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Passion for Horses at Worth County Fair
NORTHWOOD — You can’t take the country out of John Bachtel — even though he began life as a city kid.
The 14-year-old was born in suburban Arizona, started riding horses at age 9 and moved to Northwood a few years back with his mother and father, Michele and Jeff Bachtel.
Now he’s president of the Worth County Hoof Prints and Deer Creek Ribbon Takers 4-H clubs, has won equine awards and is ready for competition this week at the 133rd annual Worth County Fair that started Wednesday and runs through Sunday.
“I knew I loved it,” John said. “It was something so different to me. That’s what I do now. I just like showing leadership. I feel I should be out here helping the younger kids.
“It’s me,” he said. “Horses are my passion.”
Jeff, a 1976 Northwood-Kensett High School alumnus, also participated in 4-H and FFA.
Michele’s father, John Fallon, had horses in Ireland as did her grandfather and great-grandfather.
The family was preparing Diego, their 3-year-old paint horse, and Tonka, their mare, when rain postponed Wednesday’s action.
John will compete today in Western Pleasure, halter and trail competition, and on Friday in barrel racing and other timed events.
Last year he became the youngest recipient of the Manly Low Award, named for the late Northwood horseman and given to a 4-H member who works hard and shows leadership.
He also has shown hogs and sheep at the fair.
“I think he’s done very well. I’ve been very proud of him,” Michele said. “It’s a lot of dedication. He spends a lot of time working with the horses. It’s a full-time job.
“I’d never have believed my son would enjoy showing hogs, coming from Arizona,” she said. “But he loves it.”
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A couple of stalls down, Debauchery is looking good.
The 14-year-old thoroughbred, a great-grandson of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, won more than $250,000 in five years of racing. He raced at famed Churchill Downs in Kentucky and in the Breeder’s Cup.
He was headed for slaughter before being rescued a year ago.
He’s now owned by Tristina Lukes, 13, of St. Ansgar, who will show him at the Worth County Fair.
He was “a horse skeleton” last fall, she said, and still needs extra feed.
“I’d like him to have more weight,” said Tristina, a member of the Hartland Achievers 4-H club. “But you can’t rush into things.
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Not visible from the road: A lilypad-laced pond, fern-lined wooded walking trails that are home to a family of deer—a fawn dashed past us faster than I could grab my camera. My little boy and I had a fun pre-nap walk following the trail of hoof prints
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The D.E.E.R. Fence Home Improvement Knowledge
Finally! I get to garden. So ok, I could have gardened last weekend but some family members had to make a spur of the moment decision to move to North Carolina and I was familially obligated to see them before they became a vacation destination rather than the people I just get to see at Thanksgiving and other food holidays.
But this weekend, the shackles of life were removed and I. Got. To. Garden.
Actually, I got to till, weed, dig and build. Not too much actual planting but by golly, I will be planting tomorrow.
First on the list of things to do. Build a D.E.E.R. Fence.
Apparently, my little suburb of Cleveland (which does have a MetroPark but said MetroPark is miles from my home) has become the latest and trendiest place for all the local deer to move into. The small park near my home has become where all the mommy deer take their little ones to catch a passing glimpse of the playing “baby” humans. Honest, they think it is a human wildlife preserve. “Don’t worry dear,” they whisper to their wide eyed staring fawns as humans walk past, “they only look dangerous. These humans won’t hurt you.” And we don’t. We human walk by the herd that lays next to the park’s walking path EVERYDAY and either gawk like fools or curse that firing a gun is illegal inside city limits.
With all this deer tourist traffic, my garden has apparently found its way onto the deer version of the Berlitz travel guide and has become THE place to eat. Over the past few months, my garden has been peppered with deer hoof prints – only “problem” is that the main course they are looking for in my garden has been taking a rain delay. So take that damn deer!
But now I do want to plant and I needed to let any and all deer know that my garden was now an exclusive eating establishment – mainly humans only. I have no problem being a speciest in this situation And in order to accomplish that, I employed my favorite gardening tool – the spousal unit.
The spousal unit (and various offspring) spent the better part of two days erecting a 7 foot high chicken wire fence around my vegetable garden.
Why 7 foot? Because deer can jump 6 foot with no runup. Yep, you read that right, from standing, they can make Michael Jordan look pathetic (and I would have said LeBron James but we already think he is pathetic, so what is the point).
Why did the spousal unit do this for me? Because he knows that if mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy (or getting marital benefits).
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