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Kids and Arabian Horses -. A .Winning CombinaUon AtJessica Cole Training StablesBaraboo, WI .

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Want to know what they'reAsk! Khyro, an Arabian gelding, andDante, a parrot, talk things over, overthe fence post. Both are owned byRanee Anderson, Slinger. lq 'l q.The View From HerePAM O'CONNELL".. .Ifyou could read my mind, love, what atale my heart could tell .. "Gordon Lightfoot, from Paperback NovelWhat would it mean to you to know themind of your horse? What secrets would beshared, what new depths of knowledge andwisdom would be added to you, and howclose would this help you to draw to yourequine companion?What if you COULD read his mind, whatwould your horse want you to know? Is itpossible, with our human understanding, toachieve this "miracle" that humans have longdreamed of?Animal communicator, Asia Voight, wouldanswer all those questions cheerfully, positively, confidently. Yes, we can "talk" to ourhorses.Yes, they will share their secrets. Yes,we can achieve a genuine breakthrough incross-species communication.The skeptic in me had to try it. On June 3,barely off the plane from a photographic journey to Texas, and with high hopes, I arrangedto meet with Asia at Twilight Farms, wheremy Quarter Horse, Ima Silent Teddy, isboarded, to have a talk with the animal.. A little background on Asia Voight. As achild, Asia assumed that eyeryone had theability to communicate telepat hically with animals.Animals talked to Asia, and she talked tothem as naturally as the res(o f us learned to .ride bikes and skip rope. It was amazing toher to learn that this was a special skill.But gradually, as all unused talents do, theskill dried up and disappearedAsia went onto teenage interests. It was not until she suffered a horrific automobile accident, and survived a near-death experience, in 1987, thatthe animal communication skills resurfaced.Like many of us who have dipped a toeinto the Dark Pool, Asia come back from theexperience fundamentally, deeply changed.Spiritual vision reawakened in Asia, and

one day, out of the proverbial blue, her dog,Makeba, clearly asked Asia for a refill of thewater bowl. It was a.s . impJe and yet, as com-plex, as that. -Human-to-human communication, as weknow, is complex. Wesay things we do notmean, we mean things we do notsay, and wefurther mask our true feelings in layer uponlayer of disguise and subterfuge. An example,taken from the book of a well-known and unmentionable politician, would be this discourse from a press conferenceReporter: Will you say what we expect youto tell us?PolitiCian: No, not exactly in the manner inwhich you expect, but I will tell you something. The nature of this "something" I am .not, at this time, prepared to divulge.Reporter: Since you won't be telling us exactlywhafwe want you to say, will you tellus the same thing but in a slightly differentway?Politician: I f you mean this to be in a waythat would have the same meaningas the wayyou would want me to say it, I would have tosay no, not at this time. I f there should occur afuture situation where I would be able to saypart of what you want me to say, then yes,perhaps at that time, I may be able to saywhat you want me to say.Reporter: Might one of us be able to trickyou into telling us something?Politician: Only if I am momentarily slowwitted or if I am not being careful with mywords. Then, yes, at thar time, I could possibly answer you(question,And so it goes. Yes, we humans do havethe gift of verbal language, but one wonders ifwe have retained, or sadly, lost the art ofcommunication. But what about horses? Backto our story!. Delighted as she was to regain her 'gift ofhuman-animal speech, Asia_spent the next 11years quietly, yet determined honing herskills.She worked with dogs, cats, frogs, turtles,any species would "work" with her, but somewere more expressive than others. Mice, shetold me, were simply too silly, too continuou sly distracted, for meaningful discourse.As is often the case, when the pupil isreads, the teacher will appear. Asia learned ofthe work of Penelope Smith, whose.groundbreaking first book, "Animal Talk" (ISBN 0-93 6552-03-4) opened the doorof animal percep.tion to many people.She attended one of Penelope's workshop!classes, where her skills were tested at the basic level.Encouraged to continue, she traveled toNew York, where she attended two more advanced classes. According to Asia, there were11 people in the second class, and of thegroup, orily three were encouraged to pursuetheir telepathic abilities professionally. Asiawas one of those selected.So, what did Teddy tell us? To begin with,after preliminary how-are-yous were out ofthe way, Teddy was brought out of his paddock and taken to one of his favorite grazingareas where he could relax. He had a longeline on, but I soon dropped it in favorof letting him freely graze. We had done this manytimes before, and there was little risk of aloose horse.Asia and 1 sat on a hay wagon and talkedquietly about what we were hoping to accomplish in our session. Eventually. she sought to

establish communication with Teddy.From my viewpoint, she merely relaxed,breathed deeply, and said, aloud, somethinglike, "OK; Teddy, if you like, let's just talk fora while." She smiled and said, "Oh yes, Ted- .dy does want to talk. Do you have any questions you would like to asknim?"My first questions were softballs, gentlylobbed. Was he happy? Oh Yes. Hewas happy. (I knew that!) Was he bored. Yes . Hewould like to have more to do. He would liketo get out of the grassless paddock and into anice, deep hayfield, ,where he could run andsnort and buck and eat. (I knew that, to o!)So 1 delved deeper. Asls: him what hischildhood was like. Asia closed her eyes,breathed, and asked, "Teddy, what was yourgrowing-up like? What do you remember?""Oh my," she smiled. "He's giving me thispicture. 1 see him as a - what do you call ababy horse - oh yes, a foal, all legs, youknow, and he is with his mother and there islots of mud where they are. Lots of mud . Andhe is being silly and he wants to play and runand whoops! He falls and slides in the mud.And now his mother is telling him 'look, seewhat you've done. I have told you manytimes, do not run in mud!' "

1was a little taken aback by this one. Teddy is known as the Horse Police in his Pilddock. I f any of his paddock-mates decide toget a little too silly with their late afternoonplay, Teddy will pin his ears and separate thenaughty boys, putting each in a corner. Hismama didn't raise no fool!1upped the ante. Ask him to describe, ifhecan, an "incident" that occurred, not this pastFebruary, but the February before, when Iwent away for a while and then came back again. Vague enough, I sIl).ugly thought. -Asia asked the question. Suddenly her faceclouded over. She bent her body forward, herarms crossed over her chest. She tpld me thatshe was having trouble understanding this,but Teddy was telling her. I came back as a"Ghost" and that he could almost see throughme.He wanted to love me and play like we did,but he was afraid to hurt me. There was pain.There was a kind of s p i r i t - t r n s c e n d n c y hap-pening. She could not describe it fJllly inwords. But there was a strong event.Now I was genuinely stunned. First of all, Ithrew a ; ; b a l l by using the word "February" to begin with - how could a horse understand'this word at all?But the "event" that was so touchingly described from Teddy's point of view was thevery real fact that I had left to have major li fethreatening surgery at that time, and when Ireturned to the bam, some nearly three weekshence, I was indeed "ghostlike" and frail andhad that see-through qualityof the gravely ill.At the time, from my perception, Teddytook a too-keen interest in my abdomen, andkept trying, determinedly, to touch the area ofmy surgical scar with his nose. In fact, it gotso bad, and so strong was his desire to inspectthe damages, that 1 had to ask Sue to put himback in his stall.Clearly, Teddy was aware that somethingserious had happened. At the time, I had beenso struck by his response to my return that Ihad mentioned it to my surgeon. I also mentioned it on the Internet and did get a responsefrom another horseman who reported a simi-lar experience. .My next q!lery was equally weighted.

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Again, Asia relaxed into her state and's answert() know that he was only

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Indeed, what happened was amazing. Dan

came to be Teddy's turn, Teddy

Instead of trotting down the line and stopoff at a.When Dan stepped in front, Teddy, feigned left and right, and blew past. With his eyes locked onto Dan's,' dodged back and forth, rolled back,, throwing sand in a spray.We were simply nonplused. Teddy had

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whole thing had an air of playfulness in spiteof all the ruckus.Eventually, Teddy tired of the game andwent back to Quiet Horse, but we had all seena side of him we had never seen before.There was no way Asia could have knownof this event, but Teddy had nailed it for her,

Deep in concentration, asksdy to tell us about his growing up .(Photos by Pam O'Connell)right on the money.In general, I learned from his own mindthat Teddy is a horse who enjoys beingsomething of a clown. He likes making people laugh and he likes games . Asia asked if he

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f " } S ~ c i - s o I l 1 C - : 9 i g n i t y . ! . . . ' , ' .! . t p o k . c : what tn:gathenng nature~ ( l y s ~ e l j l s , l 1 ~ v e . ~ i ~ tT?e , On meet~ p l e ! e d d y virtually n h ~ I C $ . t h e m ,

.' . JOng 'QuHtiS 'nose'and breatbmg t h ~ m l O . Heo f t e n full flehmen 'posture, at thatP 6 . i i l ~ w h i c h h e ~ o ~ s w i l l g ~ t a s u r ~ laugh: ': She mentHmed hls ' snortmg habit" whichwas'one cjf the first things 1 n o t i ~ ~ d ~ b o u t ,Teddy. He l o v ~ s t ~ snort atanything.even re-jDotely intereSting, " , _ , ': ' So in' essence; W ~ s It .worthwhile? MostdflniteJ)', Do 1 "beIjeve" in .this;ability tor & p a t h i c a . l l y communicate with animals?\VeU;.fWANT to believe, 8Jld 1 THINK 1 beUe:v,e, an-&IJ:!ave absolutely no other explanation fDr the .things 1 did hear and observe. Yetmy 'cnHcal mind still holds .out some tinycomer of reserve.1 would like to know how it works, whatthe "mechanism" for transmittal of information between animal species might !>e, knowing that these missing pieces of informationwould teU my skeptical self that it is "OK" tobelieve this."1 have heard testimony of many others inthe barn that their readings, too, were very accurate and did coincide with information thatAsia could not have possibly guessed at.

One man, asking hi's horse why he spookedand what he could do to help the horse to stopspooking, was archly told by the horse thatperhaps, ahem, HE could learn to be a betterrider and thus not worry so much about it!' Another was told that her Thoroughbredmare would like to go 'onto higher levels of

...vU l v c ....VI l i:UIU leu lU i l l l 1el UllUel i1 l :11H;;VlUg(in her vieW) owner should do a little better tomanage her career. . ' , ' , .. ' One reading .was riot happy. One ownerwas told by her horse, who has suffered romamysterious illness. hat the vets have so farfailed to ciiagnose, that the horse would like tohave,his life's journey ended, that he is discouraged and would .like' to have this overwith. And that seems' odd to me. Standingthere, last evening, -with this horse in thecross-ties, being gently groomed and lovinglytended by his owner, he was both shiny ofcoat and bright of eye. But what a sad secrethe told us! . 'I f you would seek answers from yourhorse, 1 would suggest-you try this path!

Broken ,WheelRiding ClubGLENDA KNORRMemorial Day weekend was just great.We don't seem to get as many members atthat ride as we do at the fall one, but the oneswho are. there really try to make up for it.Sheri Novotny and Diane Hietpas were goodenough to set it up again this year.1 counted 14 rigs, but forgot to count horses

and people, some of whom you can't forgetanyway! We rode once on Friday evening,twice on Saturday, twice on Sunday, butMonday it started to rain before we finishedour "anything-you-have-Ieft - bring" breakfast.Some of us were smart enough to pack up ,