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Absorbine UltraShield Fly Spray Review

Absorbine UltraShield Fly Spray Review

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Things I enjoy in life: riding my horse, diet coke, cool spring breeze, fancy stitch tack. Things I don’t enjoy in life: humidity, extreme dust, Friday afternoon meetings, bad drivers, and FLIES!!! To help troubleshoot the flies issue, Absorbine sent me three of their UltraShield fly sprays to review – UltraShield Sport, UltraShield Sport Continuous Spray (Aerosol), and UltraShield Red.    I’ve been using these three products for about a month now, and have gathered my thoughts for you dear readers who may dislike…

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OTTB Spotlight – Val

OTTB Spotlight – Val

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We all know OTTBs have the reputation of being firecrackers that excel at events like eventing and jumpers, but today’s feature is a little more calm… and well, forward and straight! Val from Calm, Forward, and Straight is a super handsome OTTB. What is his/her registered name? Sinister WInd – a hateful name, but weirdly appropriate since we live on a hurricane prone island. Lineage? Buckpasser, Native Dancer, Tom Fool and Man O’ War through War Admiral. Sadly the nearest…

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Things To Consider When Deciding To Move Barns

Things To Consider When Deciding To Move Barns

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Time flies when you’re having fun… or when you’re working and rehabbing your horse and supporting your husband through his last full semester of graduate school.  Time flies in those scenarios as well, maybe doubly so. A while ago I announced that I would be moving Simon to a new barn and today is the day. Jen from Wyvern Oaks has graciously offered to trailer him to the new barn for me this afternoon (thank you thank you thank you…

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OTTB Spotlight – Cuna

OTTB Spotlight – Cuna

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I bet a lot of you have heard of today’s featured OTTB who his mom affectionately calls a “mean ass bastard horse.”  I don’t believe it for a minute though, and neither should you.  🙂  Cuna from SprinklerBandits is the kind of horse we all are lucky to have at least once in our lives… and to top it all off he’s an OTTB too! What is his/her registered name? His Jockey Club name is Acuna, but the USEF knows him as…

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Saddle Fund

Saddle Fund

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When I first started buying tack for Elvis, I didn’t see any point in buying anything name brand or nice.  I would get the cheapest of the cheap stuff off of Ebay, and think I was a whole lot smarter than people who spent mega bucks on fancy stuff.  Stupid them. Then I decided I needed a Western headstall in light oil with silver conchos.  Had I shown Elvis western?  No.  Was I realistically going to show Elvis western?  No, but…

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OTTB Spotlight – Henry

OTTB Spotlight – Henry

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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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OTTB Spotlight – Keller

OTTB Spotlight – Keller

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Keller is a horse at my current barn, and the kind of school horse everyone should have the pleasure of riding as their learn the finer points of horsemanship   He is safe, but not easy.  For an upper level rider, he can do the step and jump 2’6″ – 2’9″ with his special school horse version of flying changes but he can also step down for dead beginners to just jog politely around the arena.  Basically, he breaks the OTTBs are crazy…

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Go Becky Holder!

Go Becky Holder!

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True confession here – I’m not big into eventing.  I know it’s intense and hard and a huge adrenaline rush, but it’s not really a sport for me.  I can’t get over how terrifying cross country looks, and I’m not a big fan of watching eventing dressage or show jumping.  That being said, everyone has Rolex fever right now… and I certainly have my favorite pair to win. Why I want Becky Holder & Can’t Fire Me to take it all!…

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