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Wentworth Hunter Pace - June 6, 2021

After Margaret and I had such a fun time at the fall hunter pace, we opted to go again this spring! This time, while I rode Rejoice again, Margaret rode her horse Jester and had a friend ride Ladyhawke. All Kennebec Morgans!! Jester and Rejoice have the same dam and Jester and Lady share the same sire. Unfortunately instead of a lovely late spring day, we had one of the first intensely hot and humid days of the year. It was definitely a bummer, but the ride was mostly in the shade of the woods and we had a great time!  most of the fences were 3' coops but we found a small log and this hay to jump haha Until we didn't. 😑 We brought along a third friend who rode Margaret's older mare, Ladyhawke. She's a good rider but hasn't known Ladyhawke for very long and didn't realize how much of a cranky boss mare she could be at times. She kicked Jester right in the front leg just about halfway through the ride, and while the cut itself ended up not being a big deal in the...

An article about us....

I was contacted about a STB article for the Bangor Daily News. I cannot believe he said I worked at Fryeburg! DUH! I said Sacopee like 3 times and even spelled it. I like the piece so-so. I really wanted him to focus on the HORSES, not me and my horse. I talked a lot about the breed in general, about our new org., and about the UMaine program. It is too bad in my opinion that he chose to focus on ME. Oh well. I understand a "human interest story" makes it more interesting, but it was kind of weird the way he made me sound so FORCEFUL. Like I would smack someone if they insinuated a horse should go to a glue factory? UMMM....never said a thing about a glue factory....and actually I am more pro slaughter anyway. Some of the quotes are things that I did not say. LOL! I said something like that, but he did direct quotes that were not really direct quotes. Oh well......good publicity for the breed is always good thing I suppose.

And apparently I operate a barn and started "dressage training" at six years old! LOL! It is always odd when a non-horse person writes about horses. :P

Here it is:

http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/109977.html

Comments

  1. Wow, looks like the writer took some liberties on the article. And how can they get the school you work at wrong. I went to Fryeburg Academy and it doesn't look or sound anything like Sacopee Valley hahaha. Like you said, atleast it's good publicity for the breed because they always need it up here where STBs are dropped a dime a dozen after life on the track.

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  2. Yup, it's a "nice" article...even if it doesn't have a lot of correct and truthful information in it!

    What is it about newspaper reporters in particular that they feel the need to make up stuff?!? Argh.

    Still, it was nice publicity for your STB support organization, For the benefit of us STB-lovin' latecomers, can you post more info about that on your blog?

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