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"When he left for a job in the city, it knocked the wind out of me. I sold every horse . and pony I had, must have been 25 head. But then I had nothing to go to the barn to feed in the winter when the weather got bad!” he chuckled.
Just about the time that Alson started missing those treks through knee-deep snow, his health brought horses back into his life.
"Stone work commenced to cause me problems. Doc Snead said I had to quit, that it was too much heavy lifting, stooping and bending. So I went back to the next best thing that I like, fooling with horses,” Alson recalled with a grin as big as a Cheshire cat’s hinting that horses never ranked second at all. He started with three or four and gradually built up his string over the past 12 years to the 15 head he has today. “Most of them are off the farm. You know what happens when kids grow up. They have horse fever for a little while and then they move on to boys and cars,” he joked.
Eye* An The Key
Alson’s also picked up a horse or two at auctions but only after a special Atkins examination. “I’m very careful of the horses I buy. 1 look at their eyes and legs first. A horse is no better than the eyes and the legs he’s got. If his eyeball’s nice and clear, he’s all right but if it’s cloudy, if you can’t see insides, he’s no good.”
In selecting animals off the farm or from under the auctioneer’s gavel, Alson tries to stay away from thoroughbreds. “They’re too high strung for this business. My
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