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Inspirational Reunion for Retired Racehorse Inked and Kirsten Fada

In this horse life, we are truly blessed to meet so many amazing equines. We are equally as cursed, it seems, as far too often our amazing friends fall out of contact. While we might have them in our stable mail, watch races, and keep up with their work tab, eventually the notifications stop.

Thoroughbred Makeover Diary: Laying a Foundation for Saintly Ballad

In my many years of professionally training various horse breeds for multiple disciplines, I have found my greatest tools to be my background in natural horsemanship and my mounted police training to create a partnership built on trust, leadership, and confidence. When working with my own horses or helping other people with their horses, I have seen huge improvements and endless possibilities with the addition of those two training modalities with horses and riders of every discipline and level of experience.

Thoroughbred Makeover Diary: Tough, Uncertain Road Ahead for Term of Art

Full disclosure: This one is going to be hard to write …

But as depressed as I have been feeling, I am starting to think that maybe it will help to put it all out there.

Horse racing is a notoriously private industry. Some people think it’s taboo to talk about the bad things and only stick to the good, but knowing about the bad makes celebrating the triumphs much more special.

Term of Art won’t be competing at the Thoroughbred Makeover this year. He may never be sound again, or the harshest of realities is that this may be something that we aren’t able to fix.

Thoroughbred Makeover Diary: Challenging Times, Ups and Downs With Term of Art

Well, it has been quite the year since I checked in last. Oh, that was March? Right …

My day-to-day life hasn’t changed much. I’m considered “essential,” so I am still managing my small boarding farm. Additionally, mares continue to deliver their foals no matter what.

Thoroughbred Makeover Diary: Rescue and Redemption for Saintly Ballad

To believe in a person allows them to believe in themselves, and to believe in a horse holds that very same power. You see, the compassionate treatment of human beings and horses are closely paralleled. I see the potential in a being that most would consider unworthy of their effort. In horses and in people, it is the size of their heart that determines how far they will go, regardless of their physical or mental “shortcomings.”

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