I have blogged before about owning my first mare, and how Khaleesi has been trial by fire as she is the most marish of any mare in the program. For the past year and a half, we have managed her hormones very well, and she has only had one heat cycle that snuck through. While hormones have not taken away the reasons she is nicknamed “The Black Dragon,” and I still tack her up with a helmet on, they have managed the physical issues associated with cycling that left her unwilling to work for days at a time.