1993
Chat rooms and message boards were readily available soon after, so it’s just as well that we ended it when we did.
In the Pages of Horse Illustrated In March of 1993, then-editor Susan L. Wells wrote an editor’s note on the topic of overbreeding. This was a topic addressed several times by previous editor Jill-Marie Jones and in the pages of Horse Illustrated and other equestrian publications since. Do you really need to breed your mare? Probably not. Click the thumbnail image to the left to read the 1993 column, which is still very relevant in today’s horse industry.
Here are some facts about the 1990s that you may not know. 1. Everyone owned a NordicTrack. 2. When people in the early 1990s worked out, they universally did so in shiny spandex outfits. 3. NordicTracks were used by everyone who owned them for exactly a week and a half, then were primarily a place to put your clean laundry while saying, “I’ll put it away later,” and going off to catch the latest episode of Murphy Brown.
Maybe that’s not all entirely true, but what is true is that it was hard to escape the advertising blitz created by the NordicTrack people. Even if you didn’t watch TV, you’d flip open your favorite horse magazine and see an ad like the one to the right. Perhaps they recognized that equestrians are, in fact, athletes who need to cross-train. Or it was just an advertising blitz. We may never know for sure
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