Wild Icicles by Renee Lund Via Flickr: Here on the Apache Sitgreaves NF are the beautiful Heber wild horses. Winter brings stunning landscapes all covered in white.

Commission for Fili

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booping yearling noses and making silly sounds is good for the soul 🤷

Monoline horse logo design ♡♡♡

Behind a great concept there is a seed of inspiration from real life.

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This is Lucky! He is indeed very “lucky” 😍 On May 11, 2021 Lucky rolled and was trapped under the lower portion of his stall at his owners home. It happened in the middle of the night and Lucky struggled to escape. The owner called us that morning after he cut Lucky free and we rushed to go help. Lucky was down and unable to stand. He had a pelvic fracture and peroneal nerve injury. We used a truck to move him to our stables (first time in the history of this island where a vehicle was used to move a pony). Lucky was strong and wanted to survive so we worked very hard for many months on rehabilitation. Going from unable to stand…to walking on three legs…to limping…to swimming…to running! Today you would never know Lucky suffered such a bad injury. He is a resident here and helps us out by pulling a cart a few times a week bringing grass or rice bran. This keeps his mind busy and helps keep him in shape. In years past Lucky would have been slaughtered…but thankfully things have changed and we can help what often seems hopeless. Ponies like Lucky are why our motto is “changing the world, one pony at a time” ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Lucky 🍀 is sponsored by Mrs. J. Xue #horsesofgili #lombokhorse #horsesofasia #rescue horse #rescuepony #ilovehorses #makeadifference #donatenow #horsesofinstagram #rescuehorse #rescuepony #horserescue #ponyrescue #horsecharity #indonesia #giliislands #giliTrawangan #oneponyatatime https://www.paypal.me/horsesofgili https://gofund.me/afb3daa2 https://www.patreon.com/horses_of_gili Cash app $horsesofgili https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5Oxv4vTH8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🖤Mother and Child🖤

Grevenbroich, NRW, DE, 2023

Oil painting available for sale

DESCRIPTIVE RIDING

Describing my horse, not his ears, although they are the best ears a horse could every have, despite being told by a lady in the warm up of a show he had ears just like a donkey, but describe him in training terms. Growing up in Ireland we were offered lots of wonderfully lyrical stories about horses, their parents, their uncles and aunts because we do genuinely come from the land of storytellers, for better and worse. One breeder I worked with could tell me the lineage of every horse on the farm and what its half sisters older brother competed in. I’m still none the wiser to whether it cold bend left or not. This kind of describing, as well as brain melting makes it very easy to get stuck in descriptors that are more reflective of our brains rather than their physical training.

I often forget that I love horses for themselves and the riding came secondary and mostly because I needed to demonstrate I could make enough money to put food on the table to my horrified parents. Some said it's been very brave to stick at this profession. I actually think it's more cowardice because it's the only thing I know, it's the relationship that rewards me the most and that includes my relationship with myself.

Yearning to know a horse best and fullest through the riding because often it's the most intimate moment in the dynamic and relationship. On a side note, I believe that because I, as well as many others struggle with human relationships that the rider/horse dynamic is more enticing because it's not two humans. I struggle with humanity often, wondering about things I cannot affect. I can however effect my horses training. Approaching the training from a horse personality point of view leaves me no opening for how I’m going to signal or ask for something. With a perfectionist brain I often end up frozen in fear of making it worse.

At the beginning of every lesson I ask my riders, how has your horse been, this isn’t a cue to tell me how sharp or sassy or quirky he is but that they're lacking in confidence in something and that together we are going to explore what that is. Forcing the phrase my horse is lacking in confidence in shapes a whole new conversation in whether I correct my horse or help my horse. Once we’ve explored the underneath then we can throw around words, sometimes as I’m Irish, they’re often very colourful but everyones on the same page as to what we’re aiming to achieve.

In my first ever training session with Conrad Schumacher I worried I didn’t have enough experience as I didn’t know what he meant with a particular phrase. It turned out it was the same phrase my trainer used with a German accent. I’m getting better at asking, "what did you mean? “

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Susan Rothenberg, Chix, 2003

Arkel, the Netherlands - 2021

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