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By JON HEDDLESTON
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If horses could learn to talk, Donnie Keyser of F.T. Valley could teach them to speak English. Since they can’t, Keyser, 36, speaks to them in a language that’s their own, a language he’s learned through love and patience and years of spending time working in stables and fields.
Keyser spent most of his time growing up working horses and mules rather than playing with other youngsters in his native “Little Washington.” Working horses was something he preferred to do: “I’d go with the adults because I wanted to work horses,” Keyser recalls of childhood in Rappahannock.
Keyser remembers riding his parents’ mules out of the fields as early as age 6; by the time he was 10 he was breaking ponies in Flint Hill. “I’ve had some rough experiences, but I’ve never been hurt by a horse,” Keyser says.
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