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Appointments The Hoofbeats of the Carolina Foothills

Volume 5 Issue 1

F R E E October 2010

Four River Valley Pony Club riders attain upratings On Aug. 15, River Valley Pony Club hosted a Horse Management Rating at the home of Richard and Amy Moore of Campobello. Sheila Grymes, Graduate B Pony Clubber, served as the examiner for this testing.

Four club members achieved uprating at the testing: • Abby Billiu from D1 to D2-HM. Billiu is the daughter of Kristen Billiu and James Petro of Campobello.

• Krista Just from D1 to D2-HM. Just is the daughter of Abbie and Ken Just of Pickens, S.C. • Rebecca Price from D2 to See page 27 D3-HM. Price is the daughter of for more River Laura and Chris Price of Tryon.

Va l l e y P o n y • Ben Firby from D3 to C1- Club news and HM. Firby is the son of Helen and pictures.

Mike Firby of Tryon.

To earn the Horse Management (HM) Rating, these members passed an examination that tested horsemanship knowledge. Each candidate had passed one to three previous standardized rating tests since joining Pony Club.

Each of the Pony Club rating levels is more difficult than the preceding one, and requires Pony Club members to learn more about horses and their care and to become increasingly accomplished riders and teachers of riding and horse care to younger members. The top rating, ‘A,’ is reached by fewer than one in 300 and denotes a highly competent and knowledgeable horseperson.

The leaders of River Valley Pony Club are Dawn Dingwell, joint DC, of Campobello; Abbie Just, joint DC, of Pickens, S.C.; Kathi Brian, treasurer, of Inman, S.C.; Cathy Cockman Taylor, secretary, of Campobello; Helen Firby, parent advisor, of Tryon; and Amy Moore, district com- Krista Just (left) and Abby Billiu, with Sheila Grymes. Just and Billiu, along with Ben Firby and

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Rebecca Price, are River Valley Pony Club members who achieved upratings at a recent Horse Management Rating. (photo submitted)

Spotlight on local equestrians: Bob Then, Bruce Anderson, Dale Patterson, Jennifer Breaux, Calvin Halford

TR& HC celebrates fall at new Green Creek Equestrian Park

Foothills Riding Club Schooling Dressage results

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'Collected Work,'

by Pam Stone

Doing what's best for the animals: Foothills Humane Society Pres. Bob Then

by Barbara Childs

Bob Then, president of the Foothills Humane Society, says he takes great pleasure in seeing how the shelter runs smoothly, as everyone focuses on the primary goal – doing what is best for the animals – despite differences of opinion and various personalities.

According to Bob, there are several yardsticks that one can use to judge how successful a shelter is, but the most telling measure is the release rate.

"When we speak of live release rate," Bob said, "we mean the percentage of how many animals that go into the shelter and come out alive. This figure includes adoptions, return to owner, foster homes, and rescue groups. Five years ago, this rate for dogs and cats was only in the mid teens,which meant that for every

100 animals that came in, fewer than 20 came out alive – a horrible statistic! Slowly but surely, that rate has been increased so that the live release today is now 98 percent for dogs and 99 percent for cats!"

Bob said this success is the result of an activist board and dedicated staff and volunteers plus various programs to promote the mission of the FHS in finding homes for every adoptable, treatable, or trainable animal.

All of this takes a lot of m o n e y, B o b said.

"We hold fundraisers such as animal fairs, a make believe ball, and membership drives plus various horse events, " Bob said. "We also rely heavily on donations and bequests and have recently signed a renewed contract with Polk County to take in its strays at a price that

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UPratings Continued from page 1 missioner, of Campobello.

There are approximately 12,000 members of USPC in 625 clubs throughout the country. Along with an emphasis on helping its members learn to ride and care for horses, Pony Club promotes teamwork,

a sense of responsibility, safety, good moral judgment and selfconfidence.

The United States Pony Clubs, Inc. (USPC) was founded in 1954 as a nonprofit national youth organization to teach riding and horsemanship through a formal educational program. Many of the nation’s top equestrians, including most of our

Bob Then's rescue dogs: Bendie, Trixie, Luke, Big Brown and Baxter. (photo submitted)

is still not in line with our costs but considerably more than it has been. We have also applied for grants to help cover our costs for

our newly completed dog isolation/ intake runs and also for our recently

Olympic Equestrian team members, have Pony Club roots. Members range in age from as young as 4 through age 25.

Activities are English-riding based, and members ride both horses and ponies, depending on the size of the rider and the discipline in which she or he is competing.

All Pony Club competition is team

competition, much like the Olympic games, where members learn the importance of cooperation and teamwork.

To learn more about Pony Club or to visit an upcoming Pony Club meeting, please visit River Valley Pony Club’s website at www.RiverValleyPC.org or contact Amy Moore at scmooreclan@yahoo.com.

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Correction: In the article on Lydia Juenger beginning on p. 26 of the September issue of Appointments, the captions for the photos on pp.

26 and 27 should have been reversed; p. 26's photo showed Lydia Juenger at FENCE on Darn Tuff Chad in 2003, and p. 27's photo showed Juenger at Millbrook, N.Y., on Mathew Stone in 1979. Juenger was also mispelled on the bottom of the front page and on the "continued from" line on p. 28.

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Bob Then Continued from page 2 started retrofit of our decommissioned cremation building into a cat isolation/intake facility. In the meantime, we have tapped into our reserve funds to make these two projects a reality."

Since FHS sold the crematorium, the group has made arrangements with the Good Shepherd Crematorium in Greenville, S.C., to handle the shelter's few needs.

FHS also directs people to the Good Shepherd Crematorium for their needs.

Besides the work in progress for the new cat room, the board has agreed to get bids for what FHS calls its "all-purpose pavilion," which will allow the organization to provide animal training, seminars, dog showing to prospective adopters, and other activities. This will be a stand alone building, and Bob said it will become a reality only if FHS receives a grant for part of it and receives the rest from corporate and individual sponsors.

Another long range project will be to expand the front office of the existing building so that the staff and general public will have more room to interact.

Bob was born in New York City and raised across the Hudson River in Tenafly, N.J. He was basically a city kid while growing up and was not exposed to horses at all at this time but always had a family dog or two.

He graduated from Penn State with a B.A. in labor relations and did a year of graduate study at the University of Illinois. He joined the Navy and became a naval aviator,

with one tour of duty on the USS Oriskany flying combat missions in Vietnam.

Shortly after returning from Nam, he met his wife Suanne and after a short courtship, they were married almost 40 years ago.

Bob had two careers, one as an airline pilot and another as a stockbroker. He has been retired for the last nine years. He and his wife currently have five adopted dogs, three adopted cats, three horses, and a bird.

The person Bob said he admires most in his life is his wife – for putting up with him all these years and showing him what the important things in life really are, such as family, faith, friends, and animals.

Both Bob and his wife have been riding for the last 15 years, since their sons left for college. They started with Paso Fino horses and did trail riding and showed them quite a bit.

At one point they had nine Paso Fino horses. Then about six years ago they changed to Iberian horses and now have two Andalusians and a Lusitano. Bob and Suanne trail ride them and occasionally do some low level dressage work.

They train with JP Giacomini and Carolyn West.

Both Bob and Suanne are active in their church and he has resumed playing tennis. In addition, they have four active grandchildren who keep them busy.

"Each day is a gift and I thank God every day for the gift of family, friends, and of course the animals," Bob said. "And I want to thank everyone who has helped make the FHS what a shelter for the animals should be."

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Lennie Rizzo's passion for saving unloved animals

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Lennie Rizzo has a deep devotion and commitment to saving unwanted and unloved animals because he believes that they do not have a voice in the circumstances that befall them.

Rizzo says his work with the Foothills Humane Society has been his passion and a work of love.

Rizzo was born and raised in New York City and lived there with his family for 40 years. The next 25 years were in Antioch, Ill., near the Wisconsin and Illinois borders.

He spent many summers as a youth on his grandfather's farm near New Haven, Ct. "And now I am home," says Rizzo.

There was always a family dog around as Rizzo grew up.

Sometimes a Great Dane, a Spitz,

a Husky – a dog was always part of his family life.

Shortly after joining the shelter, Rizzo came upon two cases that were his first projects – Cassie, an inbred pup who didn't have bones in her hindquarters, and Gizmo, a pup who was thrown from a car and had broken his hip and hind legs. Both animals gave a big tug at Rizzo's heartstrings, and he says he sent out a prayer: "Lord, if there's anything I can do show me the way."

Today both Cassie and Gizmo are doing fine and are in loving homes, along with countless others that have been sent "the way of Lennie Rizzo." The whole community has always risen in support to Rizzo's efforts, he says, and he gives all honor and glory to God and the power of prayer.

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God’s flower Lennie Rizzo submitted the poem below in honor of his friend Sister Rose, who died recently of cancer. In her last letter to Rizzo, she said, "Lennie, I am not going to have any more operations. I am going back to the convent to die. I do not wish for you to be sad, for I am at peace and prepared to meet my Maker. In this lifetime I could not do much for you, though you are very special to me, but where I am going I will do much."

On an early spring morning, just before dawning, before the first light of the day, the squirrels were drowsing, the mice were carousing, the chipmunks already at play.

The air had a shiver and close to the river, the ground was covered with weed, oh how the breeze flung them, till I saw among them, one tiny flower seed.

On the horizon, the sun was just rising, the clouds were all silver and gold, and all the while I watched with a smile, this wonderful day unfold.

A short while after, a great sound of laughter came from places on high, I stood there in wonder as the rumbling thunder, rippled across the sky.

The trees stood in place, bent at the waist, paying homage to the all seeing one, the Creator allowed through one single cloud, the bright yellow rays of the sun.

Then by His will, all became still, nowhere could you hear a sound, and through it all He finally let fall, one single drop to the ground.

It fell through the weed and nourished the seed, as nature was once again whole, I stood there in awe for I knew that I saw, the blessed birth of a soul.

As the earth became green I came to the scene, to watch her stem burst through the crowd, her life would be hard, this Sister of God, but she stood there frail and proud.

Her soul and mine became intertwined, as the bud of adult life appeared, I knew there and

Lennie Rizzo Continued from page 4 Along with saving and helping animals, Rizzo has helped a young lady named Hannah who was struggling to come down the aisle at church. She had braces on

her legs and braces as canes on her arms to help her walk.

Hannah was riddled with cerebral palsy, but as she approached the altar at church she had an angelic smile of joy on her face.

Rizzo says he broke out in tears because he had been praying for

then, I would never again, shed a tear from the things that I feared.

In the soft noon breeze, I bent to my knees, and cleared the ground where she grew, she seemed oh so weak, so gentle and meek, I said, “I’ll make life easy for you.”

When next I arrived, the young bud had thrived to a flower in radiant bloom, but I feared her demise for weeds of vast size, were again taking up all the room.

“Don’t be afraid, I’ll come to your aid,” I again knelt to clear her a path, the darkened sky rumbled on high, as the Creator echoed His wrath.

I stood very still, through my blood ran a chill, she was sending a message to me, “Leave me as I was found, please don’t clear the ground, this is how He wants it to be.”

Then a light from above, shined upon her with love and the weed seemed to kneel to her beauty, and through my despair, I knew she was there fulfilling God’s sacred duty.

I looked to the sky, with a tear in my eye, “She cannot exist in this tangle, please let me proceed to clear out the weed, Dear Lord, she surely will strangle.”

I stood for an hour watching the flower, hoping my pleas would be heard, and then from within, through the silent din, I began to hear God’s Word.

“You’re welcome here but don’t interfere, just grow from the love that she gives, I’ve taken to wife, her very life, so share her with Me while she lives.”

“I’ve seen you on your knees and I’ve heard your pleas, as you sent your soul to the sky, your live is dear and quite sincere, but you don’t love her more than I” I put my head down and turned around, leaving things just as they were, and a feeling of pride, welled up inside, that I can share His love of her.

Now the ground is bard, just the weed lingers there, she’s where she must be I suppose, and I look to the sky with a tear in my eye, “Goodbye! My Sister, My Rose!”

something foolish. He immediately changed his prayer and asked: "Lord, if there's anything I can do show me the way."

Hannah had been attending equestrian therapy to strengthen her leg muscles. Besides physical therapy, Hannah loved her

horse and trainers who worked with her. One week after Rizzo's prayer her father lost his insurance and could no longer afford the therapy.

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FETA trails work day Oct. 16, annual meeting, BBQ Oct. 23 The Foothills Equestrian Trails Association will hold a trails work day on Saturday, Oct. 16. Members will meet at 9 a.m. at the FETA parking lot at FENCE and carpool to the Hooker road parking area.

The focus of the work day will be to clean up the trails at Rondo Ridge. Work to be done includes light clipping and dragging limbs and branches. Trails are hilly.

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Members are asked to bring gloves, rakes, shovels, nippers, clippers, long-handled loppers and any other hand tools that will make the task easier. Bring lunch and refreshments.

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On Oct. 23, FETA will hold its annual Meeting and Barbecue and Landowner Thank You at the main

house at FENCE at 6 p.m.

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(Alcohol will not be provided, so BYOB.) Bring lawn chairs.

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lENNIE rIZZO Continued from page 5

Last year, Rizzo visited Hannah, who is now in college.

Hannah reiterated the promise she made to Rizzo many years ago – that he gets to dance with her at her wedding.

Rizzo says he believes in the enormous power of prayer.

"When praying, we should never pray for our wants, only for our needs and the needs of others.

Sometimes when we get what we want there is another power at play and the results are not

very pretty."

Rizzo believes we should pray for others if the cause is just and our heart is right.

"And if you are trying to do what is right the Lord hears unspoken prayers," Rizzo says.

"Sometimes prayers are heard and answered and the answer is no. That is okay as it is best for us at the time."

Rizzo says he has a deep devotion to the Blessed Mother of God and believes that a good Jewish boy would not deny his mother

Hannah's need and predicament, made several hundred copies, and handed them out to everyone he knew.

He visited organizations and held some fundraisers for Hannah, and the checks came rolling in – more than $40,000 was raised and Hannah did not miss one therapy session. All excess monies went toward her college fund.

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Where: FENCE main house anything. He prays for her guidance in all the new things that happen to occur in his life.

"We as humans pray through our deepest sorrows and joys, but 99 percent of life is going on now and we should pray at this time, too."

It is the simple and cherished things of life – his love for the Lord, his family, church, and his country – that Rizzo says he values most.

He has one simple request: "Please pray for me."

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For Bruce Anderson, the road that led to the Foothills of Upstate South Carolina and Polk County, N.C., began in the West Indian Islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

It was there on his family's cocoa and coffee plantations that Anderson began his life-long relationship with horses.

Anderson learned to ride on the estates where there were no roads – only trails.

Since the farms were on a mountainside, the horses and donkeys were used to check the work that needed to be done.

Anderson’s first horse was named Kim, a nondescript bay mare, Creole bred. He remembers riding in a western saddle as a child with his father across the plantations to their home on the far side. His father would have Kim available for Anderson to ride home to the farm’s yard after school.

Anderson remembers coming home late one evening so late that Kim missed her dinner.

He hung on tight coming down the mountain at a high rate of speed and when he let her go she

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jumped a ditch into the orange field, and at a flat-out gallop they came to a fork in the road. Kim went left and Anderson went right – straight into the orange tree!

As he walked toward home crying and dragging his crop, a neighbor picked him up and took him home. His father cut his shirt off his back and walked him out to the yard and up to Kim. Anderson realized that the

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Bruce Anderson Continued from page 8 task ahead was to get back on Kim. Thus began a life-long learning experience.

Later, Anderson and his family had horses that people could rent on their estate. He spent the days riding both the horses and a green Land Rover, shipped from England, to bring out the crops on all the new roads on the plantations.

Anderson later represented his country on the National Show Jumping Team. From there he moved to the breeding farms at home, in the U.K., and in the U.S. While in England he earned his agricultural degree at Merrist Wood College, and in the United States he worked with thoroughbreds and the racing world in Florida. He eventually moved to the hunter jumper show circuit.

Anderson and his wife Julianne currently make their home in Camden, S.C., where Ander-

son started his present path in And he said his greatest teachers the evolution of his business, were actually the horses. AnderNature’s View. They both work son’s goal has always been to in Camden and in the Tryon help horses survive in the world area and around the southeast- they have created – and what ern U.S. with counselors and better teacher than a horse!

Anderson says his love of mental health professionals and law enforcement agencies. An- nature came from his mother derson says he enjoys working and he dedicates all his work to with horse owners and trainers her memory.

Anderson's in assisting them business, Nato build better reSpotlight ture’s View, is lationships with an experiential their horses. on Local system that gives Anderson took Equestrians you the opporclinics with many tunity to reach famous clinicians, but the one he said “turned the your full potential in anything light on” was Monty Roberts. that you aspire to do. Using the Roberts started Anderson along system, Anderson works with the path leading to round pen the horse, which is really not a horse, but a metaphor for infinite work.

The first clinic Anderson possibilities. An important piece attended was with John Lyons. to the puzzle is that one isn't During the three days he was working on a particular goal or impressed with the John Lyons task, but the mindset needed for method. Anderson also took the task and the journey.

Even more importantly, Anclinics from Pat Parelli, Chris derson works on the mental Cox, and Chris Erwin.

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To accomplish any goal, Anderson believes we must accomplish four things – movement, direction, rhythm and track.

Working with a horse on these four things presents many difficulties, because when a horse doesn’t understand something his instinct tells him to freeze, flee or fight (just as ours does).

People have been programmed to accomplish goals in their lives. When students are given a goal or task in the round pen (Anderson calls it a "picture"), they find out quickly that using the mindset they have been programmed to use isn’t

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Bruce Anderson Continued from page 10 beneficial to their well being, because of the response of the horse.

Not only that, when the picture isn’t accomplished, students are reminded of times in the past when they have not accomplished "pictures," or pressure that they have received from the past, causing them to follow the freeze, flee, or fight responses, thereby fulfilling the prophecy.

Realizing that the response isn’t beneficial to the environment, Anderson helps students change their process from working on the goal to working on the mental tools. This takes away the pressure to accomplish the goal.

When the horse uses the tyrant mindset, instead of completing the "picture" and following their own instincts that they are in danger (that survival

instinct), students work on the mental tools and that no longer happens. Instead, patience, timing, feel, etc. are in order.

If the horse doesn’t react in the tyrant mindset, students don’t have the opportunity to practice with the tools.

Anderson’s goals have been to show how horses help us mentally, allowing them to take us on a journey of selfdiscovery that gives us respect not only for the horse, but for ourselves.

The greatest mistake Anderson has made, he says, was not listening to the horse and paying for it with injuries – broken legs, back, aches and pains.

The greatest mistake was not a true mistake but an opportunity to listen to the horse and really hear what was happening then.

“Sometimes we think we are listening but don’t really hear what the horse is telling us,” Anderson says.

Anderson feels there are no mistakes, only opportunities – and some with happier consequences than others.

When not at the barn and working with horses, Anderson spends time building a pond outside the screened porch of his home with Julianne – complete with a waterfall, brook, and goldfish along with volcanic rock.

Anderson spent some time in Edisto, S.C., with Julianne’s family and went fishing every day or kayaking to a nearby island. He says he loves taking care of all the animals on the farm as well as spending time with Jackie, an Aussie Blue Healer who actually helps him with his work.

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I said, over the phone, to my agent. “The tractor guy is here and I can’t hear anything.”

“The tractor who?” asked Alan, laughing.

It took me a moment to realize that I was talking to someone who lived in the congestion, which is southern California.

Someone whose normal, daily references are meetings at restaurants, having a gym membership and looking carefully over your shoulder when unlocking your sports car in a subterranean parking deck.

“The tractor guy. We’ve got an old Ford Jubilee that’s not

starting, so he’s here replacing “No, the manure man.” all the wiring.”

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“And there’s a lot of call for “The manure man. My horses that sort of thing?” Alan said, produce manure 24/7. He comes incredulous. once a month with his Bobcat “Oh, yeah. It’s like having a and dumptruck – ” car mechanic that comes to your “He has a bobcat with him? house, only he just does tractors. Is that legal?”

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There was a silence before he replied, “None of them. Several are in foreclosure.”

“Mmm-hmm. And how many are gainfully employed?”

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10/3: Tryon Riding & Hunt Club, A Day in the Country, Green Creek Equestrian Center, 8 a.m. Old-fashioned field trials with divisions for all ages and levels, mounted, gymkhana-type activities in the Handy Hunter divisions. Landrum’s Hare and Hound Restaurant will provide food for purchase or guests may bring a picnic. Dogs on leashes welcome. Registration information: 828859-6109 or trhcevents.org.

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When he was growing up in Cherokee Falls, S.C., Dale Patterson had a pony named Princess who lived in the family’s backyard.

Princess taught Patterson at a young age a lot about the relationship between a horse and owner. He tied a little red wagon to Princess to have her pull him in the yard. Princess took off running and jumped the shrubs bordering the property; she made it through the shrubs but the little red wagon and Patterson went through them.

Patterson said he knew right then that there was more to his pony than just being her friend.

He realized that all the carrots and apples he had religiously fed her didn’t change her feeling about this situation at all. All Princess wanted was to get away from him

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Sadly, a few years later Patterson lost Princess to colic.

After many years of attending the school of hard knocks, Patterson opened Full Circle Training and Boarding Facility in Gaffney, S.C. Patterson showed Arabians in English Pleasure, worked with problem horses, and started colts.

While at a show one day in 1990, he was impressed with a black Arabian stallion who seemed to do no wrong. Patterson asked the owner how he got such a good handle on the horses, and the owner told him that a cowboy named Buzzy Mason operating out of Weaver Ridge Farms in Polk County helped him with the

training of the horse. Patterson was so intrigued that he set out to find this cowboy, Buzzy Mason.

Arriving at Weaver Ridge Farms, Patterson pulled into Dean Weaver’s driveway and met Weaver, the owner of the farm. Weaver showed him the barn and introduced him to Buzzy Mason.

Weaver also mentioned that a clinic given by Buck Brannaman was going to be given at Weaver Ridge Farms the following week. Brannaman was coming to town from out west and Weaver said it would be worth attending this clinic as Buzzy had ridden with Brannaman.

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Dale Patterson Continued from page 16 skills were not to Patterson’s taste at first, but there was no doubt the man had an amazing way with horses.

Since that first clinic, Patterson has attended many more of Brannaman’s clinics and attributes his own success with horses to him.

After Brannaman received the role of one of the horse trainers in "The Horse Whisperer," Patterson thought he would change and become more commercialized like other clinicians, but Patterson said today Brannaman remains true to the real spirit of horsemanship and does not use gimmickry.

Over time, Weaver and Patterson became close friends. Unfortunately, Buzzy Mason passed away at an early age.

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Patterson said he has been fortunate to attend clinics given

by Ray Hunt, Bryan Nuebert, Bob King, Chris Cox and Peter Campbell. These are the men Patterson admires, and he attributes his skills and success to them.

The legendary horseman Tom Dorrance, who taught Buck Brannaman, laid the foundation for the methods of natural horsemanship. His words are simple and effective: "You get more by doing less.” "Learn how to read a horse,” and "Work from the inside of a horse.”

One of Tom Dorrance’s greatest sayings was that he was a horse’s lawyer, “someone who represented the horse and taught the human.”

Patterson said his greatest mistakes with horses were caused by not working from where the horse is coming from and not being able to identify the problem that the horse is having. Patterson firmly believes that each horse tells you something if you have the ability to understand what the horse is telling you.

“If you can read the horse, you stand a stand a far greater chance of helping him,” Patterson said.

His mistakes made Patterson more determined to continue learning as much as he could about each horse that he had an opportunity to work with – he said they are all different but all the same, too.

“Every horse needs a leader, a job, and consistency with regular riding and work," Patterson said.

"Unfortunately many people interact with horses as if they are big pets. Horses are not pets.

They are herd animals and they are looking for a leader. If the human is not a good leader, the horse will become the leader.

This doesn’t work out well.

"All the carrots and apples that I gave my pony were short lived when her self preservation instinct kicked in, and she was a lot stronger than any of my horse-

manship skills at that time.”

When Patterson first heard the phrase “what happened before what happened” he didn’t understand it, but now he does.

“If you don’t know what happened before what happened you don’t know why it happened. If a person gets bucked off and you asked them what happened, they typically say 'The horse bucked me off.' In reality, the horse is telling you he isn’t comfortable with the situation, so his self preservation instinct kicks in since he doesn’t have a leader. Hence he bucks you off.”

Patterson remembers a horse that was once delivered to Dean Weaver’s farm for him to “fix.”

Weaver and Patterson knew something happened to the horse before he arrived at the farm and whatever happened to it had nothing to do with them. The horse was very troubled. The owner said this was the horse’s last chance to make it; he would be put down if Weaver wasn’t able to fix him.

The horse had a history of biting and striking out randomly.

The horse bit Dean, Patterson, and another rider.

Fortunately Buck Brannaman was holding a clinic at FENCE that month and Weaver asked him to work with the horse. This was a great opportunity for Patterson to see what Buck Brannaman would do.

Brannaman said he was sickened by the fact that the owner was considering putting the horse down and he talked at great length about how poor horsemanship is not a reason for putting a horse down.

While Brannaman was working with the horse, he paused a moment to rest. In a split second the horse lunged at Brannaman, mouth wide open, biting him in the chest. Brannaman’s microphone receiver was in his pocket and it was destroyed.

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Combining law and horses: Jennifer Breaux

by Barbara Childs

"Educate yourself," Upstate equine attorney Jennifer Breaux tells other equestrians. "Horses create a lot of liability for their owners and no one wants to fall prey to our litigious society with a lawsuit.

"Use good common horse sense at all times. I always tell my clients to value their valuables.

If a horse, your barn, or your livelihood is important to you, then get help when you need it and make yourself aware of the laws of your state.”

Breaux, who practices in Greenville, S.C., and has numerous clients in the Thermal Belt area, gives regular presentations on equine law to groups. She also provides individual counseling on equine law issues, prepares contracts and agreements and represents parties in disputes or lawsuits.

Breaux was born in Charleston, S.C., and raised in Green-

Dale Patterson Continued from page 18 the clinic. He caressed the horse’s muzzle and gently massaged his lips and nostrils.

“I thought this was a very risky move considering the horse’s history," Patterson said.

"Being the great horseman that he is, Brannaman reconfirmed how you get more by doing less. With additional work and handling at Weaver Ridge Farm the horse is back on the show circuit and

ville, S.C. She first fell in love with horses around the second grade and started taking group lessons at a local barn.

In middle school her parents leased a wonderful buckskin pony for her. The buckskin mare wasn’t afraid to kick or buck, but Breaux loved her anyway. At a very impressionable age, someone told Breaux that “you are not a good rider until you don’t remember how many times you’ve fallen off a horse.”

Breaux took this to heart and rode any horse she could – the crazier the better! And after many years, she has forgotten how many times she has fallen off a horse.

Breaux attended Riverside High School in Greer, S.C., and then moved on to Clemson Uni-

versity, where she received her bachelor’s degree in French and international trade with a minor in economics. She also rode for the equestrian team while at Clemson.

After attending law school at the Charleston School of Law and passing the bar, she clerked for Judge Welmaker in Greenville for a year and then joined Devlin and Parkinson, P.A. in Greenville, where her focus was on defending doctors and hospitals in medical malpractice suits. She also devoted much of her time to equine law.

There are many people in Breaux’s life that she admires and trusts. First would be her parents.

Her father, who she says is a very hard worker, always wanted the best for his siblings. He encour-

aged her to get an education that didn’t end in undergraduate school and he kept Breaux focused on her future.

She has also been deeply influenced by Tom Brissey, her family's lawyer, who mentored her. Breaux said she was given the privilege of working with him during her last year at Clemson.

She said she will always remember an elderly couple he represented. They were members of his church and were not financially privileged. Brissey refused to accept any payment for the work he did for them, but after much insistence he did accept a gold bracelet as payment.

His example of generosity and grace, Breaux said, set the tone for her as she considered her future. It exemplified to her how lawyers have the ability to do amazing things to help others.

doing well.”

The knowledge that Patterson gained from that experience was priceless, he said.

It taught him that you always leave a horse in a better place than you found it.

Patterson lives by that value today. He always eats before he works a horse because he never knows when his next meal is coming.

No matter how long it takes,

Patterson will not leave a horse if it is not in a better state of mind than before he started working with it.

The knowledge an owner gains is the most important part of the recovery of a troubled horse.

Patterson says that the most troubled horses he has ever worked with have taught him the most.

Patterson now holds a pas-

sion to teach people how to improve their horsemanship skills so that they understand where the horse is coming from and how to build on that concept. Seeing an owner and a horse connect is an ultimate and rewarding experience, he said.

Horses have taught Patterson patience and understanding, and he said they are the most forgiving animals in creation.

“When you can look into a horse’s eyes and see his heart, you’ll know what I mean.”

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Slated for Sunday, October 3, the first annual “Day in the Country” will open at 8 a.m. with old-fashioned field trials in the park’s 95 acres. All disciplines of riders are invited to come out and take a whirl at the outdoor rolling course. The words of the day are “informal” and “fun,” with divisions for all ages and levels.

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Spectators are welcome to bring a chair or blanket and join in the daylong festivities.

Admission is a small fee per carload.

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wedding and fixing up the house she and her fiancé recently purchased. It needs a lot of updating and keeps them both very busy.

Breaux inherited a vision for recreating spaces from her parents, who always enjoyed real estate as one of their hobbies.

Breaux also loves to paint and regularly takes painting lessons with Julia Peters in Greenville.

During the summer months she is out on Lake Hartwell as much as possible.

Other than that she said she is happy cooking dinner and enjoying a glass of wine with her fiancé.

Her family and friends are the most important thing in life to Breaux. She said she is grateful for them and all the other blessings she has in a busy and full life.

Finally, Breaux worked for Brown Parkinson, who today is a mentor and friend and a continuous example of an exceptional lawyer.

The equine discipline that Breaux loves best is the hunter jumper scene, and that is the only one she has ever competed in. She also enjoys the challenge of dressage and the comforts of trail riding, and says she would like to take up cross country riding next.

Today, Breaux's goals are to continue to grow as a professional in equine law and serve her clients to the best of her ability.

She is also busy planning for her

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Carol Ann Burns & Jasper winning Reinsmanship at the 2009 Carolina Carriage Club Dressage and Pleasure Show. This year's event will be held Sept. 24-26 at FENCE. Dressage starts Friday, Sept. 24 at 9 a.m., including Training, Preliminary and, for the first time, Intermediate classes. Saturday action begins at 9 a.m., with the elegant Turnout classes, followed by Working Pleasure classes for ponies, horses, and VSE’s (Very Small Equines). Following the lunch break are Lady to Drive, Gentleman to Drive, Junior to Drive, Jack Benny to Drive, and Carriage Dog. The final show class for the day will be the new Draft Pleasure Class.

Obstacle, Reinsmanship and Reinsmanship Free Style classes will also be held. Information: 828-894-2437. (photo by Russ Burns)

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Tryon Hounds holds Hunt Week Nov. 10-13 Tryon Hounds will hold its Hunt Week Nov. 10-13.

Wednesday, Nov. 10 The events kick off with a hunt Wednesday, Nov. 10 at 8 a.m. at Born Free Farm in Cam-

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A hunt breakfast at the farm will follow the hunt.

At 6:30 p.m., a welcome supper will be held at the Tryon Hounds Club House.

Thursday, Nov. 11 At 8 a.m., participants will meet for a hunt at The Meadows at Campbell Creek, Campobello. A hunt breakfast hosted

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At 6:30 p.m., an oyster roast and bonfire will be held at the Greenspace LLC of Fairview Shed.

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Tryon Hounds Continued from page 24 Friday, Nov. 12

A trail ride will be held Friday, Nov. 12 at 8 a.m. at a location to be announced.

A cocktail party and Town and Country Fashion Show will be held that evening at 6 p.m. at the home of Heidi Mendez.

Saturday, Nov. 13

A hunt will be held at 8 a.m. at the Iron Bridge in Campobello.

After the hunt, participants will

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enjoy a hunt breakfast at the home of Martha Lott.

To reserve your place for the Tryon Hounds Hunt Week, contact Heidi Mendez at 828817-5996 (cell), 828-859-2031 (home), heidi45@yahoo.com (email).

Stall reservations are available at FENCE during the week. Contact Melissa Le Roy at 828-8599021 or melissa@fence.org.

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'Just a man' Continued from page 25 using his natural horsemanship methods and Halford took one of his horses over to the clinic to give some of this stuff a try.

It turned out that Buck's wife, Mary, gave him his first glimpse of a different way of bringing along a young horse. Until that time, Halford would get on and ride the bucks out of the young ones.

Since then, he has studied every natural horseman and woman that he could find. He says they have all taught him a lot of techniques, but by far the best teachers have been the horses themselves. Halford usually rides 7 to 10 different horses a day – every day, rain or shine – and it blows his mind how they are constantly showing him something different about themselves. Halford believes that if he lives to be a thousand years old, he will still not have learned everything about these special creatures.

Halford embraced his passion for riding and training horses like an obsessed person. People started asking Halford for help with their horses and issues, so he started giving lessons and clinics and doing private lessons. Now Halford wants to help horses and people to better understand their mounts.

Halford says he loves all horse breeds but is partial to quarter horses and thoroughbreds. He appreciates horses with spunk and energy as they are easier to ride and want to go forward. He likes jumping, reining, cutting, roping, dressage, and driving.

Halford's goals today are to be a better horseman than he was yesterday, and if somewhere along the line he becomes rich and famous that's great, too! But if he doesn't he says he's still going to be out there every day trying to get along with his horses and riding to the best of his and their abilities.

Halford's other love is playing the guitar. He started when he was 14

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and became a little obsessed with that, too. Halford likes to write songs, get them just perfect, and then go into a recording studio and lay down tracks. Halford usually does lead guitar, rhythm guitar, base guitar, and vocals.

"It's a great way of letting out stuff that has penned up inside me. It's not good to keep all that stuff down in the basement. It's the same way with horses. We need to help them get all that stuff out of the basement. They are happier and healthier if we do."

The thing that Halford values most in life is his relationship with God. His family buried one of his baby sisters this past year and Halford says he misses her a lot.

He knows that through her and his deep faith in Christ, he will see her again. Halford says he loves his family and God because he knows they love him.

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Halford says people are always telling him that what he does with horses is amazing. He hears things like "You have a gift from God" or "You are a horse whisperer."

"I must admit it does make me feel good," Halford says, "but so as not to let pride get in the way I'd like to say that I've always been a cowboy and I aspire to be a horseman. I'm just a man that rides horses. All I want to do is live, love, and ride. It's just simple!"

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Six members of River Valley Pony Club qualified and attended the East Coast Pony Club Championships in Lexington, Va., for July 28 - Aug. 1.

Clockwise from top left: Ragan Brian, Samuel Bayse, Dakota DePalma, Ben Firby, Emily Dingwell and Samantha Firby. Ragan Brian, Dakota DePalma, Samantha Firby and Emily Dingwell represented the First Level Dressage team and finished 4th overall. Benjamin Firby was a member of a scramble show jumping team that finished 5th overall, and he also placed 7th in equitation. Samuel Bayse won his swimming division in tetrathlon and finished 4th overall. Sponsors included Holly Adams (trainer at Still Creek Farms), Bill Reed (farrier), Tryon Riding & Hunt Club, Foothills Riding Club, Little Mountain Farm Supply, Blue Ridge Hunter Jumper Association, Darryl Meyer (farrier), Tryon Equine Hospital, Tile Specialties Corporation, Dot Moyer, Salley Sturdevant (S&S Designs), Ric and Cathy Rondell, Madelon Wallace (WWE Realty), Francis L. Brian, Roberta Axelrod, and The Hungry Fox.(photos submitted)

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