When my friend Kirsten Lotter arrived on a Saturday afternoon last spring, we were looking forward to a relaxing weekend. Kirsten had hauled her Arabian/Saddlebred mare Stella Luna BF the nearly 800 miles from her place in Manor, Texas, to the ranch that my husband Kenny and I had built near Pie Town, New Mexico.
A seasoned endurance horse and traveler, Luna unloaded like a pro and quickly settled into her one-acre paddock, encircled by fencing topped off with electrified tape. In fact, she took a shine to her neighbor, my Quarter Horse Benny.
I was eager to show Kirsten
