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Cary · Member Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 142

Hi all, My name is Cary and i'm from North Texas. Originally from Wisconsin but been down here all of my adult life. I love Texas and married a good ole Texas boy so i'm here to stay.

My first horse was actually my sister's horse, Big Bend Pic-a-Dilly (her pedigree is here). I spent the eighties working with an Appy farm (Roman's Staw Man), working for a cutting horse man in Whitesboro, and riding for folks around here. I spent several years running barrels too. Riding for other folks also helped pay my way through college!

After my 3rd son was born I decided to step out of the horse business for awhile so I could focus on raising my family. Now that my kids are getting big enough i'm really getting the bug to get another horse.
I've been visiting this forum since early December. Never done much chatting online before and am a little shell shocked Shocked

, but i'm relieved to see this new format Very Happy

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Well, I guess i'm a bit long winded tonight! Just wanted to introduce myself. I love all the great advice and fun stuff!

Lucilla · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject: Hello

Hi There.
Welcome
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TX-WI · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:05 pm Post subject:

Hey, I think we traded places! Orginally I am from TX. Grew up just south of Dallas and now I currently reside in the SW corner of WI.
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Bindi · Member Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 114

Welcome Cary - we hoping that the circus will stay outta town. Anyway the powers that be put some road blocks up and we're keeping our fingers crossed.

One of our favourite contributers from your way will hopefully come online. He's a wealth of knowledge and alot of fun. There isn't alot about horses that he doen'st know. Nothing like living in the industry to make you want to do the very best by horses.....especially when its your bread and butter....

So hope you enjoy the forum, most posters are either showies or breeders, so any questions are gratefully received and helpful hints readily handed out.......Bindi in Oz

Rebecca B · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:37 am Post subject:

Hi Cary,

It's great to have more folks with real,
hands on experience. This new board is
so much more balanced; lots of valuable
experience here. Looking forward to
hearing from you.

missmagus · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 5:32 am Post subject:

Hi Cary -

I'm new on the forum too plus am from North Texas. Where abouts are you in North TExas? I'm just 18 miles south of Fort Worth - right off I35W. I'm also transplanted from another state - California. I've been here for 27 years though - so I kind of feel like a Texan.

Glad to have you on the forum - I guess they can have some lively discussions - should be fun.
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Cary · Member Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 142

Hey all,

Thanks for the kind welcome. Rebecca & Lucilla i'm looking forward to reading more posts from ya'll!

TX-WI - we ARE in opposite boats! I was born in Green Bay and have been down here since 1978. My mom & sister live around Delavan.

Bindi - I've enjoyed reading your lighthearted posts in the past and also miss our previous friend. His horse insight is remarkable and I loved reading his advice usually peppered with that southern flair! I've always wanted to visit Australia! I think it'd be the next best place to Texas!

mismagus - i'm 35 mi. north of Dallas in a small (but rapidly growing Crying or Very sad

) farming town. Looking to sell our land and buy in a less populated area in the future! My sis in Wi is into arabs. I never liked arabians much until I saw the ones she's working with now, mostly show horses. Really beautiful animals!

Calens Arabians · Member Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 157 Location: Oklahoma

Cary so happy to meet you. Hope to hear much from a non-arab person who is changing the perception, laf.

Folks, I may be getting my first NON-arab, at least a non- PB, I just found out that my bossom buddy does have a legacy. Myahd Hebron Star has an Araloosa son in Coleman, TX who is making a name for himself with handsome get and great manners. Keep yer fingers crossed for me, I do miss Heb so.
Most of you don't know what happened to Heb, so I'll give you the readers digest version. Have 6yo grey Arab stallion at boarding stable, change in management results in remodelling. New management forgets that tractable grey horse is not a gelding. Puts him in temp paddock next to heated mare. Stallion meets mare over T-Post, no need for further details.

Heb was the kind of horse I could do anything with. We often went on 'trail' rides, my husband, a friend and I. On one horse, at the same time. We would ride until he began to get uncomfortable, then we would all get off and walk. He never complained. He did crowd control at Laguna Seca (sp?).
He did the Seaside X-mas parade, he was the only stallion in the parade. The geldings went berserk when we were swapped in possition and had to get past them, he never even blinked at them. The mares in the troop were squatin', funny how mares are all in heat at events. He never missed a step. He was unaffraid of the huge motor-cycle entry in front of us (the other equine entry had to trade places with us because their horses were terrified of those beasts).
He was my best friend. I had no get of his, and no way to get a sibling either. I'll take spots, if thats what it takes to get a piece of him to carry on.
Thanks for letting me vent. Love yall.
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Roguelet · Moderator Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 143 Location: Indiana

I'm so sorry to hear that! I probably don't have to tell you what I would've done with that T-post and that new management... Evil or Very Mad

Cary · Member Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 142

Hi Calen's

Man o man, am I so sorry for your loss! How lucky you were to be the one who got to own him! I have not had the pleasure of having a one of a kind horse...yet.

I agree with ya on not worrying about getting a different looking (ie...one having spots) horse if that is where you're going to find one that has a character like your Heb.

Keep your head up and keep looking for your next blessing!!

Calens Arabians · Member Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 157 Location: Oklahoma

What is most special to me is that this stallion who is now 6 (and has several foals on the ground) what is so special to me is that he is the only offspring of Hebron who is not only alive and well, but also able to produce foals (of good quality, I must add) whereby I can once again have a piece of my Heb out in my pasture.
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Calens Arabians · Member Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 157 Location: Oklahoma

Cary, you are sooo right in that he was a one of a kind. I could do anything with him, he would let me try ANYTHING and never questioned me, he was always so willing to please. Yet, there were folks out there who couldn't understand that he deserved respect (all of them do) and would mistreat him and blame him for 'getting even'.
My sister had a friend whose philosophy on horses was make 'em do what YOU want. Heb never tollerated that, he would do anything ANYONE wanted as long as it was asked in a respectful manner.
Anyway, this friend wanted to try her new gag-bit out on Heb (so she could make him do what she wanted). (I did not own him then, my mother did). She put this contraption on him and away they went. About 10 yards out of the corral she goes to yankin on that bridle and says, "Look what I can do now!"(Heb had done nothing wrong, she just wanted to prepare him.)
Now, when she went to jerking on that bit and he stopped. This made her furious, he was supposed to keep walking I guess.
So she really laid into that bit. Hebron quietly looked over his shoulder, located a nice big tree, and backed up to it. Now, this girl is screaming and yelling and torturing his nose and mouth with this bit the whole time. Hebron proceeds to rear up against that tree and pin her there until she quit yelling and jerking.
As soon as she relented he came down (30 or 45 seconds) and started off as if nothing had happened. (I know he was thinking, and now you know what I can do to you. Only she deserved it, haha!)
He didn't get four feet from that tree when she yanked his head around and put her full weight into the action of that bit. (She wasn't a small girl either.) He re-aligned with the tree and pinned and then scrubbed her against it for maybe a full minute befor she had to stop and catch her breath. The moment she quit, he came off the tree. As soon as his feet were on the ground, she jumped off, took her bridle off and stormed away in a huff.
I was 25' away, he now had no halter, lead or bridle on and was loose in an open area. I walked right up to him and led him (with no head gear, or restraint whatsoever) back to the corral.
Musta been some trick....
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RA · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:41 pm Post subject:

Welcome aboard Cary. Always great to have some new faces in town.

Rich
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missmagus · Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 7:58 am Post subject:

CalensArabians - one smart horse!
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