TS Equine

20/10/2024

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02/09/2024

Someone people say I trust my horse to much, I don’t know why. 🐴🐴

17/08/2024

Genuinely don’t think I could ask for a better review! Thank you for trusting us with your pony🐴🐴

17/08/2024

That’s Monty delivered home to very happy owner, he’s been with us for 6/7 weeks! Had to take Samson to get us back home he wasn’t very happy about being brought in from the field🐴 🐴

13/08/2024

Ground work, ground work and more ground work makes a very good first time on the road in the cart!!
Incredibly happy with this pony, he’s sharp as they come but will make a very nice driving pony🐴🤩

11/08/2024

07/08/2024

Another pony of mine lost to the kids 🐴❤️

05/08/2024

05/08/2024

Both back legs up with no hassle! She usually kicks me a few times first🐴

Patience and hard work (and a few painful kicks later!) pays off! 🐴🥰

05/08/2024

Love this 🥰 and so true

Make Them Carry Their Saddle

A father of a darling girl and I were talking last week and he said that he wanted his daughter to ride more and not have to do the work part of the catching, grooming, and saddling. I smiled as I explained.

Riding horses is a combination of strength, timing, and balance. Kids in this country are physically weak (unless they are actively involved with weight training and physical conditioning 4+ times a week.)

When you walk out to the field, you are clearing your stress from being under fluorescent lights all day; feeling the sun soak into your bones. As your body moves on uneven surfaces, it strengthens your legs and core.

When you groom your horse (especially currying), you are toning your arms and stabilizing your core.

When you carry your saddle, your arms, chest, and back are doing isolated strengthening work.

Being near horses, calms and makes you tune into the splendor of these empathetic animals.

When you ride at a posting trot, it’s equivalent to a slow jog calorie burn wise.

After a lesson, the riders are physically tired and mentally quiet and balanced.

Horses feel your heart beat and mirror your emotions back.

Riding large and somewhat unpredictable animals makes you resilient and pushes your expectations.

Working with horses is so much more than learning how to ride.

So parents, make your children carry their saddles. Don’t do the hard parts for them, as long term it actually hurts them. To advance with their riding, they must get stronger. You can help by doing the high parts.

I love having you all at the farm, and am so grateful to get to share these fascinating animals with you.

Hannah Campbell Zapletal

29/07/2024

With the weather we are having it would be wrong not to bath the ponies! Other four will be done tomorrow 🐴🐴

27/07/2024

Treated ourselves to a day away at a heavy horse music festival, spent about ten minutes watching the music, and about three hours with the Suffolk punches! There incredible and has definitely cemented the idea of owning one, one day soon!

25/07/2024

This is actually a lot harder than I make it look 😂🐴

25/07/2024

"We must never forget, every time we sit on a horse, what an extraordinary privilege it is: to be able to unite one's body with that of another sentient being, one that is stronger, faster and more agile by far than we are, and at the same time, brave, generous, and uncommonly forgiving." William Steinkraus, Olympic Gold Medalist

24/07/2024

Food for thought!!

A small stab in the heart is what you feel when you put up the day's riding list and you see riders sinking heavily in their shoulders when reading which horse they are assigned for the lesson. A small stab in the heart for that horse that for an hour will carry around a rider who has already decided that he does not like his horse. A small stab in the heart for the horse that did not choose the rider himself but still does his best, lesson after lesson.

Riding is a privilege and something you have chosen to do. If you chose to ride at a riding school, your instructor assumes that you actually want to learn how to ride. The instructor's highest wish is that you get good at it.

Often there is a plan and a thought as to why you are assigned to that exact horse. Before you mount up next time, ask yourself "what can this horse teach me today?" All horses have something to give, a feeling or a new tool in the box.

The art is actually in being able to get a lazy horse to move forward, to get an uncertain horse to gain confidence, a naughty horse to focus or a tense horse to be released. It takes work. If you think a horse is boring, it's more likely that you don't ride the horse as well as you think! It's not easy to be confronted with your own shortcomings, but it is in that very situation that you get the chance to truly grow as a rider.

The excuse that "it's not my kind of horse" is actually a really bad excuse. A good rider can ride any kind of horse. A good rider has trained many hours on different types of horses to become a good rider. A good rider can find and manage the gold nuggets in every horse.

If we absolutely want to ride, it is our duty to strive to do it as best as possible, even if it's only for fun. We owe it to every horse that carries us upon it's back.

Copied and shared with love for all of our horses, ponies and riders 🐎❤🐎

15/07/2024

Ivy be driving soon 🐴👌

08/07/2024

Scrubs up well does sonshine 🐴🐴

07/07/2024

Bath time for Monty while the weather is hottish 🐴❤️