We are a family oriented farm that lives life together. This is a diary of our lives together, and the ramblings of me, the trainer.

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Clemson End of Summer Show

Thursday, April 10, 2008

High school

I got this forwarded in an e-mail today

If Horses Were in High School

Quarter Horses:
Definitely jocks Strutting around flexing those muscles, showing off their
butts...definitely jocks.

Thoroughbreds:
Preppies. Sometimes athletes, never 'jocks' Monogrammed blankets,
leather halters, Nike eventer shoes, the latest custom trailer and tack. They are the
'new money' rich.


Appaloosas:
Could only be the stoners. They like to trip acid so they can watch their spots move.

Arabians:
RAH! RAH! SIS BOOM BAH! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO .TEAM! (need I say more?)



Shetland Ponies:
Frightening, spiky hairdos, snotty attitudes and any color of the rainbow ....
Gotta be PUNKS. Some even sport tattoos.

Friesians:
Big, buff, and always in black, they are the biker clique. Cigs hanging out of the corner of
their mouths, dangerous glint in the eyes, daring anyone to cross their path.

Morgans:
They're the nerdy teacher's pets, running around doing everything from yearbook to decorating
the gym and ratting out the bikers, stoners and jocks. They have perpetual wedgies.

Drafts (all breeds):
No real clique, they're just the big guys who sit in the back of the room and fart a lot (and
then laugh).
Who's going to STOP them?


Icelandics and Paso Finos:
They're the little squirrely geeks who flit around a dance trying to fit in and fail miserably.
The kind who wear Toughskins jeans from Sears (or would that be rip off WeathaBeetas? )

Ahkle Tekl (Akle Takl? Ackle Tackle....!! Akhal Teke!!):
Foreign exchange student(s). And no one can spell their names either.


Hackney Ponies:
A breed this manic would have to be a band geek. Marching along with their knees and
heads held high.....even going to the bathroom.

Warmbloods:
Old Money Preppies, as opposed to the TBs who are new money preppies.

All their tack is imported from Europe, they drink Perrier water and eat only organically
grown feed. They look down on everyone and talk amongst themselves about summer in
Paris and skiing in Gstad and wasn't it dreadful how provincial Spruce Meadows has become?

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Shiloh's Tall Tale aka. Shoalih's Tale

Showing off my baby

The above slide show is pictures I've managed to accumulate of my pride and joy...Shiloh. These are all pictures I've found of him on the web. They start with him as a yearling at the Saratoga sale and go up through his winning at the race track. You will find more pictures of him in the bottom slide show at the Clemson show with one of my students aboard back in Dec. 2007. Hopefully I will be able to add some pictures of myself showing him in the near future.

You'll notice a couple of the pictures are during his time at Canter. Please check out their website at http://www.canterusa.org/ohio They are running on very hard times right now and every penny people can send their way is greatly appreciated by the horses. If everyone who checks our blog regularly could send just $5 they could feed a horse for a month.