"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 8/20/13 9:33 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


In the past 12 years I rode one of them once for about 50 feet. Did
nothing for me. The only things I'll ride must have an ignition
on/off
switch or pedals.



You'll appreciate this. When I was in Kansas, I dated a girl for a
short
while whose daddy owned a commercial stables and a number of horses.

Being a lad from the *countryside* of New Haven, I wasn't much
interested in horses and I never ever went horseback riding with her.

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When my family lived in Woodbridge, CT, back in the 60s, one of my
many part-time jobs was working for a guy that bred, raised and
trained thoroughbred race horses. He had a farm located just off
the Pulaski Highway somewhere between Woodbridge and Ansonia.

I mucked stalls, hauled the hay and fed the horses their late
afternoon oats. Race horses are huge and intimidating. I'd have to
go out into the pastures or paddocks to harness them and lead them
back to the stalls. The guy had several studs that were used for
breeding and it was done the old fashioned, natural way ... not
through test tubes. People would ship a mare to the facility to be
bred with one of the studs. The studs become very aggressive to
anyone trying to handle them and that experience led to my lack of
interest in horses.