The Horse Story Behind My Horse Story
Farside's first day Five years ago, I could barely walk up a flight of stairs, and in April of 2008, I was literally about to get back in the saddle again. In many ways, I was coming home. I had first learned to ride in this mountain community fifty years ago, and this picture was taken the day my friend Sheri Griffith trailered her handsome gray Arab endurance horse Farside from his home in Moab, Utah, to Colorado, where I had just returned. Riding my first horse Bingo "Farside just doesn't seem to have his heart in racing like he used to," Sheri told me. "He'll be perfect for you." And so Farside was about to become mine. But he was leaving behind his stablemates back in Utah. Would he miss the younger horses who looked to him for leadership? Rio? And Dakota and Diego? Of course, but I didn't give it much thought the day I watched Sheri lift my heavy old western, hand-tooled saddle onto Farside's back. I was too overcome...