Equine Health Quotes

My mother was actually a breeder, believe it or not, and she used to name horses after some of my songs.

I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.

As a veterinarian and lover of animals, I feel the time is now to stop the practice of horse soring for good.

They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility.

Water trotted is as good as oates.

You read the stories about horses being starved at Santa Anita, but a horse can't starve at Santa Anita! I mean, there's just bags of carrots all over the place; food is everywhere. They don't starve any horses!

A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.

My kids are one, three, five and eight, and we are all horsey. The kids have got their ponies and can ride. Our foundation mare is special to our hearts. She was one of my first ever horses. She was my first ever winner at Chester, which is also special, and she's just the apple of our eyes, really.

I love producing horses, and we have some great young horses at home. We'll look forward and train those and start again.

One time I had to file the teeth of a carthorse. They're such gentle creatures.

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.