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PENNSYLVANIA EQUESTRIAN
October 2014
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Equine Comeback Challenge
INSOME STABLES
booth #25A
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Wow! Four months ago that poor horse was emaciated and starving to death and now he's on the cover of a magazine! I wish every
person and every animal that are in a bad place could experience a life
change like that. Well, we can do what we can towards that, right?
Thank you for the honor.
Thank you so much for the complimentary copy! It will be very
special to me as Rico is a very special horse.
Kim Strauss, Honeoye Falls, NY
Therapeutic Program Honored by Syl
An Exceptional Property With Breathtaking Views
Historic Hollidaysburg, PA
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Longwood 610-444-7600
Oxford 610-932-1000
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18 acre Equestrian Farm Southern Lancaster
Co., mostly pastured w/run-ins. Lrg barn w/10
stalls, offices, tack rm, restrm, hay storage +
apartment. Magnificent home w/pool.
$1,200,000 610-932-1000 Listing#6400945
Chester County 12 acre Farm 1800’s Federal
style home, pool, bank barn, equipment shed,
fenced pasture + amazing landscaping.
$675,000 610-869-8711 Listing# 6420774
Chester County Farm Farmhouse, Bank barn,
machine shed and garage. Gently rolling tillable
land, pasture + woodland. Offered with 59
acres for $999,000 #6423556 or 94 acres for
$1,498,000 #6423520
24 acre Chester County Farm 1800’s farmhouse, extra guest house, multiple outbuildings,
paddocks, spring fed pond, stream. $559,000
610-869-8711 # 6431860
57 acre Equestrian Farm 8 BR home, multiple
barns with 23 horse stalls. Multiple run-in
sheds, fenced pasture, tillable acres, mature
landscaping and shade trees. $1,400,000 888786-8715 # 225208
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I am truly honored that you would share our endeavors on behalf
of veterans and the elderly here at Eagle-Glenn Farm....and I want to
thank you very much for your mention in your column...and at the
very beginning, at that!
While we haven't been able to get the dementia group up and running, the director of activities at Church of God Home, Jen Callahan,
and I want to do so when she has sufficient personnel available.
The thought of being able to bring joy and contentment to others
when I have always found that through my life with horses is well
worth pursuing.
Once again, Syl, my profound thanks to you.
Montie Eagle, Eagle-Glenn Farm, Carlisle, PA
Saddles Made for Men
Are You a Woman Riding in a Saddle Made for a Man? This question
in the Aug. 2014 Pennsylvania Equestrian article written by the maker of
Schleesee saddles is an obvious attempt to apply the basic marketing principle of "differentiated offering" in the context of the contemporary female
dominated horse world. It implies that all other saddle makers worldwide,
except him, seem to have missed the transition from the predominantly male
equestrian world of the 50's and 60's to the present. That's simply ludicrous.
As a rider of over sixty years, I have observed the changes in
saddle design not only concerning the majority riding population's
seat, but also the changes in horse's backs. Saddle makers, especially
the top international makers, are and have generally been constantly in
tune with the market they serve. They have to be to stay in business.
I am partial to the old style Walsall English saddle from the days when
men primarily found men's saddles in tack shops. Not much knee roll,
hard seat, and narrow enough for my seat bones. Hard to find these days.
Fortunately, I recently discovered a brand new one in the big inventory of
a tack shop closing up due to the passing of the shop's elderly owner. It
had probably been sitting there for 30 plus years. The contrast between this
saddle and the modern Europeans saddles in the shop is proof of the rather
dramatic design changes saddles have undergone over the past several
decades. Further confirmation of these changes is the embarrassingly low
price I paid for it. Saddles designed for men are nearly worthless today.
I do not mind shameless claims of uniqueness in paid advertisements, but
to read an article offered as some form of journalistic insight based on such
self serving claims is mildly offensive, and misleading for riders who are at or
near the beginning of their equestrian careers. I say, women you are generally
safe with a good brand name saddle. Try a saddle, and if the seat fits, ride it.
That's my advice. There are plenty of correct saddles to chose from.
Bob Wood, Triple Creek Farm, Carlisle, PA
Limelight Beach
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impacted Limelight Beach’s career.
Harness racing’s latest classic victor
still receives no special treatment or
equipment for the condition.
“I have never changed anything since he came from Brian,”
Burke said. “We bought him
because we knew he was a horse
for the course and anything that
comes from Brian’s barn is in A
plus shape. We thought he would
fit into our program and all he has
done is continued to improve with
every start we have had him. I told
anybody who would listen that I
thought we had a legit shot. I got
here Sunday to make sure I could
work him Monday and I could tell
he liked the track. He knew when
the turns were coming, he knew
where to lean, he knew where to
sprint--he was set for this track. It’s
his track. I think you’ll see him do
good elsewhere, but this is where
he’s going to be best. Maybe he’s
coming into his own. Hopefully,
this is the start of something and
not the end of something.”