[This story first appeared in 2005 in a website I had with my daughter. As we begin a new year – 2017 – looking back self-critically continues a habit of mine. With that a piece is offered which includes description of one of the most inspiring sporting events of all time: the running of The Preakness Stakes horse race in
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Yep, pardner. And why not? There are things that can’t wait for tomorrows. Having a horse on a spit of land is one of them. Back in the Eighties my then wife and I got two wild burros through the Bureau of Land Management’s [BLM] Adoption Program. Pancho and Cisco had been culled from Death Valley, California. In their case
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A couple of weeks ago I made a trip to Golden Curls Ranch outside Dallas in Kaufman, Texas. The BLM’s [federal Bureau of Land Management] website put me onto Angie’s place, as I have come to call it. Angie Gaines is a horse-lover whose enthusiasm and affection for her equine family – especially curly mustangs – is contagious. Oh, I almost
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