ottawa.ctvnews.ca
Published Friday, Jun. 22, 2012 6:17PM EDT
Bill Monovan has spent more than 20 years of his life riding horses at a pasture in Perth.
He spent his first 80-some years having little experience riding them.
Monovan was born in October 1910 and lived through the Halifax Explosion in 1917.
Almost every day, he drives to the pasture about 45 minutes west of Ottawa to ride his horse Max.
“I lost my wife Marian ten years ago,” he said. “If not for horses I’d be in an old-folk’s home.”
Monovan competes in a very technical discipline called Western riding and said he does it without aches and pains.
"When you're in the saddle on the horse, you're halfway to heaven," he said. ‘It has been my life . . . without it I would be dead.”
With a report from CTV Ottawa’s Terry Marcotte
Read more: http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/perth-man-still-riding-horses-at-age-101-1.849912#ixzz1yxEXJcpD
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All of us horse people already know the healing power of horses but I love it when non-horse people have the opportunity to be exposed to the power of horses. I truly believe this man when he says without horses he would either be dead or in an old-folk's home. What a guy, I would love to have the opportunity to meet him one day. I also hope to follow in his footsteps and still be riding when I am 101.
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4 comments:
We have a fella in our trail club who's 91, and still going strong!
What a great story. Nice looking Paint too. He summed it up perfectly when he said, "Being on a horse in that saddle is like being half way to heaven."
I met Bill a couple of years ago!
He rides at a local trainer's barn. I had a gelding there for training and I had my arm in a cast from a fal. Bill took me aside right away and asked about the broken arm. He told me that I'd better get back on that horse, because he had a fall a few weeks prior and if he could get back on, so could I. He was very cute and chatty... :-)
Man this is such a cute and heart warming story this man has inspired my soul.
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