Colorado State is fantastic. I've got a friend or two from High School that went there. I may be over in Colorado this summer working at an equine retreat! :) 

 

It is a shame there are less books geared towards older folks. There are some, but definitely the "my fuzzy wuzzy cute widdle pony" type outnumber the others, haha. I'm a big fan of Riding Lessons and Flying Changes by Sara Gruen. (She wrote Water for Elephants). I also read one once called "Trading Paper". It was really rough, I think self-published (lots of typos), but it was a good look into the Arabian industry, with a bit of crime/detective twist (not my style at all, but it was good). Currently I'm reading An Eventful Life (link here). It's interesting thus far; short interviews/bios of some of Australia's biggest eventing riders. :)

hi willo. hope we can be friends

Hi Willow.  I'm glad to be your friend.

Tell your mom that the only reason I am still walking is because I ride horses.  Before I re-started riding I wore out an electric wheelchair.  I did not have to replace it because of the physical therapy riding gives me.

Besides, I just love riding and training horses though I can't really do much any more.  I just told my riding teacher when I started that I was ideal to school lesson horses because they would learn to obey a less than perfect rider, shaky and without good balance.  But then I already knew how to ride and had trained some horses so I know what I am doing.

My neurologist's eyes start to glaze over as I repeatedly proclaim how the outside of a horse is good for anybody.

Yeah! I think maybe the girl had one leg shorter than the other, too. Maybe that was another one I read. I'm kind of a horse-book nut. 

 

I'll be starting my Equine Science course this fall with University of Guelph. I'll be taking one class at a time since it's rather rigorous, though. :) Hopefully we can learn some cool stuff together! I'd love to bounce ideas back and forth.

Welcome to Barnmice, Willow! :) Very glad to be friends with you on here! Maybe we can share our Equine Science knowledge together as we learn? Your name reminds me a book I read when I was younger called "Willow King" (book on Amazon) - What a strange coincidence! :)