Comments on: A full featured farm in the heart of the White Mountains Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:35:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Dee http://steeldustfarm.com/uncategorized/the-world-feels-a-little-darker-today/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:22:40 +0000 http://steeldustfarm.com/?p=426#comment-409 Errol was the best horse to learn on- no doubt about it! But keeping him just in a trot was troublesome at times! Especially when a beginner had just ridden him the day before! I think about all the kids he’d help succeed! Teaching them something new and fun every lesson! Jumping, flat-work, trail riding or gymkhana- he seemed to do it all! Almost everybody who has ridden at Steeldust has ridden Errol! He was simply the best.

I remember a few years ago, Jenny and I were on a ride- Jenny on Errol, me on Joe, and we went up Pulsifer and we neared the galloping stretch and both horses took off! I had lost Joe’s reins and Errol wouldn’t stop, we were both scared, but now we just laugh about the good times! With Kristen he did mischievous things on our rides, but we always laughed in the end. There was no one who didn’t just have to love Errol! We all miss him very much, and hope he is with his old buddies Joe and WB ever happy and at peace~

Love you Errol!

]]> By: Finny http://steeldustfarm.com/uncategorized/the-world-feels-a-little-darker-today/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:44:11 +0000 http://steeldustfarm.com/?p=426#comment-403 I keep a picture on my desk at college of Errol and my horse, Baby. Every time I look at it, I’m reminded of how essential he was to everyone and everything at Steeldust Farm. In all my years of riding, I have learned that there are very few horses that can truly touch people the way that Errol did-he was special to all of us. He was indispensable to Steeldust, and I can’t imagine the farm without him.
When I think of Steeldust, I think of running around the arena on a 90-degree day trying to keep Errol trotting as some kid bounced around on top of him learning how to post. I think of kids standing on their tippie-toes on a stool, trying desperately to groom Errol’s withers. I think of him taking jump after jump just so that a student could get the hang of it. I think of how everyone seemed to look smaller when they got on Errol’s massive back: little kids’ legs would barely reach halfway down his barrel, and we all had to tilt our heads back a little further to be able to see the person riding him.
He was a gentle giant, patient with his riders and always ripe with something to teach someone. Not one person at Steeldust walked away from Errol not having learned something from him.

]]> By: Scott http://steeldustfarm.com/uncategorized/the-world-feels-a-little-darker-today/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:24:11 +0000 http://steeldustfarm.com/?p=426#comment-400 Rest in peace Errol – I hope the oats are ever sweeter where you are…

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