Picturing horses of the Wild West here in Ocala is easy for me with a mere click of a photo setting. My friendly subjects kindly came to greet me as I pulled along their fenced pastures in West Ocala horse country Wednesday. There are more Ocala horse photos here.
Texan Carl Mitz has treated the teeth of more than 100,000 horses in over 30 states, and is known as one of the nation’s best horse dentists. When the bureaucrats decided to try to grind Mitz’s business down to a halt, Carl “teamed up with other Texas horsemen and the Institute for Justice to fight for their right to earn an honest living.”
Nettles Country, in Madisonville, Texas, exemplifies the Western lifestyle at its best. One of the best cutting horse trainers and riders in the world (and 1984 winner of the “Super Bowl of Cutting,” the National Cutting Horse Futurity in Fort Worth), Ronnie Nettles and his wife, author and keynote speaker Gala Nettles, have been truly immersed in the Western lifestyle in Nettles Country for a lifetime. As described on their website, Nettles Country offers: