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Iowa Off-Track Thoroughbreds

http://iowaofftrackthoroughbred.blogspot.com/

The life and times of two thoroughbred mares in Iowa, discovering life after the track.

• Added on: Feb 2nd, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Raindog
• Listed in: Adventure Science & Nature
• Tags: Horses iowa thoroughbreds mares hunter-jumpers off-track

Recent Posts

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, aka Me

  Posted on Sunday February 1st, 2009 at 10:45

  After writing of a break-through with Mandi the other day, I need to write now of the deleterious consequence of such break throughs; i.e. my irrational leap to equate progress with utter and complete transformation. The leap translates into riding t...

• Winter Horsekeeping

  Posted on Saturday January 24th, 2009 at 10:02 in winter issues

  We moved to Iowa in 2000. The first several winters were not the midwest winters I remembered from growing up in Illinois in the 1970's. But last year brought a return to the weather of my youth. Sub-zero stretches, and, even worse, thaws followed...

• Side Reins

  Posted on Tuesday January 20th, 2009 at 21:07 in trot breakthrough

  I haven't used draw reins much in my training. I used a german martingale for a few weeks about 18 years ago, but didn't like the feel. I always rode my reiners and some of my hunters in running martingale rings, but even got away from that in recent...

• Morning thoughts

  Posted on Sunday January 11th, 2009 at 11:04

  The older I get, the more experiences I accumulate in the rearview mirror, the more time I want to spend with horses. I'm beginning to conclude that the ultimate anecdote to existential doldrums is time spent in my passion, and not just easy time,...

• Cracked in the Jaw, but a Good Day nonetheless

  Posted on Saturday January 10th, 2009 at 22:37 in injured jaw

  After making it through 13 months injury free with Mandi, we broke our streak today. As so often happens with horses, I took the hit in the most mundane way. When I arrived at the barn, she was lying down, taking a sun bath in the snow. When I ...

• Picking Mandi up at the Track - December 2007

  Posted on Saturday January 10th, 2009 at 13:45 in early days

  Mandi is a 2003 bay mare by Lac Ouimet out of Baby Ray. Her parentage is a mixed bag. In the racing world, her sire was the equivalent of a member of the Kennedy family, and her dam of peasant stock. My heart lies with peasants, so this analogy shoul...

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