Hoofnotes: Writing about when horse lovers used to ride all around Gainesville and kept horses in their backyards stirred others’ memories of that golden time. Nolie Joiner Motes still keeps horses at her place near Murrayville, but while she was growing up, her father, Dr. Hart Joiner, let her keep a horse in their backyard barn on Dixon Drive. While other children had their bicycles, Nolie and friends had their horses.