THE CHRONICLE OF THE HORSE, LLC
WELLINGTON, FLORIDA

The Chronicle of the Horse We are the heart and soul of the sport horse community and an information hub for those who desire to live the active equestrian lifestyle. Somehow the industry and my career shifted, and we bred warmbloods instead of the Thoroughbreds we’d been breeding since the mid-50s. I learned to make young horses on these new homebreds, and I thought I had a pretty good idea of what I was doing. And then watched everyone run off to Europe and bring back the next generation of warmbloods. This country’s traditions weren’t keeping up with the market’s demands. My clients needed horses that they could take care of themselves, that needed no program, no prep, no drugs and no maintenance. I needed horses that could keep up with my new hobby, but they needed to be inexpensive, untrained, and yet versatile enough to eventually sell to amateurs who wanted to hunt and show and hunter pace and trail ride. I discovered the 4-year-old Harley Dude, or “HD,” who never made it to the track but keeps up just fine in the hunt field. He learned to cross streams and fields, hills, ditches and roads before he got any ring schooling, learned his lead changes in the woods, and prepared for horse shows by meeting the hundreds of spectators that show up for our annual Thanksgiving Blessing of the Hounds. He’s currently helping my client Chanda Boylen grew up riding hunters and jumpers on the A circuit and competed extensively in the junior and amateur-owner ranks. Her mother, Elaine Boylen, owned the famous hunter Rox Dene. Chanda now runs a training business in Keswick, Va. I wanted to give everyone another update on how Cozmic One is doing training for his new career. It’s still that time of the year where the weather can be...