Police Horse Diary 10/9/03

The two colts came down from Lloyd and Melanie Cancade’s ranch in Canada on a nice stock trailer with several other weanlings. I met Lloyd and a fellow who works for him at Asbury College near my home in Kentucky on the evening of Oct. 1 so we could use their barn to sort through the weanlings. Asbury started taking weanlings in 2001 as part of the NPHA program, and they got two more this

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The two colts came down from Lloyd and Melanie Cancade’s ranch in Canada on a nice stock trailer with several other weanlings. I met Lloyd and a fellow who works for him at Asbury College near my home in Kentucky on the evening of Oct. 1 so we could use their barn to sort through the weanlings. Asbury started taking weanlings in 2001 as part of the NPHA program, and they got two more this year. They sold one of their 2-year-olds recently to the University of Connecticut (not all NPHA prospects will end up as police horses), so Asbury now have a pair of juveniles, three yearlings, and two new weanlings.

We got them sorted out fairly easily. Watered them, let them eat some hay, then loaded them back up for their journey to continue. We locked my two NPHA colts in the run-in stall at my farm, and they immediately settled in and started munching hay. I was traveling the three days after the weanlings arrived, so much of their care fell to my 18-year-old daughter Barbara, who was home from college for a long weekend

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Kimberly S. Brown is the editor of EquiManagement/EquiManagement.com and the group publisher of the Equine Health Network at Equine Network LLC.

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