Back in mid-February, I had dropped off our blind colt Cash at his new boarding school — oops, boarding stable — in Missoula. We had arranged with a trainer, Will Balis, to work with Cash and train him for riding. Well, Will was riding Cash at the end of his very first week — even out on pasture! Barbara Howell, who runs the Flying H Stables where Will trains horses, shot some video the following week and emailed it to me. (It's taken me this long to get around to editing it down and posting it on YouTube!) The first time I saw this video of Cash being ridden, I'll admit, I got a lump in my throat. So many people think a blind horse "isn't good for anything," and yet here is this youngster cantering around an arena like any sighted horse. In fact, as you'll see when you watch it, you'd never know the horse being ridden was totally blind.
Note: If the fellow riding Cash looks different from the fellow holding Cash in the February blog post, it's because Will shaved his beard. Barbara said it was a "winter thing" with Will. I wonder if it had more to do with the number of comments and emails I received saying how much he and I looked alike. I suspect that may be what got him to shave his beard.
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Please
keep voting
for the ranch in the Shelter Challenge — and you can
vote every day! We're currently in fourth place and still on
track to
win $3,000 for the animals, but every vote counts! We just slipped from
third place to fourth, so please help round up as many votes as you can
so we can stay in the running for the $3,000. Ask your family and
friends to vote for the ranch, too!
Enter "Rolling Dog Ranch" and
our state
postal code,
MT, for Montana, and it will bring up our listing.
Vote
in the Shelter Challenge here.
Last
year we won $3,000 in the first round and then won the $20,000 Grand
Prize in the second round, so your votes really do add up and
make for
a wonderful gift for the animals here.
Thank you!
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