Spring Hollow Farm: Akhal -Tekes

02/04/2025

The noble Kevlin...

02/03/2025

Welcome to the wild west(not very west, hardinsburg IN). This reminds me of the wild-n-wooly days of exercising polo ponies...like 35 yrs ago, Saxony farm.

01/10/2025

What a lovely horse!
I think...I think the TB registry needs to open, bring in some new genetics. Also I think the horses would stay stronger, more powerfully built, more balanced, if the industry stopped using the futurity model, and instead went back to longer races with qualifying heats. The very fast but spindly legged type would not generally be hardy enough to run several heats in a day, and only those with balanced conformation would stay sound.

Isinglass (1890–1911) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse who won the English Triple Crown.
In a career which lasted from 1892 until 1895 he ran twelve times and won eleven races. He was the best British two-year-old of 1892 and went on to become sixth winner of the English Triple Crown by winning the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, The Derby and the St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster in the following year. He was undefeated in his last two seasons, setting a world record for prize money and gaining recognition from contemporary experts as one of the best horses seen in England up to that time.

Isinglass was a powerfully built bay horse standing 16 hands high, bred by his owner Harry McCalmont. He was sired by the double Ascot Gold Cup winner Isonomy out of a mare named Deadlock. Deadlock had a varied career, having been once sold for £20 and working as a carriage-horse before being bought by McCalmont.

Isinglass was trained at the stable of James Jewitt, who had previously trained the winner of the 1876 Grand National Steeplechase. Jewett handled the day-to-day conditioning of the horse while his racing campaign and strategy was mapped out by McCalmont's racing manager, James Octavius Machell who was described as "one of the most astute racing men to be found either in England or out of it". The horse was ridden in most of his races by Tommy Loates.

01/10/2025

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12/24/2024

12/23/2024

...so I am training to add a new business to Spring Hollow. Am learning Magnawave, a PEMF device.
The attachments are made of a flexible, sticky rubber? Plastic? ....that EVERYTHING sticks to: hair, dust...in one of the training videos, the presenter has fabric sleeves protecting the cord and attachment. I looked, I could not find those on the magnawave site. So went to fabric store and found....heh heh.....hahahaha! ....wave fabric!! In the heavy cotton canvas I like!

12/21/2024

She would know

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12/21/2024

This makes it difficult to get things done.....but one does stay warm!

12/21/2024

Pirilty is such a handsome boy!

12/07/2024

Life on the funny farm...

11/16/2024

There was a homeless man who 'camped' in the covered garage where my office was located. You'd see him huddle down for the night, along with his little dog, a small scruffy little terrier mix. When I walked thru the garage on my way to lunch, I would often check to see where he was and then bring him a burger and drink. He always tore the sandwich in half, ate one half and gave the other to his dog. I started bringing him a bag of dry dog food every month and he took great pains to keep it dry. His little dog rode in the child's seat in the grocery cart wherever he went.
One especially cold winter morning, I noticed his dog was missing and he seemed utterly forlorn. I bought him some coffee and he explained how the city rounded up the homeless and took them to the shelter because it was bitterly cold and they took his dog away from him. They took her to the local shelter (no license, no tags, no rabies vaccination). I was appalled.
I took the morning off, picked him up from the garage & drove him to the shelter where we asked to look for his 'lost' dog. When we found her, she put up such a racket of pure joy upon seeing him: yipping, yelping, wiggling uncontrollably. Paws squeezed between chain link trying to touch her master and his fingers stroking her little face.
I paid for her license, basic shots and retrieval fee and he rode back in silence hugging her so tight, I thought he would break her. When we got out, I told him to keep her safe. He hugged me, made Sasha give me a smooch of thanks, and hurried off to where he'd hidden his cart.
I understand the need to keep these souls safe but taking his one undeniable friend -- while legally founded -- was gut wrenchingly wrong on so many other levels.
Any act of kindness can change lives….no matter how great or small.