Category: Reviews
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Book Review: Undomesticated Women by Anna Blake
This is a very entertaining book. It follows the travels of Anna Blake as she and her dog Mister drove 14 thousand miles in eight months pulling an A frame trailer she calls the Rollin’ Rancho This book takes Anna to clinics she had arranged in advance and takes us with her as she crosses the USA through 30 states…
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Book Review: Mirror Horse by Tamara Williamson.
If your have a horse mad son or daughter this book is required reading, If I had read it when my daughter was riding I would have insited she read it! But what is a mirror horse? The author describes it in the prologue. “As a rider you can confuse yourself, thinking you are the…
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Probiotic 8 for Dogs and Cats
If you follow this blog you will know I am a big supporter of Omega Alpha Products for horses.Biasini takes several Omega Alpha every day. And now I have found another product that works well . We have a mini Schnauzer and she has a somewhat delicate digestive system . Our vet recommended we give…
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Book Review: Stable Relation by Anna Blake.
I have read Anna Blakes’ poetry and have enjoyed it very much. I have previously reviewed her poetry books Horse Prayers and Horse Woman. But Stable Relation is the first time I have read her autobiogaphical prose. And I have to say I relished reading this book. Anna Blake is a very accomplished horse person…
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Book Review: Riding Through My Life. HRH the Princess Royal.
If you are a horse person you will love this book as I did. If you are not , you will find an interesting read about a very unique woman .
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Book review: For the love of the horse by Mark Rashid.
I first heard of this book from fellow blogger Mary Lynne Carpenter in a review of this book on her blog “The Backyard Horse Blog.” I am glad I decided to get the book as I found it very interestng and there were some of the topics covered that were important to me and Biasini.…
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Book Review: In Plain Sight by Anna Rashbrook
What ever has happened in the past is always subject to memories,interpretations. and reactions. A writer can take events and twist and change them to his own will. And this is what I am doing now using the past to create a new story that holds on to the turth as far as it can…
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Your horse is clipped. Now he’s itchy! What can you do?
Biasini has had his first body clip.I always find that after the clip he gets itchy and his skin seems dry. Also there is little shine to his coat. What to do?I spray him with Omega Alpha’s Herba Coat and use a soft brush to brush it into his coat. It contains citronella, lavender, neem…
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Book Review: A Christmas Canter by Anna Rashbrook.
This book is a very entertaining collection of short stories. The first one is Christmas Canter The Ghost of Barley. This story is a very clever reworking of Charles Dickens Christmas Carol. However there is one thing that makes this new reworking specially entertaining. Scrooge is…….a horse! The entire story is written from his point…
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Book Review: Horse by Geraldine Brooks
This is much more than just a ‘horse’ story. There is a horse in this story and he was a real life Thoroughbred stallion, called Lexington, who broke records with his wins as a racehorse and as a sire was the leading sire in North America 16 times. . He lived from 1850 to 1875.…
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Saturday Shopping Spree!
Yesterday Oakcrest Farm, where I ride, hosted a shopping opportunity with products by Albion, Equestrian Stockholm and Fairfax. I already have some Equestrian Stockholm saddle pads and they not only look smart but they wash up well and wear well. So , of course, I had to get one more. And then I saw there…
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Review:The Book of Joy
The Book of Joy : His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams. For 2022 I chose the word Joy to be my word for the year. When I saw this book I thought it was required reading. Several bloggers have expressed interest in knowing more about this book so I…