What a pretty day

Well it seems I have gotten over my hissy fit from yesterday. Sometimes you just have to let things go when you have no control over them. It did take me a long time to get over the mare story. But I was able to take my anger out on mowing the farm. Mow I did;) I must say mowing to me lets me just stop and think and just keep going. Now my grass is happy and so are my horses;)

Today I am going to make up to more cats on the blog. One for My 2 yr old in training. She is not going to a sale she will go to the track. Second will be for Pye’s colt that will go to the Oct weanling sale. I just need to get some more stuff done on the farm before I tackle those 2 today. It should be fun though. Tracking there training and so forth.

I got a email from someone yesterday saying that they had read my blog. They were impressed about the breeding a Tb topic. How I kept it real and not all times was it rainbows and butterfly’s. So really that is why I have started this blog. Breeding Tb’s Racing them and prepping them is not for the faint of heart and here I will tell the real truth about all that goes on behind the scenes. But please know the reason I am telling the “real” truth is maybe there will be some change out there one day. I love my horses. I love this breed. I am thankful from the bottom of my heart that there are people out there like Canter http://www.canterusa.org/ ok now I cannot find the add a link button so there is there whole link. Please take the time to donate and support them. Remember Pye came from them. Well she came from a trainer that was listed on there site and i bought her. Same thing;) They also love this breed and love the off the track horses that give it there all and they give them a new job.

Off to get some work done. Until this afternoon…

Ugg some people

This morning i heard news of a mare that was the sweetest smartest mare ever. I will give the cliff notes version of this story since I worked for thease people for a long time and sometimes the big people in this game of breeding and racing Tb’s make  me really want to vomit!

Mare had a broken hip. Mare could get around but in my opinion should of never been breed. Now you know in the Tb biz everything has to be live cover. So you guess how the mare was bred with a flippin broken hip. Anyway mare lost foal last year. They tried to do a C section did not work out so well. Mare lived. I said please do not breed her back. Just let her be a happy pasture horse somewhere for someone. I was told to buck up this is the bizs and I better stop carring so much if I wanted to stay in the game. Mare was bred back last year again you tell me how she was bred live cover….. Mare had foal the other day. They lost the foal AGAIN. Mare lived but now she had lost to foals for them and now is worth nothing to them so they put her down.

WTF.. It kills me that some of the “BIG” people in this game can just look at them like they are money all the time. She got infoal twice did her job. They are the dumbshits that wanted a foal out of mare that yes she had a good pedigree but was it worth her life? I think not. Now maybe that is why they have the 20 million dollar farm and the crews of people working for them and the persona that they care about there horses. Whatever I will keep my 8 ac sweet farm, loved mares and foals and maybe one day I will see them in the winner circle and say…. Karma is a bitch!

Foals and spring time

Since I have to feed at Merrie’s farm this weekend so she can go to a show. I was thinking.. Spring time and foals. I love this time of year. Driving to Merrie’s farm there are about 4 Tb farms on the way. This morning they had bunches of babies out with there moms. I wish I had my camera with me they were so sweet in the pasture.

I always look at them and think that one could be the next big horse. That one could be the next big jumper or hunter or just someones love bug. We know not all the foals will make it to the track and if they do will not last to long. But there are always other great things they can do. There is a link on the right side to a Tb that has come off the track and there retraining him. It’s a great blog. So please go check it out if you have time;)

Well i am still sick so time for me to take some more cough meds and take a nap.

~~Ashley~~

A Thoroughbred and her boy

I hear so meny people talk about a thoroughbred of being crazy and hot. Well yesterday was a proven day of what a Tb can be. Here is Miss Mahogany aka Maggie a mare off the track. She is a special mare to me. I have told this mare so meny storys about myself that a shrink would probably have me commited by now;) When I first got maggie she was a little full of herself. She had some trust issues with people. I can totaly relate to that one. So Maggie and I were on a mission together to learn how to trust one another and just trust in general. She has been in my life for 5 years now and as you can see I trust this mare more then I trust myself sometimes.

     

Now Maggie loves her Ethan. She has known him since birth. She has always inhaled him since he was a baby. We would take him to her in the stall and she would just sit there and nuzzle him so softly and sniff the crap out of him. I truly believe that she would put her life on the line for this child. So the moral of this little sory is trust and forgiveness. Together Maggie and I have learned both. Thank god for the horses!