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01/02/2025

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10/29/2024

This article explains so much about horses and why some are the way they are!

Thought provoking!

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A thought-provoking read.
By Jane Smiley

Most horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient and forgiving, others are rigorous and demanding, others are cruel, others are ignorant.

Horses have to learn how to, at the minimum, walk, trot, canter, gallop, go on trails and maybe jump, to be treated by the vet, all with sense and good manners.

Talented Thoroughbreds must learn how to win races, and if they can't do that, they must learn how to negotiate courses and jump over strange obstacles without touching them, or do complicated dance like movements or control cattle or accommodate severely handicapped children and adults in therapy work.

Many horses learn all of these things in the course of a single lifetime. Besides this, they learn to understand and fit into the successive social systems of other horses they meet along the way.

A horse's life is rather like twenty years in foster care, or in and out of prison, while at the same time changing schools over and over and discovering that not only do the other students already have their own social groups, but that what you learned at the old school hasn't much application at the new one.

We do not require as much of any other species, including humans.

That horses frequently excel, that they exceed the expectations of their owners and trainers in such circumstances, is as much a testament to their intelligence and adaptability as to their relationship skills or their natural generosity or their inborn nature. That they sometimes manifest the same symptoms as abandoned orphans - distress, strange behaviors, anger, fear - is less surprising than that they usually don't.

No one expects a child, or even a dog to develop its intellectual capacities living in a box 23 hours a day and then doing controlled exercises the remaining one.

Mammal minds develop through social interaction and stimulation.

A horse that seems "stupid", "slow", "stubborn", etc. might just have not gotten the chance to learn!

Take care of your horses and treasure them.

10/21/2024

Love that last line😂😂😂

10/18/2024

Going first at an indoor final might intimidate some riders, but amateur jumper rider Tinita Hughes prefers it. The 70-year-old rider and her longtime partner, 17-year-old Hanoverian mare Proximo, kept their cool as they headed into the 1.10-meter NAL Amateur Jumper Welcome speed class Oct. 2 at the...

06/26/2024

Should be a great Olympics!

The U.S. Equestrian Federation announced the four athlete-and-horse combinations selected to represent the United States at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. The dressage competition will begin on July 30 and continue through Aug. 4 at the equestrian grounds of Versailles.

06/22/2024

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05/28/2024

Our summer Horse Camp is filling up! Small group to ensure lots of individual attention. Dm/text me for more info.

05/10/2024

HM Farms Riding School is once again offering our popular summer horse camp! Small group size each session ensure each camper gets lots of personal attention.

Text/DM for more details and to sign up. Spaces full very quickly.