Wild Briar Farm

08/24/2025

For the love of Thoroughbreds 🐎

06/28/2025

The Miracle Mare: Spent time today with Rosie, the amazing five year old mare, rescued by the great folks at Cracker Box Palace in North Rose, NY. I’ve been documenting this heartwarming tale since last autumn. Rosie was an estimated 24 hours away from death having been horribly neglected—the horse she was rescued with did not survive. The nurturing folks at Cracker Box Palace at Historic Alasa Farm restored Rosie to her luster. As noted here, just under a month ago she was adopted to a new, loving home. Tomorrow morning here on the page I’ll have an update on Rosie—she is doing GREAT! You’ll meet the new owner and learn what they do—it’s a comeback story for the ages, a “Miracle Mare”’indeed!

02/21/2025

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Michael Matz & JET RUN After Winning The Valley Forge Grand Prix 1978.

Jet Run was bred to be a racehorse, but he had other ideas. I believe he actually came dead-last in seven races. When he was introduced to the jumping ring, you could see how much he loved it and that he’d found his forte. He was just six years old when he won his first grand prix, and his career escalated from there.

He had numerous victories, titles and medals under several top riders before he retired at age 16, but he achieved his greatest success with Michael Matz with whom he had an especially close relationship. Once they were paired, the two really blossomed together. He loved to win and he loved the attention it brought him in the winner’s circle.

07/13/2024

How much weight can a horse carry?

In my experience, a horse can carry an infinite amount.

They can carry the weight of broken hearts, broken homes, and broken bodies. Countless tears sometimes comb their tangled manes. Moments when parents and friends cannot be there to help and hold a person, horses embrace and empower. They carry physical, mental, and emotional handicaps. They carry hopes and dreams; and they will carry the stress from your day when you can’t carry it anymore.

They carry graduations, they carry new careers, they carry moves away from everything familiar, they carry marriages, they carry divorces, they carry funerals, they carry babies before they are born, and sometimes they carry the mothers who cannot carry their own baby. They carry mistakes, they carry joy, they carry the good and they carry the bad. They carry drugs and addictions, but they also carry the celebrations.

They will carry you to success when all you have felt is failure. They will carry you, never knowing the weight of your burdens and triumphs.

If you let them, they will carry you through life, and life is hard, life is heavy. But a horse will make you feel weightless under it all.
Inserting my own pic from the original Mothers Day ride

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