After the splendid dressage at the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon I thought we could have a bit of humor. The first photo is one that has actually happened to me. It happened when I was a teenager riding in a three way event and in the dressage phase my horse ducked down and grabbed…
Category: The Monday Minstrel
Monday Minstrel: Thelwell and a Wily Fox!
Outfoxing the fox hunt!
Monday Minstrel: Przewalski’s Horse
Equus ferus przewalskii . This rugged little horse was found in Central Asia by Nikolai Mikhailovich Przewalski who was on an expedition in the region in May 1879. The little horses he saw were smart enough to get wind of him and his expedition and flee. Przewalski liked to shoot first and ask questions later. Anything …
Monday Minstrel: Generals, Kings and the Power Horse
A white stallion? That’s fake news! He rode a mule!
Monday Minstrel:The Paint Horse.
This is a photo of a print of a Kiowa Warrior and Wife by Stephen Mopope ( 1898-1974). The Kiowa were Plains Natives and the horse was part of the family. The horse made it easier to hunt and to move camp. Paint horses were especially valued as their coloring was not only attractive…
Monday Minstrel: Poem by Donald Hall. “Name of Horses.”
…setting goldenrod upright above you….
Monday Minstrel: The Kathiawari Horse
Famous for its curly ears.
Monday Minstrel: Back to Work!
“All of us can reach a North Pole.”
Monday Minstrel: West and East
The dun color is rare to nonexistent in European Warmblood horses.
Monday Minstrel:The Horse Goddess.
…it was critical to stay on the right side of any deities that governed the well being of horses…
Monday Minstrel: Horses in Western Movies.
The death of the horse brought back regulations and oversight…
