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participating in equine-assisted therapy are usually seeking help for emotional or behavioral problems. The therapy typically focuses more on learning to care for the animals rather than learning to ride. “My grandson was four when I first put him on a horse. He’s real hyper and just very physically active. You put him on a horse and he just falls asleep. It just changes people.”
A LOVE FOR HORSES SINCE CHILDHOOD
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Deb’s love for horses stretches back to her childhood. “I was just a horse crazy kid … drawing horses since I was five years old. I was fortunate enough that I had a father who spoiled his little girl,” she said. Her parents were Denny and Peggy Plooster. “Dad The family of Deb and Keith McGuire (left to right). Brittney McGuire; Chelsey Zaheen holding Roya marched to the beat of his own Zaheen; Ryan McGuire; Deb and Keith McGuire; Hunter Janzen; RP and Miranda McGuire; Hayleigh drummer. He went through the Janzen; and Brianna and Nick Cummings who is holding Nola, with Edgar and Abram Cummings Great Depression and he left in front. Missing from the photo is Chelsey’s husband, Aaron. home when he was 11. He got a scholarship for pole vaulting to Colorado University. He became a physical therapist at Crippled Children’s Hospital & School and worked his way up to assistant administrator. Then he got into sales and was one of the founding distributors in Conklin Distributing.”
Their farmland was originally acquired in 1936 by Deb’s grandfather. “My grandfather was kind of an ornery old coot. They’re still finding whiskey bottles around here. He was more of a hobby farmer than anything.” Her dad rented out the crop ground, but used the home acres for his sideline as a dog trainer. “He raised German Shorthairs, did field trials, and bred and sold dogs. Then he got into Labradors because he wanted water fowl dogs. He dug all the ponds out here so he could work his dogs,” she said. When she wanted horses, Denny decided he could make money breeding horses too.
Denny started adding buildings on the property in the late 1970s as tax write-offs. “When we first got into horses, it was just for ourselves. Then we got into a mare breeding program.” Horse breeding crashed in the mid-1980s as a result of tax code changes. Before Deb started training horses and riders, her brother, David, farmed the family’s acres for a short time. He left to go to seminary. Her brother, Michael, is a retired orthopedic surgeon. Both brothers left South Dakota to pursue their dreams elsewhere.
Deb started training horses and caring for them at the fairgrounds during high school but, when her dad remodeled the “old barn” on the farm, she started training client horses and began training kids to ride. She began taking some
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