January 2011 Blog Posts (49)

An Amazing Start to The New Year

Apart from the cold that is! I was so determined not to succumb to any more colds last year and I almost succeeded! Almost. On Thursday the 30th I woke up at 4am with a raging fever and a cough from nowhere. This is why I spent the New Year's Eve watching London's fireworks on TV. Admittedly, seeing the crowds gathered by London Eye I was very glad we didn't go there. It looked impressive and jolly though:…

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Added by Wiola Grabowska on January 4, 2011 at 6:30am — 2 Comments

Estimating final height

Hi: what have you experienced in your estimation of final height in a horse? is the string from knee to fetlock then pulled up effective? do you have another method which seems to work? what age do they work best from???? cheers

Added by vickie lawson on January 3, 2011 at 9:17pm — 3 Comments

winter horse injury

A few days ago my wife and I returned home from a one day family trip. Shortly after getting home we called the

stable where our horses are to…

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Added by Lawrence (Chuck) Cannon on January 3, 2011 at 7:37pm — 4 Comments

Man-O-Man-Oman! Olympian Christilot Boylen Shares her adventures in Oman! Final Post

The show has been a super success apparently,and has been on Oman TV running in full length...the papers are full of reports and pictures,and

last night at a gala dinner given fittingly I thought by the Ministry

of Finance,the Government of Oman congratulated and thanked the entire

crew and all performers in this gigantic event.

The bottom line...."The Sultan was very pleased!"

The three hunderd horses…

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Added by Barnmice Admin on January 3, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

The Experimenting Continues

After months of saving most of my spending money for Christmas I finally saved enough to spend some on myself--well, horsie stuff really. After my earlier experiment with a Myler bit I had been sort of disillusioned, but when I got home after realizing Mia did not have much room in her mouth I measured the thickness of the mouthpieces of several of my bits. The results were eye-opening. I finally realized that the thicker the bit was in the middle…

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Added by Jackie Cochran on January 2, 2011 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Man-O-Man-Oman!! Christilot Boylen's Updates from her adventure in Oman

A Barnmice Community News Feature:…

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Added by KatyM., Community News on January 2, 2011 at 5:00am — 1 Comment

Your January 2011 Horseyscope by Lauren Bode

Aries:

A year of major accomplishments, and happy changes. You are a risk taker, and this year all of your

attempts will pay off handsomely. You may be asked to travel quite a lot. Your chances of competing

are excellent, be brave and diplomatic and the year will be good to you. Your expression says it all.

Your horse is young and could be mistaking your aids, be patient with him, remember, only the most

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Added by Barnmice Admin on January 1, 2011 at 11:55am — No Comments

The Look Back, The Look Ahead. The Past, Present and Re-thinking the Future.

One thing that is both satisfying and disappointing in looking back at the year that has passed is trying to figure out what one should have learned, what one should avoid in the future and how to make the year ahead glorious and better [right?]. …

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Added by Wiola Grabowska on January 1, 2011 at 10:00am — 5 Comments