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By Scot T

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his winter, having endured New Hampshire’s worst ice storm and

the ensuing eight days with no elec- tricity, the thought of taking my KWPN-NA breeding program in a southerly direction has occurred to me. I mean, don’t get me wrong, under normal circumstances I’m as happy as the next person to pound ice out of buckets, stub my nearly numb toes on buried piles of manure that have become cement, and lose the tip of my nose to frostbite because a certain rambunctious year- ling finds the 20-below-zero weather exhilarating and takes down an entire paddock of electric fence, which I have to fix in the dark because the days are so short that the sun goes down an hour and a half after lunch…add this to eight days without electricity and 17 horses/water buffalo that never seemed that thirsty before I had to break through the ice on the pond and transport buckets of water to the barn, and I’m seriously thinking that hurricanes and tornadoes can’t be that bad.

In one of my darker moments a cou- ple weeks ago (What am I talking about? As I just mentioned, this is New England in winter; all we have is dark moments.), I left a message for a friend in North Carolina to get some stalls ready—I was loading up the six horse and heading out. All I had to do was pick which six horses were going with me and which 11 were going to be left with a ladder to the

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