Thoroughbred Horse for sale

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Six year old thoroughbred. Stands approx. 16 hands. Great hunter-jumper prospect.Adopted

Arabian Horse for sale, part 3

Here are some pictures my daughter took of the Arabian horse today after the rain. As you can see, the little rascal has been rolling in the mud.

Registered Arabian horse for sale

Adopted, Thank you Karen, hope we can get together and ride this summer!!



This is a seven year old registered Arabian we are listing for sale. This Arabian gelding stands 14.2, is a light bay with three white socks and a star and snip on his forehead. He rides English and western. This horse is quick and bright, needs a confident rider. I would also consider trading this young Arabian horse for beginner level pony for my ten year old daughter. Old is fine, as long as it is sound.

Young Marines

If you have a child in the family who is contemplating joining the armed forces, or who may want to join a group that stresses discipline, athletics, respect, and military type training, the child may enjoy the Young Marines. Children between the ages of 8 and 18 (I think) are eligible. The group my son joined meets at Sacred Heart of Mary Church on Monday nights. They excercise and drill. The group in non-denominational, and includes children from every possible background--just like the real marines. The children learn to look neat and to pay attention to detail. For example, my son had to do forty push-ups because his hair touched the top of his ears (and believe me, he has almost no hair).

Enrollment costs about $70. per year, and additional money for various events. Each year the group has a week long encampment--a boot camp--in the summer. The camp is at Tomlinson Run State Park near Chester WV. If the child passes boot camp, he is issued a uniform. My son received highest merit in marksmanship at bootcamp--in fact, he had the best sharpshooting scores they had ever seen. (I just had to put that in there). The excercise my son enjoyed the most at boot camp was uprighting the overturned raft. They went out into the river with these large, military rafts, dumped them over, and then had to set them right again, while wearing clothing.

They have other camp outs throughout the year. So far, they've been at Tomlinson. I think the camping weekend cost us about $5, but we also donated a little food for the group. The kids do some fundraising (selling candy) to defray costs. The group also does community service projects. For example, they helped at the Sacred Heart of Mary annual picnic, and last Saturday they cleaned the grounds of a Methodist church in Follansbee. They marched in the July 4th parade in Weirton. Next weekend, they will be helping with the Fort Henry Days at Oglebay Park.

So far, we've been pleased with the leadership and functioning of the group. Contact info:

Tri State
200 Preston Avenue
ATTN: Tri-State Young Marines
WEIRTON, WV, 26062
(304) 374-0992
Contact: Raymond Barth III

Registered Arabian horse for sale

This is a seven year old registered Arabian gelding that stands 14.2 and is a light bay in color, with three white socks, and a star and snip on his face. This Arabian horse just came out of training with Jacob Wade of Wade Performance horses. He rides both English and western and is sure-footed and very handy. I think he'd make a good horse for games.

This Arabian horse is up to date on shots, worming and has a recent negative Coggins. I had the vet do a health check on him last spring and she said that his health was in good order. He's easy to keep, with good hard feet and has a pleasant disposition.

This Arabian gelding loves to be brushed, ties and trailers nicely. He has good ground manners and is easy to catch. He isn't spooky for a green horse--we took him up to the fair last week for experience, with all the hubbub and hoolabaloo of horses running around, amusement park rides, clapping, loudspeakers, etc., and he was unflustered.

I would prefer that this Arabian horse go to a confident rider, as he is quick and sensitive--if you nudge him, believe me, he'll go! His habits and disposition are good at this point, but he is young, and newly trained, so he needs someone who can get him settled in his habits before turning him over to beginner riders. This is a good horse.

United States Pony Club Rallies

In the spring, the girls and horses traveled to Peace Point Equestrian Center to a Tri-state rally competition. Pony club members from all over the region gathered to test their skills in dressage, jumping, horse management, and even musical horse and rider routines. The competitors work together with their club mates on teams of four. Scores are tallied for the group, so it is not as easy to win as one might think. One rider may be outstanding, but if the three others are poor, scores will be low. Our team did not perform well, as Heidi, Jacinta’s Quarter-Morgan cross mare decided to perform a bucking show both during her dressage patterns, and during her show jumping rounds. Tippy, Sarah’s five year old quarter horse, is still very green, and though good natured and a sweet horse, doesn’t know much, and it shows. The other team members did their best to make up for our weaknesses, but they also had a problem or two of their own.

Most fun are the musical performances, in which the young riders put together a horse and rider “dance” routine. It’s not as easy as you think—timing is everything.

United States Pony Club National Championships

In which Mrs. Roberts speaks about United States Pony Club National Championships:

In March 09, Jacinta Roberts, age 12, qualified to compete in the United States Pony Club National Championships held in Lexington Virginia, at the Lexington Horse Park. There are many divisions to the competition: show jumping, dressage, games, etc. The division in which Jacinta will compete is called the Quiz. This is a three day test of the competitor’s knowledge of horses—horse management, care, equipment, etc. The children compete against outstanding pony club youths from all around the eastern United States. The United States Pony Club has an excellent series of manuals, that help a rider move up from beginning to skilled horsemanship. Clubs have a series of unmounted lessons, as well as mounted--Our club holds unmounted meetings usually during the cold winter months, when the ground is too icy and slippery for riding. A dedicated volunteer teacher, Melanie Stewart, who is quite an expert when it comes to horses, works with the children to increase their knowledge of horse care and management at these meeting. She does her best to prepare the children for the regional quiz, and her efforts this year paid off--four of the children from her club qualified to compete nationally.

In order for children to qualify to compete in the National Championships, they must win in their regional divisions first. Our regional competition was held in March 09, at a site near Kenyon College in Ohio. Children from clubs all around the Tri-State region gathered and were tested on their equine facts. Jacinta and three others scored highest to form a team representing the tri-state region to compete nationally.

Aside:
Lunch was held in the cafeteria at Kenyon College, a beautiful four-year liberal arts college started by the Anglicans in the early 1800s? The first president was a minister named Philanderer Chase, who was not married and definitely not a philanderer.

Kenyon College is well-known in academic literary circles for John Crowe Ransom, the Kenyon Review, and in sports for their excellent swim teams. But, I would not recommend the cold noodle dish in the cafeteria.

Baby Doe doll needs identity

I got this doll at auction recently, but don't have any information about her, namely, what kind of doll she is, and if she is from a kit, and so on. If you have any information about her, or want to make me an offer, let me know. She is about 20 inches long, and very beautiful. Signed by artist on back of neck.

Shakespeare's Coriolanus

Shakespeare's Coriolanus is a good play for junior high or high school students. It is not that long, and reasonably fast moving. Coriolanus can hold the attention of the normal PSP, cell-phone dependent teenager.

I never thought about this until I watched the BBC production of Coriolanus, but do you suppose Volumnia is trying to compete with her son in being the most noble Roman of them all? Coriolanus is the hero in the beginning of the play, coming home to accolades and the admiration of all. And then look toward the end of the play, after Volumnia's speech that convinces Coriolanus not to sack Rome. Note how she becomes the Roman heroine. Do you suppose Shakepeare is saying something about mothers who are too heavy handed with the encouragement towards glory of their sons?

Troilus and Cressida Shakespeare

The children read Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, each taking parts act by act. As may have been expected by those familiar with Troilus and Cressida, the children were disappointed. In their view, the attitude of the playwright seemed sour. They were offended by Shakespeare's besmirching of the hero Achilles and ribald treatment of Telemonian Ajax.

Dissatisfied with the play, the children could not fathom whether it was meant to be a tragedy or satirical farce. They could not emotionally identify with any of the characters and especially thought the treatment of Cressida offensive and unrealistic. They did not feel that Shakespeare gave enough detail to explain why she acts as she does. Nor was there enough about her to help the audience regard her as more than a flittering shade. Come to think of it, most of Shakespeare's women are wimpy, vaccillating creatures, if not altogther insane. Generally, if they act in a decisive fashion, it is usually to murder someone, or to commit suicide or adultery.
(The renowned and learned Shakespearian scholar, Dr. Nalin Ranasinghe disagrees with this opinion, citing the fair Rosalind, as an example of a noble Shakespearian woman.)


The greatest disappointment about Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida is that it is not really about Troilus and Cressida at all. Did he write it as a bit of buffoonery to mock human nature, employing the Iliad as a familiar backdrop?