Tag: comeback

Handsome sheep rancher in his mid forties with dark hair, short beard and hazel eyes standing in front of a wooden shearing shed with sheep in Northern California at golden hour

I Had 47 Days to Win $60,000 or Lose My Ranch. The Only Thing I Was Ever Good At Was Shearing Sheep, So I Flew to New Zealand to Beat the Best in the World

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In New Zealand, sheep shearing is a sport, and the best shearers in the world are treated like rock stars. I’m a 46-year-old sheep rancher from the far corner of California with a bad back and a lien on my land. I had one shot, and three hundred sheep between me and keeping my home.

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Handsome horse trainer in his early fifties with short silver hair, a trimmed silver beard and steel blue eyes standing in a sunlit barn aisle in Weatherford Texas with a sorrel quarter horse at golden hour

At 51, I Had a Stroke in My Own Barn and Woke Up Unable to Lift My Left Arm. My Doctor Said I’d Never Ride Again. Nine Months Later, I Entered the Biggest Ranch Horse Show in Texas

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I’ve trained cutting horses and ranch horses in Weatherford, Texas, for thirty years. One morning in January, I was saddling a colt when the left side of my body stopped listening. A stroke. My insurance company limited my physical therapy to twenty sessions. My doctor said riding was out of the question. My horse didn’t agree.

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