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Month: May 2013

OTTB Spotlight – Henry

OTTB Spotlight – Henry

He’s hunky… he’s dashing… he’s All In‘s Henry as this week’s OTTB Spotlight! What is his registered name?  House of Fortuny Lineage?  His dad is Atticus and mom is Mitzi. His great great grandpa is Secretariat 🙂 Did your OTTB race? If so, how’d they do? Yes and he was way to slow! What do you do now with him? Hunters If your OTTB was a musician, who would they be? Ummm not sure, how about an actor? I love…

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Not So Quick Decision

Not So Quick Decision

I interrupt your horsey news for a post about foster dogs, because that’s where my head is right now. We have fostered for Springer Rescue for several years, although not recently since Tim is no longer working from home full time and my bratty spoiled spaniel, Eliot, doesn’t really play well with others. On Friday though, we were contacted again for a special case dog. An older female in really rough shape, that we were asked to foster since we…

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Building Back Up

Building Back Up

Let’s take a break from all the fake horses for a bit and get back to the real star of the show, Simon! His royal highness seems to be doing well. Due to some interesting weather, I only got to ride twice this week but lunged him one additional day. He treated to me to some shenanigans and let me know that the impending thunder storm was a big deal. Don’t be jealous. He trots for this for like 3…

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Sim Horse Games Got Me My Career – Part 2

Sim Horse Games Got Me My Career – Part 2

In Part 1, Sim Horse Chat I fessed up to my secret horse sim addiction that’s been around since I was a kid. While Sim Horse Chat helped my typing and descriptive skills, discovering automated Sim Horse games really opened up a new world to me. Hello Photoshop! Automated Sim Horse Games are sites that have a sign-up, usually a fee to play, and run in a similar fashion: you buy/sell/breed virtual horses that have stats, train them to improve…

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Sim Horse Games Got Me My Career – Part 1

Sim Horse Games Got Me My Career – Part 1

I am a closet sim horse game player.  There, I said it.  The weight of years of hiding behind my fake cyber ponies has been unlifted!  Really I should say I’m a former sim horse game player, because I don’t exactly have time for such things at the moment but I will tell you one thing: I owe my career to these games. That may sound drastic, but it’s true.  I went to college for English Education (high school teaching), and I…

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