If you are in polo, horse racing, barrel racing, cutting, roping or jumping it’s always the best horse that wins. Once in a while its a great ride to get them through, but you can count on your two hands the number of times it is the rider and that’s the way it should be.
These four-legged warriors are only ours for a short time over our careers and then they are off or injured like Barbaro. Barbaro is probably the most famous horse today. He is awesome. He has been fighting everything on Earth to stay alive and now he needs the two-legged friends, but he is doing it. That is the way it is. Mike Matz, his trainer, is even more famous due to his participation with this horse. Jack Oxley has won lots of polo tournaments, but people know him more for his horse Maracho and the Kentucky Derby. Now his super Derby winner “Strong Contender “put a Breeders Cup win on the list and it will be news.
Adam Snow, A. Cambiaso, Gonzalo Pieres, Memo Gracida and Owen Rinehart all have something in common besides polo handicaps. They have had and have amazing horses. Some horse they bought, some they made and some were given to them, but they are the reason people remember them. A few names we know in polo are . . . Hale Bopp, Puma, Luna, Burrito, MR. Polo, and Angie. They were all part of polo and they will be remembered as the true soldiers and players of their eras.
Horses also have one great advantage. It does not matter where they come from they are either very good or not. They do not have to get the hype. Just the sight of someone who knows what they are looking at from Rocky Ford, Colorado to Scone, Australia or Guadalajara, Mexico. Anywhere you go there is someone looking for horses either to jump like a deer, run like a deer, stop like a deer and turn like one too. And oh yes, there are also people who are looking for horses that will not be ridden. These are bucking horses and now they are breeding them too. So if you see horses whether it you are outside of Prague or Vermont or Santa Fe, NM. Someone will be looking at those horses and wondering what can he or she do. If you are looking for a horse we will help you, but we are looking to people are looking right now in Australia, Mexico, Texas and Argentina. Without a horse you are not on course to be anything but a pedestrian. Lets all be nicer to our horses as they make us who we are. If you have a favorite horse tell us about him or her.