Let Me Introduce Myself

I literally have spent my entire life with horses. I feel I have a better understanding of the inter workings of horses than humans and communicate better with the horses also. I grew up on a small farm in Pennsylvania with a school teacher father and a nurse mother. I love my parents deeply, but they never quite seemed to understand my deep passion for horses, but they did their best to continue to allow me to have horses in my life growing up. I have three siblings, two older brothers and one older sister. My father purchased two ponies for the older siblings and the rest is history.

I was sat on a pony before I could even walk and have never stopped since. When I was 1 1/2 years old my oldest brother was holding one of our ponies by the lead rope with me on board. This was normal play time fun, but today had a twist in it that may have locked in my love of horses forever. My Aunt and Uncle had brought my cousins for pony rides, but were packing up to leave. Being an unsuspecting toddler I happily sat on my fuzzy steed watching them drive away. Within seconds my Fuzzy mount turned into a Thoroughbred race horse! She broke loose from my brother's hold and bolted chasing the car. I could hear chaos behind me with my mother screeching in fear and my father yelling stop the car!!! What I remember is seeing the lead rope flapping around, the wind on my face and fear of the unknown. I can still see my terrified father running to try to catch me and my runaway, Goldie. Then the car stopped and so did Goldie. My father pulled me off Goldie's back. Not remembering much else of the incident firsthand, my parents were able to tell me I never shed a tear that day and continued to beg to ride. From that day on I pleaded with my mother to let me ride on my own in the fields and finally that day came when I was 5 years old. A day I will never forget!

Some 30 odd years later I have devoted my spare time to share my experiences with horses, write horse articles and care for my newly adopted Premarin filly, three goats, three cats and my beloved Dalmatian. Currently, I am running a new website that I am filling with horse resources and information. My site is becoming over run with my journal of Velvet a Premarin foal I adopted on October 31, 2007, so I have decided to blog about her and continue to fill my website with informative horse articles. Feel free to visit my site for the early stories of Velvet and how she came to live with me. I will submit one more article about Velvet on the site and the continuing stories will be part of my blog.
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