Welcome
to Heartsblood Wyld
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Welcome, and thank you for stopping in and taking the time to visit with me on my incredible journey. Heartsblood Wyld is a small farm located just outside of historic Cambridge in upstate New York, just north of the capitol Albany. This 300 year old farm is nestled in the quiet pastoral beauty of rolling green hills and lush farm land at the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. It is home to an assortment of miniature donkeys, llamas, cats, and dogs, and it is now home to a family of extraordinary Traditional Romani Cobs/Horses, also known as Gypsy Cobs, Gypsy Horses, or Gypsy Vanners, and their offspring.
What horseman does not know the wondrous feeling of pouring your "Heart's Blood" in to working with, training, raising, or just being allowed to enjoy those creatures we know as horses? They capture our imagination, inspire our dreams, and become a part of our extended families. Through the years, I have worked with horses of all breeds and dispositions, but when I came upon the Romani-Gypsy horses, I knew I had found a new dream to take hold of, an extension of old horse dreams. To learn about this horse, to delve as deeply as one can into the culture that developed this magnificent animal, is to find an enduring strength of spirit, and a beauty in the reality of a people who's culture has always been cast in shadows and myth. I can not think of a symbol to better represent the Romani~ Traveller~ Gypsy culture than that of their horses.
Captured, entranced, and beguiled, I have no choice than to hold close to these wonderous horses, and go forward on a journey that is now richer, more colorful, and more heartfelt, than the day before they stepped in to my life.
Come, journey with me, for these horses are like the air that we breathe, vital and necessary for our existence.
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Leighann A. S. Rasheed
November 11, 2002
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