Mostest Hoss!!

“He’s got everything a hoss ought to have, and got it where a hoss ought to have it. He is the mostest hoss that ever drew breath.” This was said about Man O’War by his groom. We saw man O’ War’s statue in the visitor center of Kentucky Horse Park. It was such a beautiful statue. Before we got to the statue, there was marking on the side of the path of how long his stride length was – 28 ft. That was supposed to be his strong point. I think it took 4 stride to cover that distance even when I tried the hardest.

We saw the statue of Secretariat. This is one looked more fun than the very serious looking Man O’War.

Ronda showed us around the Horse Park. The Rolex arena, barns, paddocks. They all looked beautiful. We saw a group of riders. We thought they were a hunt group. We stoped the car and crossed the street to look at them. We later figured out that they were the trail group that is organized by the horse park. Later we found the workers hosing off these trail horses. We even saw that large group of horses run between rails of two turn-outs to get to their pasture.

We drove by the barns to see where our team will be stabled. We came across Sierra Pacific teams. Their horses had just arrived. They were putting away their horses.