2009-10-10

Mutual Recogniton Party

"I remember you from the olden days," Jill said to the heavy-set man around the heavy horses at the Fall Fair. "When you used to trailer Stone and me around to the horse shows in your stock trailer."

She'd gone to the Fall Fair with her bachelor friends and had no idea who she would run into.  His honrse-handler stern to friendly face, softened in recognition of her, amid the parked horse trailers on the final day of fall fair.

"That was the olden days" he chuckled, shifting his additional weight with a clearly bad now hip.

 "I was just telling some folks the other day the story of "Jill and The Thoroughbred," he said, ha, to her delight.  "Some standardbred folks was suggesting we needed a ramp for them to get their horses to follow them on the step up of the very same rig that big, spooky bay horse would follow you up in a heartbeat, back when you were eventing him and we'd trailer you."

Then he sorta turned to flashthe logo of his Ontario Sire Stakes jacket.  He was a trainer and owner now, but with some interesting philosophies about horse welfare, and horse sports in general.  She thought it was cool.

Jill was filling him in on her radio show.  "So you know your horses," he said, when she admitted her new crush out loud, on the young Suffolk Punch from the organic farm straw building teamster she'd just interviewed, ha.
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She had noticed him once in between times.  And so, she just started telling him how she'd admired a particular team and teamster once, Her first time at the fall fair in fact.  Because his horses were so incredibly unique in the proceedings in the way they'd waited for his verbal command after he'd hitched the weight to them himself, and then in a seperate moment TOLD them to pull. And only after being impressed by that, Jill recognized him and had announced to her friends "Hey, I know that guy?"

"You recognized that? You saw that?" he was pleased, hearing her recollections. "Then you saw me compete. When I did so, I won everything, ha. All the time. They'll tell that ya that, here, if you ask around. But I was doing it safer then than they do now and I doing right by the horses the whole time too. None of these guys could beat my team, then, and they couldn't now.  And they still want to go."

Jill knew what he meant about the power of a horse that w a n t s   to please you!


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