NORTH TEXAS HORSE COUNTRY
1 - Texas is the first state in the number of horses, more than 1 million.
2 - Denton County is known as 'Horse Country USA' and has more than 300 horse ranch
3 - County there are 25,000 horses of all breeds.
4 - trade of horses has brought in the county $ 20 million in 2004. Only the fees for the transportation of animals abroad amounted to $ 11 million.
5 - The county is renowned worldwide as an equine training center.
strength of all these numbers I made 'an intriguing guided fieldtrip' to discover the world of the Texan ranch. The bus tour is organized by the CVB (Convention & Visitor Bureau), lasts half a day and costs $ 25 per person. The experience is worth it because it is the only save friendships and the like, which is able to open your gates of the ranch shod. We visited four but only two accurately, meeting the manager and having proof of the main activities of the ranch (running, obstacles, training, breeding, competitions). I discovered that a horse is born predistinato in a certain activity as the parents themselves did not choose between them and galloped wildly grazing in the meadows, but were, so to speak, tempted to mate. Sometimes, if the stallion in question do not like mares, is stimulated by the scossettine until it sells the precious liquid, immediately picked up and re-inserted in the right place. This practice is not very good but the people who run this ranch and deeply love horses so I guess it is just my bias that leads me to see it negatively. One of the 'Ranch' said a sad episode of the death of one of their finest horses took place immediately after it sold at a ranch in California. Did he do for a deck with 100 red roses and pictures hanging in his house. She wept as she goes the story told to us.
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