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Question:  What is the difference between a horse trainer and God?

Answer:  God doesn't think he is a horse trainer.
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 Shortly after Bask died, St Peter saw him being ridden at a huge Park
 horse trot around heaven.  Amazed at the horse and rider, St Peter asked
 his assistant to find out who was doing the riding.  "Oh, that's God" said
 the assistant. "He thinks he's Gene LaCroix".

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FOAL WATCH

10:00 Gather sleeping bag, alarm clock, and 3 old horse magazines then
        head for the barn.
10:01 Return to house for bag of chips and 32 oz ice cold Pepsi.
10:10 Back to barn. Flashlight goes out halfway there, figure I can
        make it from memory. Pat faithful ranch dog's head as he pants and
        slobbers alongside me.
10:11 Remember suddenly I have no ranch dog.
10:11 Run screaming to house.  Change flashlight batteries, change
        underwear.  Return to barn.
10:15 Establish foal watch headquarters.
10:16 Enter broodmare stall for the 5687th time.
10:16 Broodmare flattens ears for the 5687th time.
10:19 Return to headquarters and squirm into sleeping bag.
10:25 Sit up when I feel something crawling on me with hundreds of
        tiny feet.
10:26 Flick on light.
10:27 Flick off light.
11:18 Finally fall asleep.
11:19 Alarm goes off.
11:20 Peek through peek hole. Broodmare flattens ears.
11:21 Reset alarm clock and flick off light.
11:23 Flick on light. Realize 32 oz Pepsi was a mistake.
11:24 Run to house to eliminate mistake.
11:27 Trot back to barn. Boot is sucked off in mud.
11:28 Return to house to change sock.
11:29 Walk back to barn.
11:30 One last check of broodmare through peek hold.  Ears pinned.
11:41 Check peek hole. Mare is lying down.
11:42 Enter broodmare stall carrying Ye Olde Foaling manual, 3 lbs
        clean rags, iodine, and a tetanus shot.
11:42 Mare breaks wind and gets up. Ears pinned.
11:43 Return to sleeping bag and flick lights off.
12:29 Fall asleep.
12:31 Alarm goes off.
12:32 Peek through peek hole. Broodmare fine. Can't see ears. Assume
        pinned.
12:33 Back to sleeping bag.
12:39 Leg cramp.
12:40 Roll over.
12:40 Leg cramp gone.
 1:10 Fall asleep.
 1:39 Alarm goes off. Sleep through it.
 6:30 Wake up. Glance at clock. Attempt to leap from sleeping bag.
        Crawl to peek hole.
        See TWO sets of pinned ears!!!!!!!!
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"By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual
relationship with the universe." -- Albert Schweitzer
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 Harry de Leyer noticed a horse that had been passed up at a horse
 auction being loaded to go to the meat packing plant. Seeing that it was
 facing certain death, he bought the horse, even though everyone thought
 it was a worthless, tired-out old farm animal.    Harry brought the
 horse back to his ranch for his children and his riding school. Cleaned
 up, the poor old reject turned out to be white. They named him Snow Man.   Harry was amply rewarded for his kindness. Snow Man showed promise as a  jumper, so Harry began training him. Snow Man proved to be a natural at  it and went on to take the Championship at Madison Square Garden.
 
 

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