{"id":997,"date":"2009-02-13T16:51:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T21:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=997"},"modified":"2009-02-13T17:11:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T22:11:33","slug":"if-i-was-a-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"If I was a horse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever watched certain performance horse trainers compete and think, “If I was a horse, I sure wouldn’t want to be in his string”? Or visit a farm and say to yourself, “If I was horse, this would be a great place to call home”?<\/p>\n

E. Abraham Ola, a Florida farm owner and international racing consultant, gives horse owners pause for reflection “If I was a Horseman,” in the Final Turn department of the February 14 issue of The Blood-Horse<\/em>. Ola’s commentary is fodder for thought whether you own racehorses or other performers and leaves little doubt that Ola is a horseman. Click here <\/a>to read.<\/p>\n

This same issue of The Blood-Horse<\/em> also has a remembrance of Northern Dancer written by Terry Conway, based on interviews with Joe Hickey and Benny Miller, who worked for Winfields Farm during the famous stallion’s tenure there at stud.<\/p>\n

Miller and Hickey both considered Northern Dancer, who was only 15.1 hands, to be unconventional for a Thoroughbred. “His conformation was not what you expected – short and blocky – like a Quarter Horse,” recalled Miller of the little stallion often referred to as the “Canadian bulldog.”<\/p>\n

The article is not available online, but click here <\/a>and here <\/a>for two outstanding videos with clips of Northern Dancer romping in his paddock , and here <\/a>for a close look at his recording-breaking 1964 Kentucky Derby win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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