flyingrose/horses

This is an excellent example of ignoring what really should be an OBVIOUS eventuality. How many people do not know baby anythings WILL grow into adults of the same species? When will common sense become common again - or was it really ever common in the first place?

If you don't want a DOG why would you get a puppy? Why not just get a dog in the first place since they generally have outgrown the negative puppy behaviors of chewing and digging holes? Everyone wants a cute, cuddly puppy but not the obvious drawbacks that inevitably come with them.

Even more ridiculous is buying a chick or bunny at Easter without considering the commitment involved. (And dying anything with toxins - including your head - is not the brightest idea humans ever had.) Bad idea unless you know someone who raises chickens who has already agreed to give it a home or know what to DO with that rabbit after the holiday.

Giving someone something cute and cuddly they will either get attached to and then have to find a home for OR they WON'T get attached to and have to find a home for it - not really a great idea. And once they grow to the gangly stage and aren't "cute and cuddly" any more finding them homes is much tougher.

And then we have horses. I suspect that most people who buy their child a horse don't realize they can live to be more than thirty. So take my advice - buy an OLD horse. They make much better first horses for children and adults alike anyway.

Whatever bad habits they're going to have they already have and you know what they are. (You're unlikely to change them with your new horse owner mistakes - you WILL definitely be TRAINING a younger horse with your every action - and I have seen many horses train their humans very effectively and quickly.)

Americans make the same mistakes judging horses as they do people. They want a beautiful, shiny stallion right off the racetrack (that will get them or their kids killed!) instead of that old, fuzzy horse with a scar here and there or a white patch of hair. If you're thinking of buying a horse for Christmas PLEASE listen to this.

Select a horse that is best suited to what you will actually do with it and your skill level. If you want to ride trails buy one with lots of trail experience. If you want to go to shows, buy one that has show experience. If you live in the city where going riding is like walking in New York buy a horse used to that environment.

There is NO SUCH THING as a 100% bomb-proof horse. Most "kid's horses" are old, tired and not 100% sound. THAT is what MAKES THEM kid's (and beginning rider) horses. As long as they're healthy and FUNCTIONALLY SOUND I don't mind buying horses over 20 or even over 25. And another good point - you can usually sell them for what you pay for them because the market undervalues them. (How much is your life worth to you?)

I've known many parents who couldn't understand why the child who practically lived on their pony "lost interest" in the horse they drove them crazy to buy. The answer is really obvious when you find out the "new horse" is a 2-3 year old entire colt that is not even what I would call green-broke!

One scary moment is enough to make many people give up horses. Do yourself and your family a favor and buy a nice, old QUIET dependable horse. Then you can relax and enjoy it and when you are ready for "more horse" - or no horse - you can easily sell it again. (Horses are REALLY easy to buy and can be NOT EASY to sell.)

Few realize horses are like puppies and kittens - there are more of them than homes for them. If you buy a horse that is already 20 for your school age children you won't still be caring for it when they have children of their ow

Someone just asked me is I was a photoreader and I had not heard that term before so I did what I always do when a new idea comes my way: I looked online.

The answer, in my case is, no although it would be a highly useful skill. I do know someone with a photographic memory who can repeat conversations from any length of time ago verbatim. Apparently a high percentage of very young children have that ability but lose it at some point.

What I do is "tune in" to that which has many names: intuition, the universe, God, Spirit - I do so wish more people would stop arguing about semantics and realize it doesn't matter what we call something if we're talking about the same something.

I know others who do this. A very good example is of pedigree analysis for Thoroughbred racehorses. Even with the advanced pedigree program I use tesiopower.com [tesiopower.com] ) which contains the pedigrees of most Thoroughbreds that ever lived, and with decades of knowledge of desirable genetic patterns, selecting racing prospects on pedigree by looking at each one would consume every waking moment between the day the catalogs come out and the sale.

After I known him a very long time, the best Thoroughbred pedigree analyst I ever met shared with me that he uses intuition to make a list of the best horses in any sale. That means even though he HAS the skills all pedigree analysts have he values and trusts his intuition above all else that he knows.

I highly recommend getting in tune with your "higher self" or "intuition" or "one-mind" or whatever YOU want to call it and the sooner the better.

From the page: "How to Process and Understand Materials 3 Times Faster than you do Right Now - With No Practice - Guaranteed - by Pete Bissonette

PhotoReading works on all reading material from magazines to reports to books, from light to highly technical

wayzata, mn. - "PhotoReading" is different from "regular reading"� and different from "speed reading". It is more a way to "process"� and "understand"� information than it is to "read" information. Because PhotoReading uses more of your mind, you can go through infor-mation more easily and with greater understanding.

It has been said we use less than 10% of our brain's capabilities. PhotoReading helps you tap into the other 90%. As a result the average person can "mentally photograph"� printed material at rates exceeding 25,000 words a minute. That's going through a book at one flip a second.

While you may view this as outrageous, everyone experiences these speeds in the seminar.

At these speeds you are able to PhotoRead a book in a matter of minutes, not hours. Because this is faster than you can possibly move your eyes across the lines of a page, you are not really reading. Rather, you are absorbing information directly into the storage areas of your brain, which leads to greater retention."

Silly holiday cards for my horsey (and geek) friends.

Michael Dickinson is a brilliant Thoroughbred trainer friend of mine who invented and patented a track surface far safer for racehorses.

Take any famous subject and check as many sources as possible and you'll see the discrepancies. One thing that is not obvious unless you're an author is that what seem to be consistencies do not prove anything.

It is a common practice for an author writing a new book to cite a previous book. Each subsequent author cites the prior works so if the first work was inaccurate, these other authors have now endorsed that inaccuracy. Because of this tendency, that a "fact" is mentioned in three different books DOES NOT indicate that it is true. It probably indicates that the later works relied on the information in the first - information that is only as accurate as that writer.

From the page: "Both descendants of famed Man o' War, War Admiral (his son) has been brought up like Little Lord Fauntleroy, while Seabiscuit (his grandson) had been treated like a fairy-book stepchild--sent out as a breadwinner in 35 overnight races and a minor stakes when he was only two years old. As a three-year-old he was entered in claiming race for $6,000, but no one wanted the homely little son of Hard Tack."

Did you know there was a 1939 Documentary about Seabiscuit? This is original footage of the real horse, trainer, owner, races and his early life in the stables. From watching the trailer I can tell you this movie reminds me of other books and movies in that whoever writes these things is not an expert on what they're writing.

For example, there is nothing unusual about a foal walking outside - all healthy foals are up on their feet and can run around - usually within an hour of their birth. (This is part of Mother Nature's way of protecting them from predators.)

This movie has a lot of spin and hype but it is still very interesting to see how things were different back then and know more about Seabiscuit. There is a free trailer on the site.

Personalized bronze sculptures - they will reproduce your horse/event/colors.

I knew John Henry personally. He "vacationed" at Galway Downs also known as Rancho California Track and Training Center in Rancho California / Temecula, California in the secondary training barn of Ron McAnally.

Record crowds turned out every time he ran. Over 62,000 were in attendance the last time I saw him run at Santa Anita. Little old ladies would bet $2 at less than even odds -a bet most handicappers would avoid referred to as a "chalk bet" after the original way of posting the current odds by writing them on a chalkboard in chalk - the chalk bet gets erased - updated - constantly.

What horse racing needs is more horses like John Henry - and also to more publicly recognize the Jockeys as the athletes they are and to use the many celebrities involved in the sport to increase interest. It has always amazed me that they do not already do this - they are almost totally missing their best promotional angles.