Head Banging and Not in a Good Way
Several years ago I was jumping a 4 year old Appendix just like I had many times before. He was mad. I was insistent. After the last jump he took...
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Arena footing can take you by surprise
It was a quite Sunday evening that I chose to take my Japanese exchange student for a ride. We had the covered arena all to ourselves and as I was...
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The helmet that inspired a Western Safety Stirrup!
My name is Tim Harvey. I own and operate Western Safety Stirrups, LLC with my friend and partner Robert Oaks. I want to share how I came to invent our...
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Thank you for saving my 10 year old daughters life
Thank you, Thank you for saving my 10 year old daughters life. She was riding in early November and was thrown from her horse and landed on the back or...
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Fall off horse onto my back
Three years ago I had a accident and fell off a horse, a freak accident it was and she was a 17 hand Hanoverian, so it was a big fall....
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What a Difference a Year Can Make!
On September 23, 2010 Jordan Rice had a scheduled riding lesson @ Shoestring Stables located on Dent Road in Eads, TN she had tacked her horse Jazz and was walking...
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I thought I'd be safe in the round pen....
My sweet Quarter horse had been lame for about four weeks, so when the vet said it would be OK to saddle him up and walk him in the round...
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Erased From My Memory
Time for an update on my trail-riding accident of September 26. Oh, yeah. . . and just think what could have happened if I hadn't been wearing my blessed Troxel...
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Wear your helmet while flying!
It was a gorgeous late September day in upstate New York, the sky's brilliant blue framing the changing color burst of leaves, when I tacked up my 11 year-old palomino...
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Not that hard headed!
On August 31st, 2010, I was riding my 2 year old paint filly, for the first, and last time. I had, by witness accounts, been riding her for a little...
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Disaster At a Walk
Most of us who have been riding for a lifetime never imagine that disaster is so close at hand. I've been riding the same trails for 15 years and was...
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Head First!
I left work early a few weeks ago in mid September because it was 70 and sunny and I knew I wouldn't have many more days like this one to...
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