmers in the late 19th century. When legal courts settled in favor of the farmers, it became a felony to cut a barbed wire fence to let cattle through to better grazing lands. In short time, nearly all of the open range became fenced in and under private ownership. For this reason, many historians have dated the end of the Old West era of American history to the invention and then proliferation of barbed wire fences.

“About that time, horses found that they could communicate through the wire by nuzzling it and sending messages along the miles of fence to listening horses along the way.” Commander continued. “Then one very smart horse, I’m sure he was a Quarter Horse stallion, figured out a way for the messages to go barbed-wireless. Now we horses communicate with each other all over the country.”

I was stunned! Could this possibly be true? I knew that horses have their own way of talking with each other but this was truly amazing. Unless you have a horse that talks to you,

you just don’t know these things!

“But stay tuned, cowgirl, horses have come up with an even better way to communicate! We’ve found that even with all the technical advancements of the Barbed Wire Internet it just can’t take the place of muzzle to muzzle time.” Commander had a soft, dreamy look in his blue eyes now as he said. “All the smart horses have quit spending hours huddled up against a cold, impersonal, electronic barbed wire and instead are spending more time just talking over fences.”

Commander was fondly looking at the mare pasture. “We dumb animals have figured out that true communication is face to face and eye to eye. I wouldn’t want to spend time with a wire when I could be gently nibbling the neck of a mare, sharing breath muzzle to muzzle or even trading stallion horse jokes over the fence with Timer.”

I was mesmerized with some of this horse logic and quietly turned my new iPhone off and slipped it in my back pocket. Then I laid down the iPad that had been under my arm and stacked my Nook that had been under my other arm on top of it. I removed the compact portable computer that was in my purse and set it aside with my earphone. Then I just started petting my great white stallion and he nuzzled me back.

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Horse Power

VETERINARY KNOWLEDGE

AGELESSHORSEMANSHIP

In my early college years I took a Shakespeare

class. I don’t remember much about any of the plays we studied. I was more interested in a couple of cute girls in the class. The one thing that has stuck in my mind over the years was a button our instructor wore on her lapel every day. It had the image of Shakespeare and the words “Will Power”. She was passionate about her subject.

For the past several years there has been a lot

of press about the many unwanted horses in our country. Those of us who are highly involved in the horse industry are rightly worried about this problem. We wonder about the security of our livelihood. We wonder if the species for which we have so much passion is in serious jeopardy.

This is not a new phenomenon. In the early part of the 20th century there may have been more horses in the country than at any other time in history. Horses are what made things tick and move. We relied upon horses for nearly all we did. With the advent of the internal combustion engine, there were many who thought the horse was done for good. He would no longer be useful, wanted or needed. “Good-bye to the hay burner and hello to the gas burner” they said. Fortunately they were wrong.

Ironically, those who built the engines we rely upon so much today coined a phrase using the very species they thought they would make extinct, “Horse Power”. Every year when the newest and greatest vehicles roll off the assembly line one of the most important specifications is how much horse power they have. More horse power helps us go faster and do more work easier. The more the better!

I would like to suggest another way we can use the term “Horse Power”, borrowing the idea from my old instructor’s button. Those of us who promote “Horse Power” are passionate about the species, just as my instructor was about William Shakespeare. Horses are a very important part of our culture. I was talking to a friend not long ago who asked me, “what ever possessed you to ride broncs?” He supposed anyone who



would consciously ride a bucking horse was somewhat crazy. I thought about his question and answered that it probably had something to do with the culture in which I was raised, the horse and rodeo culture of southern Idaho. Riding broncs well was something the people in the community admired. I was even given a scholarship to do it. Some of us

may just have an inner sense of being drawn to the species, an unexplainable affinity for horses, like a magnet. We may hanker for some of the old ways or the by gone days. We love the smell of their breath, the softness of their muzzle, the kindness of their eye, their willingness to give us a ride. We love horses. And, no matter what way we love them, we promote “Horse Power”.

So here’s to all of you who get up every day and spread the hay and scoop the poop. Here’s to those who raise babies. Here’s to those who take care of their feet. Here’s to those who help kids or handicapped people or people with mental disabilities or those who need hippotherapy

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(physical therapy) with horses. Here’s to those who have equine rescue programs or try to find good homes for horses that need a career change. Here’s to those who patiently train the youngsters to overcome their fears and learn how to be contributing members of society. Here’s to those who grow food for horses and bale the hay and mill the feed. Here’s to the pharmaceutical and other companies who think enough about the horse to commit a portion of their resources to research, development and production of equine products. Here’s to my colleagues who devote their careers to the conception, birth, health, well being and soundness of the horse. Here’s to those who ride and drive and train and show and compete and enjoy horses every day of their lives, or every other day or even once in a while. Here’s to more “Horse Power”, the more the better!

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New Year Sale! Will Rogers Saddle Co. has over 300 new & used saddles in stock! Great deals on blankets, new & used! Tough 1, Weatherbeeta, Saxon, Kensing- ton, best prices ever! Great selection of trail saddles, $195 & up, including 15” Circle Y. Full line of Crates saddles 15” to 17”. Dou- ble J Barrel saddle, plus good selection of other barrel saddles, new & used. Also have Bob Avila Reiner, and a used Bob’s Work- ing Cowhorse, plus a Martin Reiner. Come in and see! Buy, sell, trade. Become our friend on Facebook for daily deals! www.- willrogerssaddle.com 509/466-0106 Mead

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Vintage Horse Training. Specializing In gaining respect and control on the ground, and creating a calm, confident horse under saddle. Athol, ID. Call Abby, 208/683- 0372. [email protected]

Horseshoeing, Over 20 Years Of experience! Call Chad Gundlach 509/325-6549

Totally Remodeled 3 Bedroom Rancher on rare acre of horse property, corral set-up. 2 car garage and 2 large shops 26x30 & 24x36 with roll up 12x22 RV door with 220 power. RV power & water hookup. On sewer, 5 minutes from Y. Great water! Base- ment bedroom is non-egress. $174,900 Tommy & Ele Mackay Re- max of Spokane 509/922-3000 or 509/468-2500

Aliscia Kay, 208/691-6928. Training, (colt starting, trail/show training) lessons, hauling, sales. References available. www.doublekhorsemanship.com

10% Down 14.25 Acres, 6000sq.ft. 4 bedroom, 3 bath home with 52x60 shop! Call MaryAlice 509/714-8144 Soleil Realty, Spokane

4 Stall Horse Barn, Hay Barn, 4 bedroom, 4 bath home, in-law set up on 20+ acres. Owner contract available! $274,999 Call MaryAlice 509/714- 8144 Soleil Realty Barefoot Trimming. 4B-S.A.I.D.

transitional method assures hoof soundness over the winter. Be ready for Spring riding. 509/456-5555 leave message

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