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My musings and writings on holistic horse care, health care, and on becoming sage…continued.

Archive for the 'horse racing' Category

Eight Belles Toll For Thee, part III and conclusion

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

A lot of animal injustice is done in ignorance, but today with all of the information available so readily in books and on the internet there is no excuse for ignorance. I started out ignorant, getting back into horses in my adult life but with the concepts and ideas that had been formed in my [...]

Eight Belles Toll For Thee, part II

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Of course, there are other kinds of sporting events with horses that have their fair share of crippled horses and abuses, and hopefully there will be an outcry in support of Eight Belles that will trickle over into those areas (ok, I am hoping for a gush but a trickle is better than nothing). And [...]

Eight Belles Toll For Thee, part I

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

So I wrote this article today…something to do with horse racing and animal injustices…and I am going to post a little of it here each day until I am done. Maybe it was Eight Belles speaking to me to write it for her, but whatever it was I felt compelled, so here goes: “No man [...]