06/22/2024
HORSE WHORLS GUIDE by Noche Miller:
Whorls is a time-honored method of judging a horse’s temperament & personality.
As superstition, there is science to back it up. Hair & brain are formed from the same fetal cell layer. Because they form at the same it makes sense that as a fetus develops the hair growing over the brain, & body, can shows signs of what is going on underneath.
If it’s HIGH, above eye level, the horse will be very smart, energetic, & outgoing.
To the RIGHT, our left as we face them, shows a right brained horse, reactive, emotional, nervous, defensive.
BELOW EYE LEVEL should be an introvert, sometimes considered lazy or stubborn they are smart, easily bored, & can be distrustful.
A whorl on the LEFT SIDE IF THE FACE, again our left, means a left-brain horse. One who is confident & willful. The farther a whorl is from center the more pronounced the effect will be.
In the CENTER is the most common and doesn’t tell us a whole lot. With that type of whorl we need to look at the shape of the head, ear, eyes, all the other clues we are given.
When we get 2 or more whorls it gets more complicated. They can show tendencies from 2 different brain types. Whorls that are stacked, 1 above the other, show a horse that is an introvert & an extrovert.
Side by side whorls will be right brain, reactive & hot, as well as left brain, unreactive and confident.
Charlotte Cannon in Swirlology, says that “Many Grand Prix horses, dressage, jumping & eventers have high, side-by-side double swirls. These double swirls seems to give the ability to hyper focus. These horses are challenging & gritty & not back down from a challenge.
The side-by-side swirls give horses access to both sides of its brain in a flash, ‘wickedly fast thinker’ is a description often given to them.”
