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10. Drop a heavy steel object on your foot. Don’t pick it up right away. Shout, “Get Off, Stupid! GET OFF!”9. Leap out of a moving vehicle and practice “relaxing into the fall.” Roll lithely into a ball and spring to your feet.

8. Learn to grab your checkbook out of your purse and write out a $200 check without even looking down.

7. Jog long distances carrying a halter and a carrot. Go ahead and tell the neighbors what you are doing; they might as well know now.

6. Affix a pair of reins to a moving freight train and practice pulling to a halt. Smile as if you are having fun.

5. Hone your fibbing skills: ” See, hon, moving hay bales is FUN! ” and, “no, really, I’m glad your lucky performance and multimillion dollar horse won the blue ribbon. I am just thankful that my hard work and actual ability won me second place”

4. Practice dialing your chiropractor’s number with both arms paralyzed to the shoulder and one foot anchoring the lead rope of a frisky horse.

3. Borrow the US Army’s slogan: Be All That You Can Be: bitten, thrown, kicked, slimed, trampled, frozen…

2. Lie face down in a puddle of mud in your most expensive riding clothes and repeat to yourself, ” This is a learning experience, this is a learning experience, this is…”

1. THE NUMBER ONE EXERCISE TO BECOME A BETTER EQUESTRIAN: Marry money.

 

If you do a thorough check of your trailer before hauling, you can be assured that your truck will break down.

There is no such thing as a sterile barn cat.

No one ever notices how you ride, until you fall off.

The least useful horse in your barn will eat the most, require shoes every four weeks and need the vet at least once a month!

A horse’s misbehavior will be in direct proportion to the number of people who are watching.

Tack you hate never wears out; blankets you hate cannot be destroyed; horses you hate cannot be sold and will outlive you.

Clipper blades will become dull only when the horse is half finished.

Clipper motors will quit only when you have the horse’s head left to trim.

If you’re wondering if you left the water on in the barn, you did. If you’re wondering if you latched the pasture gate, You didn’t.

One horse isn’t enough, two is too many.

If you approach within 50 feet of the barn in your “street clothes”, you will get dirty.

You can’t push a horse on a lunge line.

If a horse is advertised “under $5,000, you can bet he isn’t $2,500.

The number of horses you own increases, according to the number of stalls in your barn.

An uncomplicated horse can be ruined with enough training.

You can’t run a barn without baling twine.

Hoof picks migrate.

Wind velocity increases in direct proportion to how well your hat fits.

There is no such thing as the “right feed.”

If you fall off, you will land on the site of your most recent injury.

If you’re winning, QUIT!

“Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and
self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquillity to troubled souls-they
give us hope!”
–Toni Robinson

“God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses.”
– R. B. Cunningham Graham

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the
inside of a man.”
–Sir Winston Churchill

“The horse is God’s gift to man.”
–Arabian Proverb

“Show me your horse and I will tell you who you are.”
–Old English Saying

“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle”
–Winston Churchill

“There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse”
–Robert Smith Surtees

“To be loved by a horse, or by any animal, should fill us with awe-
for we have not deserved it.”
–Marion Garretty

“Experienced riders are not prone to brag. And usually newcomers,if they
start out being boastful, end up modest.”
–C.J.J. Mullen

“Horse, thou art truly a creature without equal, for thou fliest without
wings and conquerest without sword.”
–The Koran

“It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to
fall.”
–Mexican Proverb

“A canter is the cure for every evil.”
–Benjamin Disrael

“Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables.”
–Monica Dickens

“They say princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The
reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as
soon as his groom.”
–Ben Johnson

  ”I saw a child who couldn’t walk, sit on a horse, laugh and talk… I saw a child who could only crawl, mount a horse and sit up tall. I saw a child born into strife, take up and hold the reins of life. And that same child was heard to say, Thank God for showing me the way.”

– John Anthony Davis

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.

– Pam Brown

 I ride, therefore I am.

 – Unknown

The Horse: Here is nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity, a willing servant, yet no slave.

– Unknown

You can tell a gelding, ask a mare; but you must discuss it with a stallion.

– Unknown

A daughter who won’t lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out stables.

– Samantha Armstrong

There are only two emotions that belong on the saddle; One is a sense of humor, and the other is patience.

– John Lyons

A dog looks up to man, A cat looks down at man,But a patient horse looks a man in the eye and sees him as an equal.

-Unknown

The love for a horse is just as complicated as the love for another human being…If you never love a horse, you will never understand.

-Unknown

All horses deserve, at least once in their lives, to be loved by a little girl.