I'm seeing a client in Denver on Thursday the 21st of September and have some open time on Friday, September 22, 2006 before I head to Fort Collins for a presentation at the Certified Horsemanship Association International Convention on Saturday.

If you're based in Colorado and would like some on site help with your business, contact me by email or phone and we can make arrangements to meet in person.

"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?" -- Philip G. Hamerton

"Newspapers should have no friends." -- Joseph Pulitzer

"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met." -- Abraham Lincoln

Betsey has been moving horses around so much this summer I've had to put temporary name tags on the stall doors. Horses come and go frequently. Our favorite pony, Peaches, is happily being ridden and shown by an energetic nine year old young man many miles away. Her presence in our barn in missed. Peaches has an amiable disposition and gets along with all of the other horses in the barn. As she serves as the pasture buddy with the other horses, Betsey found another pony to fill Peaches’ role until she returns.

I was informed that Oliver, a pony on loan, would be staying with us as official companion horse. Betsey brought him home a week ago and when I first saw him, I thought she’d brought home yet another dog.

But, Oliver is no dog, just a very short horse. About 36” tall at the withers, he looks very vertically challenged next to his taller horse friends, but he holds his own at horseplay.

In the photo he is meeting our new horse Lola. And yes, she is a show girl; horse shows only.

I work with Professional Horsemen who are struggling with the business half of the horse business. Just like a top performing horse has a strong foundation, so does a top performing horse business.

If you've had enough with disappointment in your horse business, call or e-mail and we can talk about your business and how I may be able to help you.

If you know other horsemen who would enjoy this newsletter, please forward it to them! I am on a quest to tell 1000 people what I do and I need your help.

Life is short,

Ride hard.

Doug

I will be presenting two talks about the horse business at the Certified Horsemanship Association's International Conference in Fort Collins, CO September 23, 2006. Find more information at: www.cha- ahse.org or call 800-399-0138

Is your organization in need of a speaker about the horse business at its event? Contact me and let's talk about it!