As I’ve mentioned before one of my favorite parts of the Vermont 100 is watching the horses. The owners take such good care of their animals, at the Tracer Brook Aid station they stop to let the horses cool off in the stream. Here’s a little photo story I put together. Sometimes it takes the [...]
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Horse Portraits
Last weekend we traveled to Vermont so Adam could run the Vermont 100. As did last year I blogged about the horse race run at the same time on the same course on my FillyRunner blog. I wanted to share some of the pictures I took of these amazing animals that were more portrait like. [...]
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Pretty Horses
My neighbour has a few dozen horses. Many of them are beautiful Percheron draft horses that actually get used to pull sleigh rides, hay rides and to plow fields. From our yard we can only see one of his fields and our puppy Cooper finds them fascinating. A few weeks ago a mare and her [...]
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Vermont 100 – The Horses of the Race
The horses run their own event during the run: The Vermont 100 and Moonlight 50/75 endurace ride. I guess the original 100 mile runner started on horseback. For the second year in a row his horse had come up lame the day of the one day event. Rather than miss the race he decided to [...]
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