Blue Dome Equestrian

01/16/2025

Bitless dressage allowed and nosebands and double bridles optional in new Danish rules

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01/02/2025

12/31/2024

Wishing you all a very happy new year!

12/24/2024

Happy Hanukkah 🕎 and Merry Christmas 🎄
With lots of love ❤️ the ponies!

11/28/2024

𝐁𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞, 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 💙

𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨? Hi-vis is always recommended when riding, even if you are riding off-road or there is clear visibility – hacking out at night or in poor visibility is not recommended. Wearing Hi-vis allows you to be seen sooner by cyclists and walkers, and low flying aircraft pilots can spot you up to half a mile sooner if you and your horse are wearing hi-vis – such as a quarter sheet.

Hi-vis should be environment appropriate, think about the background you will be riding against – e.g orange hi-vis will not stand out as well against autumn leaves as pink, yellow won’t stand out as well amongst a field of rapeseed.

11/27/2024

Thank you to all who purchased our pony club handmade horsehead wreaths this year to support our annual camp! Please save the frames and return them for a discount next year!

11/27/2024

Wishing you all a peaceful Thanksgiving!

11/19/2024

Two Horses in a Landscape, 1635-1683. Artist : Nicolaes Berchem

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1 October 1620 – 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.

He was a member of the second generation of "Dutch Italianate landscape" painters. These were artists who travelled to Italy, or aspired to, in order to soak up the romanticism of the country, bringing home sketchbooks full of drawings of classical ruins and pastoral imagery.

His paintings, of which he produced an immense number, (Hofstede de Groot claimed around 850, although many are misattributed), were in great demand, as were his 80 etchings and 500 drawings. His landscapes, painted in the Italian style of idealized rural scenes, with hills, mountains, cliffs and trees in a golden dawn are sought after. Berchem also painted inspired and attractive human and animal figures (staffage) in works of other artists, like Allaert van Everdingen, Jan Hackaert, Gerrit Dou, Meindert Hobbema and Willem Schellinks.