The Smoothest Ride ... Tips, Articles, and Stories For The Paso Fino Horse Enthusiast
Where
Have All The Foals Gone?
by
Lynn Gallup,
www.smoothride4u.com
Keeping a watchful eye out all during the day
Checking the mama and udder for all that may
Soon to be delivered a long awaited newborn foal.
Be it every hour into the night darkness and cold.
Mama-to-be seems nervous and then content,
Making it hard to pinpoint the exact moment.
Your nights of without much sleep
Catch up with you during every peep.
At long last on one more visit to the barn,
You realize there's something's very wrong.
Mama is very restless and no longer big,
With no leggy young'n to nurse and lick.
She's so distressed as the newborn foal
Conceived long ago lies so lifeless and cold.
You feel so helpless and sad when you see
This tiny young horse in all its beauty...
Long legs, wet silky coat, and dainty head
Laying so still on its new straw bed.
You wonder if there was something you could of done
Or was it just nature's odds of a smoking gun.
Long foal legs that don't always lay just right
At the moment of delivery into a new light.
Did all the natal fluids clear out of delicate lungs
So the new little one can breathe and one day run.
In all your wonder of the not so blessed event
You gaze to the heavens to what was meant,
And see all the little fillies and colts that away have passed;
Playing a game of tag, then napping in the sweet new grass.
You hear gentle whinnies and neighs answered softly from afar.
They are in a safe place now, and will grow tall and strong.
You give them a name as to think what they could be
But in heaven you know they'll always be happy and free.
dedicated
in memory of:
Arwen de Gracia
Idolo Lorien x Arwen Lorien ('85)
Pegaso Dos de Gracia Pegaso que si x Isabel de Intocable
('98)
Ariel de Gracia Aldeano
de Sol Reye x Insignia de Gracia ('99)
Turista Dos de Gracia El
Turista x Isabel de Intocable ('00)
Isabel de Intocable Capuchino
de Bochica x Presumida de Besilu ('00)
Exquisita
Luna de Gracia
Emperador La Estrella x Insignia
de Gracia ('95)
Lynn Gallup was introduced to the Paso Fino breed in 1975, while owning a Half-Arabian at the time. She began actively showing them in the Atlantic and Piedmont regional Paso Fino shows in the mid-70’s. She owns Gracewood Farm Paso Finos in New Hill, North Carolina, home to about 17 Paso Fino horses, where she continues to train/breed her own Paso Fino horses. Lynn is a multi-gaited horse breed show judge: Paso Finos, Rocky Mountains, and Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horses, and a Registered "R" Judge with USEF. The “Tips” are learned from hands on experience and attending clinics over the years involved with horses. Lynn’s website “The Smoothest Ride” went online in 1997, and offers helpful and informative tips, articles, and stories for the Paso Fino horse enthusiast. New URL: www.smoothride4u.com.