Old Selam Pioneer: This Standardbred ROCKS
The Equestrian Vagabond
by The Equestrian Vagabond
2y ago
  Saturday September 11 2021 All three 50-mile days at Old Selam Pioneer on Hillbillie Willie: that was my long-range goal this year. What with my healing shoulder and other commitments, and only one 50 under Willie’s girth at City of Rocks more than three months earlier, it was a flexible goal. Three days would be super. Two would be awesome. Heck, I’d be ecstatic to ride and complete one day with Willie and both of us come out of it unscathed. It just so happens Old Selam has become one of my top three favorite endurance rides. I miss the forest and mountains, the smell of the pine ..read more
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Goodbye Stormy
The Equestrian Vagabond
by The Equestrian Vagabond
2y ago
  Stormy - The Most Beautiful Horse On The Planet 1991-2021 it breaks my heart that Stormy has gone to brighten the next world. Appropriately, a thunder and lightning and wind storm blew through as he left. I’d known him for 25 years, owned him for 21. He went from being a (mildly successful) racehorse (I was his groom), to retiring and being My Horse, to working with me for the Forest Service (pack string leader) in California, to working on a dude ranch (wrangler horse) in California, then to Idaho with me as a resident Lawn Mower and Endurance horse companion and Old Duffer. His f ..read more
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Fresh Off The Range: Second Owyhee Mustang Crop Available for Adoption
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by The Equestrian Vagabond
2y ago
Saturday July 16 2021 From the family of sire JUSTIFY, this second "B" crop of one-of-a-kind all-recycled** hand-made-with-love Owyhee Mustang siblings are recently-rounded up off the Owyhee Range. They are tamed and gentled and halter broke… but not broke to ride. They are easy keepers - won’t eat you out of the hay barn and are happy with just sunshine and admiration. Each has its own unique personality and conformation! By adopting an Owyhee Mustang you are an owner of an authentic Wild West bronc, made of genuine recycled baling twine fresh off hay bales, so in additio ..read more
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My First Endurance Ride with my New Shoulder and my "New" Horse!
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by The Equestrian Vagabond
2y ago
June 5 2021 Sure, I already had two shoulders, and I've already partnered with the Standardbred Hillbillie Willie to ride some 765 AERC miles over the last 5 years, but Day 3 50-miler at the City of Rocks Pioneer endurance ride in south-central Idaho marked my first 50-mile ride since my Hot Mess of a shoulder was repaired 6 months ago, and my first ride owning Hillbillie Willie! Due to a change in life circumstances for all of us on the Crick, and a great big heart, Steph Teeter gave me Hillbillie Willie in April. Finishing that 50 on Saturday was enough to make a grown man cry ..read more
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Dudley’s Hill
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by The Equestrian Vagabond
2y ago
Saturday March 6 2021 He stands on the hill, gazing, listening, appreciating, absorbing, thinking. It’s like this at the end of every ride. From the crest of the hill, we ride down, until he pulls over and comes to a stop at this point - Dudley’s Hill - and I get off, and he stands there. We stand there together, Dudley gazing at his home below and the hills around us, and the mountains to the west. I look at the scenery, too, but mostly I stand there and gaze at him, such a hunk of a horse, such an intelligent horse, a kindred spirit who loves to stop and breathe and take it all in. It do ..read more
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Horse Book Giveaway!
The Equestrian Vagabond
by The Equestrian Vagabond
2y ago
Monday November 30 2020 I’m giving away a holiday package for 3 of my horse books: Soul Deep in Horses: Memoir of an Equestrian Vagabond, Tevis Cup Magic: Taking on the World’s Toughest 100 Mile Endurance Ride, and Tales From The West: Four Seasons in the Owyhee Country. To enter, sign up for my newsletter, which comes out occasionally, and informs you about my newest books, ebooks, e-short stories, photo galleries and unique handmade art. Here’s the link to sign up: https://mailchi.mp/d1d128321f77/theequestrianvagabond Your email will be entered in the drawing which will happen Dec 10th ..read more
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Fresh Off The Range: New Owyhee Mustang Herd Available for Adoption
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by The Equestrian Vagabond
2y ago
Monday November 23 2020 From the family of sire JUSTIFY, this first "A" crop of one-of-a-kind all-recycled**, hand-made-with-love Owyhee Mustang siblings are recently-rounded up off the Owyhee Range. They are tamed and gentled and halter broke… but not broke to ride. They are easy keepers - won’t eat you out of the hay barn and are happy with just sunshine and admiration.    By adopting an Owyhee Mustang you are an owner of an authentic Wild West bronc, made of genuine recycled baling twine fresh off hay bales, so in addition to owning a very unique objet d’art, a pi ..read more
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Fire Breathing Hillbillie Dragon
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by The Equestrian Vagabond
2y ago
October 7 2020 He'd had a solid 4 weeks off since his 50-mile ride at Old Selam, partially due to smoky skies, and shoulder doctor's orders (mine). The last week he'd been zipping and ripping and romping around the pastures here, sparring with his herd-mates and Sneaky Shark-attacking Disco. So I figured Willie would be pretty raring to go on a training ride. I left him in charge (as long as he made the right decisions) as to which forks in the trails to take, and what gait he wanted to use. I rode a fire breathing dragon! Trotting, cantering, pacing, blowing sparks and snorting smoke ..read more
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Hillbillie Delight at Old Selam
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by The Equestrian Vagabond
2y ago
Monday September 14 2020 Old Selam was only Hillbillie Willie's second endurance ride of the year. I was a little nervous about the first five or so miles: at his previous ride at City of Rocks, this Standardbred ex-racehorse (owned by Steph Teeter, ridden by me) was hot hot hot, pulling and yanking, rooting, throwing his head up, mouth gaping open or chomping on the bit. He wore me plumb out those first miles, and while it was great to be back in the saddle, I sure wouldn't call them fun miles. I suspected the bit might have something to do with it; I'd seen some signs on training rides h ..read more
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This Old Horse
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by The Equestrian Vagabond
2y ago
August 14 2020   Fed Ex man came to deliver something the other day, and he was concerned about the horse standing out in the driveway/road out front. “I’m worried he might run off.” Not the slightest chance of that happening. That’s just my Golden Oldie Stormy, 29, (a.k.a. Old Farticus) who just hangs out up there occasionally. He and old man Krusty (R.I.P.) used to wander out there and eat grass, stand in the road and doze, just hang out together.  Now that Stormy’s old and doesn’t have enough teeth to eat hay, he gets full range of the place, wandering wherever he wants to eat ..read more
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