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Pompano
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Today's Photo - "A Horse, of Course.."
Note: No more 'Oats & Honey' cereal on elk hunts.
[Edited on 2-23-2014 by Pompano]
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That looks familiar!
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
That looks familiar! |
Really? Sorry about that...nothing like a well-trained horse. 
Some being better than others.
[Edited on 2-22-2014 by Pompano]
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I notice all the "luxury" in camp?
You ever thought of taking a real safari to Namibia or South Africa?
You get a hot shower every day, your laundry done and ironed every day, sleep on a real queen sized bed, 3 hots a day done by a real chef and all the
hunting you would ever want for 5 different animals in a week for less than a Canadian sheep hunt eating cold beans while sitting on a log in a snow
storm:-)
U2U me if you need info :-) I gave up that hard stuff a long time ago!
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Botswana is my favorite....
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Cliffy
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They just closed most of Botswana to safaris.
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Gawd-a-mighty... jest lookit them harse's arses!!
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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I took this photo a few years ago- a real Cowboy Limousine.
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Really old pictures...RE Bottswana ? Who cares? Did it already...
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Pompano
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"Just Horsing Around"
"Up in Smoke"
"Foggy Bottom Boys"
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[Edited on 3-10-2014 by Pompano]
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Pompano
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Horses are not for everywhere.
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Pompano
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Still Horsing Around...
"They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles
to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning."
-Billie Holiday
A pleasant way to see Victoria, B.C., Canada (The carriage horse was named...'Rose'.)
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Cliffy
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Victoria is nice Had High Tea at the Empress Hotel!
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Adore horses. Thank you for all the beautiful pictures.
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Zapotec
Adore horses. Thank you for all the beautiful pictures. |
Thanks Zapotec, (interesting forum name ...with some history)
I like them, too...so stay tuned to more here.
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Pompano
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Southwestern Colorado...Durango -Silverton. A good biking experience was competing in the Iron Horse Race. I took this photo of the
'Iron Horse' just as Co-pilot pulled her car in front of me....opps...but I got the impressive smoke that I wanted. Great fun place and event with
about 3500 bikers in 2011.
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Pompano
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Chief Crazy Horse - South Dakota Black Hills
Ta-sunko-witko - Sioux chief of the Oglala tribe who was an able tactician and determined warrior in the Sioux resistance to the white man’s invasion
of the northern Great Plains.
This is an impressive monument to a brave Oglala Souix warrior chief. It is an ongoing project and is located in the same area as the Mt. Rushmore
statues.
In 1939, his tribe asked an artist to make a statue of Crazy Horse. The Indians wanted a huge statue cut into the side of a mountain. It would show
Crazy Horse riding a running horse, pointing his arm to where the Earth meets the sky -- to the lands of the Lakota people. The tribe told the
artist: "We would like the white man to know the red man had great heroes, too."
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Pompano
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SHETLANDS
Always a favorite in many ways, these Shetland Ponies in mid-photo are my grandchildren's delight.
Any farmer or rancher with children will know why. (From the experience of my own childhood, Shetlands beat sheep or calves for riding any
day!) Very trainable and a great disposition.
They have their own unique history, which I very much like. The small Shetland ponies have existed in the northern Shetland Isles of
Great Britain for over 2000 years and probably much longer. Various excavations on the islands have revealed the bones of small ponies that
existed during the Bronze Age and it is thought that ponies have been in domestic use there since this time. Their small size was a matter of
adaption to the climate and forage...tenacious survivors.
Various stories about the ponies strength are legendary - for their size they are the strongest of all the horse breeds. For centuries the pony
cultivated the land, carried the peat from the scatholds and seaweed for the fields, (see photo) and was used to transport his owner. The pony was
never a draught animal until the mid 19th century as there were no proper roads until then. Of particular interest to me is the fact that the
horse owning fisherman was able to use hair from the ponies tails for his lines.
When British law in 1847 finally banned children from entering the coal mines, the Shetland pony colts became in great demand and many had to exchange
the freedom of the hills for the darkness of the mines. In fact their docile and willing nature enabled them to adapt very well to their underground
environment and they were treated with much affection by their handlers and every so often they were returned to above ground for a period of time. At
this time several studs were formed in an attempt to improve the stock by the use of the best stallions available that would breed ponies with the
bone and substance necessary for the pit trade.
The breed also attracted much interest for children to ride and for driving and many people including Queen Victoria owned several pairs of
Shetlands for drawing their smart phaetons. In the last twenty years of the nineteenth century thousands of ponies left the islands, reports of
over one thousand a year, and many were exported across the Atlantic.
And so that's how this unique breed of small horse became popular throughout America and the world.
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Thanks for sharing ... Great stuff 
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I don't know if many will remember Pierre, a French Algerian by way of Toronto, Canada, who came to Mulege to rent and run the Casablanca Bar in the
old Hotel Hacienda. Quite a character here for a few seasons. Loved horses and women, not necessarily in that order...
Here's Pierre and his riding companion along the Mulege river.
Sure miss those old characters...they gave the place character. 
And here's the last of these boring horse pics. A set of statues made to commemorate the Souix pony warriors who ruled the Plains until the white man
broke enough treaties to annihilate them. Prairie Knights.
Okay, horse show is over. (Thank God, eh?) 
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