"push it to the extreme" this is a story about the importance of great horsemanship and life lessons learned from the amazing equine animal

Push it to the EXTREME! <Tab/> I've been involved with horses just about my whole life. I've competed for about 12 years now and have very little fear while doing it. This has its good and bad to it. Many burdens have developed as well. As I write I am sitting here with a broken collar bone that needs to be pinned back together with eight hours of reconstruction surgery. Yet this …

…her fault. I gritted my teeth together and breathed out. <Tab/>That was the last memory I have with my best friend Moe before she became a pasture pet. She now sits in her own world of birds and grass, enjoying life. I learned a lesson that day that pushing it to the extreme isn't always the best idea. Winning first place sometimes comes at a price that money cannot pay.