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Explore the transformative role of horses throughout human history; equines were instrumental in the spread of agriculture, language, culture, technology and more.
The Endless Plateau
It happens to the best of us. No matter who you are, where you live, or what your dreams are, we all hit a dead end at some point in our career. This is when an important decision must be made: to quit or push through.
Treble RanchPublished 4 years ago in Petlife
I'm Not Brave
Remarks I have gotten regularly since the beginning of my riding career include "You're so brave!" or "I would never get on that horse!" or even "You're crazy!". While the latter may be true, I struggle daily to explain to fellow riders that I feel the same way as they do when a horse rears up in my face or bolts under saddle. It is not a matter of fear, it is simply a matter of how you choose to respond to the emotion.
Treble RanchPublished 4 years ago in Petlife
Benney Struts His Stuff on a Sunday Morning
If Benney was a person he would have been the kid in the back row of the class laughing, forgetting his homework and sticking his tongue out at the teacher but this morning all of that was forgotten.
Alan RussellPublished 5 years ago in Petlife
The Sport of Kings in the UK
It is bigger than the glamorous headline grabbing festivals of racing such as Royal Ascot, Cheltenham, Epsom and Aintree, which are the meetings that infect the wider public’s imagination and interest in the sport of kings. British horse racing is also bigger than wet Saturday afternoons in front of the television pin hooking winners from obscure racecourses tucked away in the furthest corners of the United Kingdom. In fact, and there will be plenty of them in the following piece, British horseracing is a huge industry.
Alan RussellPublished 5 years ago in Petlife
Fred
This is Fred who sadly had to be put to sleep in October 2017. Fred found us on a cold November day. The sort of day when there is no sunlight, just clouds and rain that was carried through the air on cold biting winds that seemed to come from all points of the compass.
Alan RussellPublished 5 years ago in Petlife
British Breeding — A Novice Tale
It is day 168 of Tia's gestation. Tia is a Shire cross Warmblood - 50 percent Warmblood and 50 percent Shire. She is in foal to a KWPN Stallion with Dreamboy bloodlines. She is five years old and, being a Shire cross, I have taken the opportunity to put her in foal as she reaches her final stages of maturation, in the hopes of reducing the risk of injury or impacting her heavy frame.
Catherine AverillPublished 5 years ago in Petlife
The Scariest Moments
The scariest moments in our lives can be unexpected and come within a second. Personally, the scariest moment in my life was a couple of months ago when I was in a pen with a rescue horse named Porter. Porter is a ten-year-old Percheron and is one of the sweetest horses you could ever find. He was used as a school horse a couple of years ago, and my job was to get him trained to be ridden again. Now, I'm a pretty experienced rider, but I'd never ridden a horse that needed to be trained again. I spent weeks getting to know him and doing lots of ground work with him.
15 Problems Only Equestrians Understand
All sports have different things that make them difficult. That being said, most sports don't have "equipment" with a brain of their own... Horses are amazing animals but like us, they all have their quirks.
Equine Rhythm
In a lot of horses' lives, one of the primary stressors is that their confidence no longer comes from within them. Their natural rhythms have been disrupted. They have to have permission to do everything.
Peggy ParkesPublished 5 years ago in Petlife
Looking For the Light Switch
In order to begin our journey into unity, and our own individual answers, we need to know more about whom we are embarking on this journey with.
Peggy ParkesPublished 5 years ago in Petlife
Joey
It was dark. Not as dark as night, but dark as in something was different. I could feel the ground shifting as the clash of metal was heard along with the wind whistling through the cracks in the trailer. I was scared, where was mom? I hadn't been apart from her the whole two years of my life. I couldn't understand things so I tried to stay calm. I could hear dogs barking, instead of shifting forward we were now going backwards. When they opened the door I saw nothing but a pen. I hopped down to investigate, not knowing anything about this new world I was soon to discover.
Nathania WalkerPublished 5 years ago in Petlife
The Story of Annie the Rescue Mare
This is Annie, a 7 year old cob mare who started off life in a less than pleasant way. I rented a small holding where there was enough room for more than the 2 young ponies we had got already. I had a phone call asking can we take in a mare and 2 week old foal?! Absolutely yes! She arrived off the trailer very scared, little foal at foot. She was in a pretty bad state with scars across her chest where she had gone through a barbed wire fence, terrified of being caught. Over the coning days she lost weight very badly. It took no end of feeds, finding the right balance for her, she was like a bag of bones at one point. But then I found the right balance and she put it on very fast! She looked a picture! Lenny, her foal, was doing wonderfully too along side her. I started to gain her trust and even managed to groom her a little bit, only what she was comfortable with though, not too much. It was all going well... until... we were told that there was the wrong planning on the small holding and equines were not allowed there. It was a mess!!
Caroline HicklingPublished 5 years ago in Petlife
