Horse Management Quotes

Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake up in terror in a way that I would never wake up while working on a novel.

Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.

Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.

It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.

It is good to hold the asse by the bridle.

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

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

A horse is simply a horse.

The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fillies every year and race them. The good ones, the ones that show potentialities, you keep, and the others you get rid of. In that way, you have a chance to build up a good brood mare band.

Water trotted is as good as oates.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.

Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.

Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.

Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.

When we played the back end of a horse we always knew that if we worked hard and did a good job we could become the front end.

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

I've always wanted to run my horse farm.

Getting a bunch of horses to just stand there all day and do nothing is much harder than getting them to run around.

Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.

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.

I'm working my horses every day and absolutely loving it. I'm training seven horses but I'm looking to build to 16.