Spot-O-Faith Farm Inc.

23/01/2025

Incredible!
Didn’t know There Was A Possibility of White TB❣️

Rare Pure White Thoroughbred Racehorse SODASHI
Sodashi took the Victoria Mile at Tokyo racecourse in Japan. The unusual white horse defeated a strong field to set up a potential trip to the Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland
Fans went wild as rare 'unicorn' horse Sodashi stormed to victory in a £1.7 million race.
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22/01/2025

21/01/2025

Horses Have A Huge Heart💟

Recent studies conducted by the Institute of HeartMath provide a clue to explain the bidirectional "healing" that happens when we are near horses. According to researchers, the heart has a larger electromagnetic field and higher level of intelligence than the brain: A magnetometer can measure the heart's energy field radiating up to 8 to 10 feet around the human body. While this is certainly significant it is perhaps more impressive that the electromagnetic field projected by the horse's heart is five times larger than the human one (imagine a sphere-shaped field that completely surrounds you). The horse's electromagnetic field is also stronger than ours and can actually directly influence our own heart rhythm!
Horses are also likely to have what science has identified as a "coherent" heart rhythm (heart rate pattern) which explains why we may "feel better" when we are around them. . . .studies have found that a coherent heart pattern or HRV is a robust measure of well-being and consistent with emotional states of calm and joy--that is, we exhibit such patterns when we feel positive emotions.
A coherent heart pattern is indicative of a system that can recover and adjust to stressful situations very efficiently. Often times, we only need to be in a horses presence to feel a sense of wellness and peace. In fact, research shows that people experience many physiological benefits while interacting with horses, including lowered blood pressure and heart rate, increased levels of beta-endorphins (neurotransmitters that serve as pain surppressors), decreased stress levels, reduced feelings of anger, hostility, tension and anxiety, improved social functioning; and increased feelings of empowerment, trust, patience and self-efficacy."

21/11/2024

Bob Peters DVM

ATTENTION:
To all my horse friends, roping buddies, barrel racers, breakaway ropers, and clients.
This neurologic rhino outbreak is serious. Stay home till things are under control. There is now a 3rd property involved. There is a mix of western performance and english horses there. All horses and disciplines are at risk. There may not be a worse way for a horse to die than neurologic rhino.
Be safe, they can't get it if they aren't exposed.

PS To equine professionals that move between different barns. You can potentially spread this disease. You should be cleaning up and changing clothes between barns for a while.

14/11/2024

HOW A HORSE OWNER KNOWS THEY ARE RICH!!!
I am rich. I have couple hundred dollars in my checking account and an old gelding in the barn.
I am rich. I have a truck that works and enough diesel to get to the next trail ride.
I am rich. I have boxes of pasta and generic sauce in my pantry and enough hay to feed my horse through the winter.
I am rich. I have enough old coats and sweaters to layer up and stay warm while I do barn chores.
I am rich. I vacation by camping with my horses and going to cheer on my horse riding friends at horse shows. Sometimes I even play too, and spend $10 to bring home a fifty cent ribbon that I will treasure more than a photo in front of the Eiffel Tower.
I am rich. I have tools: duct tape and baling twine and a husband that knows how to fix just about anything with these tools.
I am rich. I find joy in making my own things, making do, and making right. I have a 10 year old saddle, a 60 ish year old body, and the wonder and joy of a 6 year old child learning that a horse can give her wings.
I am rich.
My wealth is not measured in dollar signs but in horsey snorts and nickers. My riches aren't spent on electronics and fancy clothes but are shared with my human and four footed friends.
Next time someone finds out that I have a horse and says, " You must be rich to afford that" I will smile, and agree.

23/10/2024

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.

27/06/2024

27/06/2024

With The 4th coming Soon, consider the Horses🐴 💥💙

25/12/2023

Merry Christmas 🎄
Wishing all our friends and family a beautiful & a Very Merry Christmas!

From Our Farm To Yours❣️🎄