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My Tribute to the Running Girls: Part 2

Published by GHC • Jun 22nd, 2008 • Category: Showing and Sport, by SB

by SB | Continuing from PART 1, here is PART 2 featuring more of my favorite racing fillies. I have found that fillies as racers are almost always underestimated, and here is the proof that they are not to be…



My Tribute to the Running Girls: Part 1

Published by GHC • Jun 21st, 2008 • Category: Showing and Sport, by SB

by SB | Most horses that race are boys. No one can deny it, or to be more truthful, the only horses you hear about in racing are the boys. I think it’s high time the girl racers received some kudos and recognition. This two-part blog will cover some of my favorite and most notably famous racing fillies…



What Gender Is Right For You?

Published by GHC • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Horse Advice, by SB

by SB | This may seem like an odd question to ask, but it is a real subject you should consider when deciding on a horse to buy or lease. There are three different genders that you can choose. There is a mare which is a female horse, a stallion which is a male horse that can father foals, and a gelding that has been sterilized so it cannot father foals…



Dealing With Passing

Published by GHC • Mar 23rd, 2008 • Category: Junior Bloggers, Odds & Ends, by SB

by SB | At some point or another, one of the horses we hold near and dear to our hearts passes away. Whether it’s your new racehorse that broke his cannon during a race and had to be put down, or your favorite lesson pony…



The Wielkopolski

Published by GHC • Mar 20th, 2008 • Category: International Horse, by SB

by SB | Wielkopolski, what’s that? A type of disease? A small country in Africa? Nope, it’s a breed of horse! The Wielkopolski is an all-around horse and generally talented…



Seabiscuit: A Legend

Published by GHC • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: International Horse, Junior Blogger Finals, Junior Bloggers, by SB

by SB, age 13
No one could have guessed that a cultural icon would be born right in the middle of the Great Depression, a time when there wasn’t much joy and hope in the world. Seabiscuit was born on May 23, 1933, as the grandson of the great Man o’ War. Though he had great [...]



Fantasy vs. Reality

Published by GHC • Feb 7th, 2008 • Category: Junior Bloggers, Odds & Ends, by SB

by SB, age 13
There comes a time in every girl’s life where they have to make the jump from fantasy to reality: fantasies of that coal black stallion that races only for you; of being a princess on a snowy white horse; of a dream farm already planned out with the horses’ names and breeds [...]



REVIEW: Phantom Stallion by Terri Farley

Published by GHC • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: Books and Writing, Previews & Reviews, by SB

Author: Terri Farley
Title: Phantom Stallion (series)
Category: Books
Genre: Fiction
Reviewed by SB, age 13
Another Farley has done it again. Rather than there being a black Arabian attached to a young boy in New York, however, there is a pearly white Mustang stallion bonded with his girl in the deserts of Nevada. Terri Farley may not be related [...]