WHAT IN THE
WORLD
by Kirsten Mathieson photos by Walter Rowland and Melissa Wright
A Girl, Her Arabian, and Their Cross-Country Ride
no idea of how I would get a horse and where I would keep him. But pretty soon things just started falling into place.” Sojourner came to her as if by magic. Lari telephoned Linny and said she had the perfect horse. Sojourner was a handsome 1999 gelding with lots of promise. But at his new home at the Hayward boarding facility, goats, pigs, deer, dogs, cats, chickens, roosters, kids, music, trucks, horses surrounded him — and it scared the life out of him. “Soj was a shivering shaking scared mess,” Linny recalls. “It took me about six months to really connect with him. But our bond grew, and when Soj and I finally did connect it was like nothing I have ever experienced before with an animal. “I could go on and on about this horse,” says Linny. “He is almost 100 percent bombproof. I rode him straight through Los Angeles on the sidewalk with people stopping us every five minutes. We’ve gone on highways, overpasses — I’ve had to balance him on a curb to keep him out of a five-lane road in Los Angeles because
Linny Kenney and WPTR Runnin Rebel (Ortalion x Piaget by *Piechur), aka “Sojourner.”