Equestrian Longevity (Book Excerpt)

Regardless of your age, it’s never too late to start making changes that will impact your life in positive ways. It is never too late to take the first step toward a future filled with horses, happiness, and good health.
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If you ask any equestrian who has been fortunate enough to grow up and grow old in the company of horses, she’ll tell you what you may already know: Horses can enrich a woman’s existence at every stage of her life.

Having shared my entire life with horses, I have no doubt they’ve made me a better, stronger person than I might have been otherwise. When I was a girl, horses gave me a reason to dream and a passion to pursue. Along with my parents, they were my earliest teachers, and from them I learned important lessons about love and loyalty, respect and responsibility. Horses enticed me to spend time outside and instilled in me a deep appreciation for the beauty and wonder of nature.

Growing up with horses, I learned that excuses never substitute for earnest effort and hard work and that practice and repetition of any skill lead to competence and confidence. Although I was bolstered by my successes and humbled by my failures, I came to realize that both are temporary and tomorrow is another day.

During my teenage years, horses gave me a direction in life. They helped me realize that having a purpose was more important than being popular and that true beauty was more about attitude than appearance. Having learned to hold my ground with thousand-pound horses, I never had any problems handling 150-pound adolescent boys, no matter how irresistible they fancied themselves

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Rallie McAllister, MD, grew up on a horse farm in Tennessee, and has raised and trained horses all of her life. She now lives in Lexington, Ky., on a horse farm with her husband and three sons. In addition to her practice of emergency and corporate medicine, she is a syndicated columnist (Your Health by Dr. Rallie McAllister), and the author of four health-realted books, including Riding For Life, published by Eclipse Press and available at www.ExclusivelyEquine.com or by calling 800/582-5604.””allie McAllister

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