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    Albert the Horse Swiper
    Albert the Horse Swiper
    Albert the Horse Swiper
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    Albert the Horse Swiper

    By Bob Fields

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    He trained Thoroughbred hunters and jumpers, three gaited and five gaited America Saddle bred show horses; and at one point in his career, totting horses at race tracks in New England. This is a story about Albert Pouler. The horse trainer, it was said, who could train anything with hair on it. He was black as a chunk of wet coal; with a smile so large it made me wonder if he had extra teeth. At five feet eight or so, he was not tall, but when he spoke he seemed to be taller. Exuberance in his voice gave it authority, and made him seem taller than anyone in the room. He had the same effect on horses; when he spoke they sensed his authority and responded as he wished. There is a movie, or maybe a book, about the Horse Whisperer; Albert didn’t have to whisper. He spoke and they responded. The story describes his experiences as a gaited horse trainer for a wealthy businessman in New York, talks about him training a three gaited horse colt belonging to a family in central New York, and ultimately follows him to Aroostook County Maine to prepare a trotting horse for a match race against a famous pacer known as the Cock of the North. The reader will come to recognize Albert as a man with the ability to train horses of any breed, gaited show horses, pleasure horses, or the trotters and pacers known as harness horses.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBob Fields
    Release dateFeb 22, 2014
    ISBN9781310024795
    Albert the Horse Swiper
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    Bob Fields

    Bob Fields possesses an exceptional talent for translating his broadly based life experiences to the written page. A veteran of two wars (three if you count Wall Street), his hardscrabble early life taught him real life lessons; the application of which propelled his success in a military career and numerous business ventures.After his retirement from business in 1999, he began a career as a Free Lance Writer. His work has been published in regional magazines and company oriented newsletters related to the environment. He has published two print books describing life as a boy in the 1940s, and a highly acclaimed novel; “Rendezvous with Destiny” a well-paced story about discrimination, love, murder, revenge, redemption, and the ultimate understanding between people with disparate backgrounds in small town America.Bob is currently working on several short stories soon to be published as an anthology about Maine as it once was.Like me on Face Book

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      Albert the Horse Swiper - Bob Fields

      ALBERT THE HORSE SWIPER

      Bob Fields

      Copyright 2014 Bob Fields

      Published by Bob Fields at Smashwords

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter One - He could train anything with hair on it

      Chapter Two - Gaited Horses

      Chapter Three - The Horse Swiper

      Chapter Four - Houlton

      Chapter Five - Bangor Trotting Park

      About the Author

      ALBERT THE HORSE SWIPER

      Chapter One

      He could train anything with hair on it

      Albert Puller died when he was ninety five. During his visit to this third rock from the sun he taught Woodrow Wilson’s daughter to ride a horse, rode a seventeen hand gelding over a 1920 sedan to inaugurate the horse coliseum at the NY State Fair grounds, worked the harness tracks in Saratoga Springs and Rutland Vermont, and worked with the horse who challenged the great John Braden in a match race at the trotting park in Bangor, Maine.

      We call them race tracks now, but since the nineteen seventies they’ve been called Racino’s; a combination race track and casino. But from the eighteen hundreds to the early sixties in Maine, they were called Trotting Parks. There were a bunch of them. Many towns had more than

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