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February 09, 2002

(Reprinted by permission of D. Coverly)

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Chicken Soup with horses.

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Top Ten

 

Top ten ways you know that Martha Stewart has been at your stable.

10. There is a potpourri pomander hanging from each halter.

9. The horse's hooves have been cut with pinking shears.

8. The horse treats are all stored in McCoy crocks.

7. The manure fork has been decorated with raffia,

6. That telltale lemon slice in each new silver water bucket,

5. You find carrot & apple treats stamped out with copper cookie cutters and decorated with royal icing using a #2 rosette tip.

4. Mane and tail hair has been collected and put into wire baskets for nesting material for the birds.

3. A seasonally appropriate grapevine wreath adorns the front of each stall,

2. Your horse goes outside naked and comes in wearing al thyme colored virgin wool had knitted blanket with matching leg wraps.

1. The manure pile has been sculpted into swans.

 

The Optimist

There is a story of identical twins. One was a hope-filled optimist. "Everything is coming up roses!" he would say. The other twin was a sad and hopeless pessimist. He thought that Murphy, as in Murphy's Law, was an optimist. The worried parents of the boys brought them to the local psychologist.

He suggested to the parents a plan to balance the twins "personalities".   On their next birthday, put them in separate rooms to open their gifts. Give the pessimist the best toys you can afford, and give the optimist a box of manure.  The parents followed these instructions and carefully observed the results.

When they peeked in on the pessimist, they heard him audibly complaining, "I don't like the color of this computer. I'll bet this calculator will break . . . I don't like the game . . . I know someone who's got a bigger toy car than this . . ."

Tiptoeing across the corridor, the parents peeked in and saw their little optimist gleefully throwing the manure up in the air. He was giggling. "You can't fool me! Where there's this much manure, there's gotta be a pony!"

By Source Unknown

from Brian Cavanaugh's More Sower's Seeds

from Condensed Chicken Soup for the Soul

Copyright 1996 by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor

Hansen & Patty Hansen

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Group 1:

  1. The excess young stallions of Assateague are forced to do what?
  2. What are the wooden poles, set on the ground that are used to school horses over jumps?
  3. Who was the first horse to win the Triple Crown?
  4. What is the biggest horse breed?
  5. What runs all around the paddock but never moves?

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Group 2:

  1. What are the three races in the Triple Crown?
  2. What Gelding was known as "Old Bones" and the "Galloping Hatrack"?
  3. What horse won the 200th English Derby at Epsom?
  4. True or False: Lots of twin horses survive?
  5. When you see a horse with a red ribbon in it's tail what does this mean?
  6. What do you call a pony with a sore throat?

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Group 3:

  1. What is the oldest horse breed?
  2. The most difficult level of dressage is called what?
  3. Can horses throw up?
  4. What color is a gray horse when its born?
  5. Where is the Spanish riding school located?
  6. What is a foal after it's four days old?

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Group 4:

  1. What is a Zoney?
  2. Is it a fault to buck or kick in a jumper class?
  3. How many poles are there in Pole Bending?
  4. When a horse pivots on the hind it is called what?
  5. True or False: The Paint and Pinto are the same thing?
  6. What side of a horse has the most hair?

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Group 5:

  1. What continent is the Criollo from?
  2. POA stands for what pony breed?
  3. Galiceno ponies come from what country?
  4. What country is the Waler from?
  5. True or False: There is more than one kind of horseshoe?
  6. Why are horses bad dancers?

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Group 6:

  1. What was the name of the horse that Alexander the Great owned?
  2. All Thoroughbreds have their birthdays on what day?
  3. What was the name of the classic book that Anna Swell wrote?
  4. Who Sired the great Man'o War?
  5. What horse jumped eight feet in 1902?
  6. What kind of horse can jump higher than a house?

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  1. Bucephalus.
  2. January 1, except in the southern hemisphere where I'm told its July 1.
  3. Black Beauty.
  4. Fair Play.
  5. Heatherbloom.
  6. All kinds, houses can't jump.

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Answers to Group 5

  1. South America.
  2. Pony Of the Americans.
  3. Mexico.
  4. Australia.
  5. True.
  6. They have two left feet.

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Answers to Group 4

  1. The cross between a Pony and a Zebra.
  2. No.
  3. Six.
  4. Turn on the haunches.
  5. False.
  6. The outside.

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Answers to Group 3

  1. The Arabian.
  2. Grand Prix
  3. No.
  4. Black or Brown.
  5. Vienna, Austria.
  6. Five days old.

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Answers to Group 2

  1. The Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes.
  2. Exterminator.
  3. Troy.
  4. False.
  5. The horse kicks.
  6. A little hoarse.

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Answers to Group 1

  1. They swim across a channel to be sold at auction.
  2. Cavalletti.
  3. Sir Barton.
  4. The Shire.
  5. A fence.

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