“All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he’ll listen to me any day.”  ~Author Unknown

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“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.” –Jackie Kennedy

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“A horse is a horse, of course, of course.” — Jay Livingston and Ray Evans 

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He doth nothing but talk of his horses. —William Shakespeare

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“A stallion and a mare were due to get married, but the stallion didn’t show up at the church: He got colt feet.” – unknown

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“This event is a crucible. If it is done properly it burns away everything that is false and unreal about your training and it reveals what was correct and pure and proper in how you prepared that horse.” – Jim Wofford (more…)

“I hope you will fall into good hands; but a horse never knows who may buy him, or who may drive him; it is all a chance for us…” – Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

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“I never take my cell phone on the back of a horse.” – Jane Smiley [Hear More]

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“Honor lies in the mane of a horse.” – Herman Melville

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“The homestretch is 1,234 feet of heartbreak. Trainers swear it’s uphill.” – Jim Murray

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“It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.” –Abraham Lincoln

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“Horse are predictably unpredictable.”–Loretta Grace

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“In dealing with a girl or a horse, one lets nature take its course.” –Fred Astaire

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“Red on right, white on left, insanity in the middle.” –Eventing Nation

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“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”–Henry Ford

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“You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get it to float on its back with its legs in the air you’ve really got something.”–Unknown

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“Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.”–Unknown

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“Don’t squat with your spurs on.”–Cowboy wisdom

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“There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.”–Robert Smith Surtees

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“A horse’s behavior will be in direct proportion to the number of people watching you ride him.”–Cooky Mclung

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“Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.” –Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

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“Well, if you guessin’ it’s me, you guessed correctly/ I just stay with a stallion, you would swear I was an equestrian/I hit her with that pipe, call that Nancy Kerrigan/Stay on the greenest greens, call us vegetarians.”–B.o.B., “Strange Clouds” (more…)

“I’ve fallen in love with my horse. It’s a safer bet. We all know from my illustrious past that I should be sticking to men with four legs.”–Sharon Stone

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“Half of the failures in life come from pulling one’s horse when he is leaping.”–Thomas Hood

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