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Kitty Corbett

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Kitty Corbett is an UnReconstructed Southerner from Virginia, now firmly transplanted to South Carolina. A high school graduate with no prospect of higher education, she left home for the big city where her English skills and “native intelligence” (in the memorable words of her first lawyer boss) enabled her to easily find employment as secretary to senior partners of law firms from Virginia through the Carolinas and Georgia. Kitty yielded to her taste for adventure and a worthwhile challenge, so she spent those 50-odd years as a legal secretary while pursuing her passion for sports cars, horses, and sailing. Kitty’s last career change was to captain a passenger ferry boat to Daufuskie Island. Now seriously senior but healthy and undeterred, Kitty is counting on her also healthy American Saddlebred “Rhett” to keep her active, which, along with eating Biblically kosher, and organic when possible, Kitty is determined to outlive the 17-year-old Rhett no matter how long it takes.

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Driving Horses | Don’t Let the Kids Have All the Fun | Aiken Bella Magazine

Driving Horses | Don’t Let the Kids Have All the Fun

Hang it all up when you’re no longer having fun, but delay that day as long as possible Now that I’m in Aiken, which I fondly refer to as “Horse Central,” I’m never going to move away as long as my horse lives. I’m planning on at least another twenty years, or whatever number of years God grants me and “Rhett” good health and happiness together. Every imaginable equestrian discipline has followers in Aiken, except maybe rodeo events and troika races. There are likely as many dressage trainers as Baptist churches in Aiken County, and I imagine that carriage driving is probably the least popular of the many equestrian disciplines

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A Path to Tradition | A Sunday Drive to Remember | Aiken Bella Magazine

A Path to Tradition | A Sunday Drive to Remember

First day of September, a month which is usually favorable to me, and I have my first ever carriage driving accident. I’ve been driving this horse for nine years now, pleasure driving, competitions, cones, dressage, or just showing off in parades and drives through Aiken. Never an incident until today. Rhett used to be a stunning dappled gray Saddlebred, very forward and energetic, a bit more high-headed than necessary. Now at horse middle-age of 17, he’s lost all his lovely dapples and black points and has slowed down considerably. Probably a good thing, for I will be 82 this month and have slowed down considerably myself. We’ve been a team,

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Driving Horses | Don’t Let the Kids Have All the Fun | Aiken Bella Magazine

Driving Horses | Don’t Let the Kids Have All the Fun

Hang it all up when you’re no longer having fun, but delay that day as long as possible Now that I’m in Aiken, which I fondly refer to as “Horse Central,” I’m never going to move away as long as my horse lives. I’m planning on at least another twenty years, or whatever number of years God grants me and “Rhett” good health and happiness together. Every imaginable equestrian discipline has followers in Aiken, except maybe rodeo events and troika races. There are likely as many dressage trainers as Baptist churches in Aiken County, and I imagine that carriage driving is probably the least popular of the many equestrian disciplines

Read More »
A Path to Tradition | A Sunday Drive to Remember | Aiken Bella Magazine

A Path to Tradition | A Sunday Drive to Remember

First day of September, a month which is usually favorable to me, and I have my first ever carriage driving accident. I’ve been driving this horse for nine years now, pleasure driving, competitions, cones, dressage, or just showing off in parades and drives through Aiken. Never an incident until today. Rhett used to be a stunning dappled gray Saddlebred, very forward and energetic, a bit more high-headed than necessary. Now at horse middle-age of 17, he’s lost all his lovely dapples and black points and has slowed down considerably. Probably a good thing, for I will be 82 this month and have slowed down considerably myself. We’ve been a team,

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