Horses of Zachanox

11/07/2025

SUMMER SALE is here!!!
Enjoy 40% OFF the 170-series 💜💛🩷
Plus lots of other great discounts!
Visit our shop and get fresh inspiration for your arena sessions TODAY: https://zachanox.com/webshop/

14/06/2025

02/06/2025

Today is Tiger’s birthday — 26 years old! 🎉
The first photo is brand new, the last one is from when she was a foal, and in between there’s a little photo cavalcade from our 25 years together 🥰
Most of them are from 2002–2006 — I went digging through old folders 😅

We celebrated her birthday with a dandelion feast 🍃 and some scratching on the inside of her thighs 🤪

02/06/2025

Here it is! The New Launch: GROUNDWORK & LIBERTY - 170 Exercises From Basics To Advanced

💛 Introducing Voice Commands
🧡 In-Hand Work
💛 How to Start with Liberty
🧡 Body Language & Positions
💛 Energy Communication
🧡 Moving Your Horse Away from You
💛 Moving Your Horse Towards You
🧡 Suppleness & Strength
💛 Lateral Work
🧡 Lunging & Loose Lunging
💛 Recall
🧡 Changes of Pace
💛 Halt on a Precise Spot
🧡 Sending the Horse Over Poles
💛 Sending the Horse Between Poles
🧡 Shortening and Lengthening Strides
💛 Technical Obstacles
🧡 Back-through Obstacles
💛 Cone Patterns
🧡 Vary Your Cavaletti Training..and more!

25/05/2025

🐴 Big Sale Ending Soon! Up to 50% OFF 💛🧡
🤩 Over 470 Exercises to Level up Your Riding!
✨ Perfect for all disciplines and types of horses/ponies
🌎 Loved by riders in over 100 countries

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19/05/2025

Hip hip hooray, today is Jeni’s birthday! 🥰🥳
He came to me just weaned, only 7 months old. Today he turns 19.

On paper his name is Intelligence, and when I was trying to come up with a good nickname, I settled on Jeni, inspired by figure skater Evgeni Plushenko, who has always been my favorite.

I wasn’t looking for another horse at all. I had just moved my entire business 400 kilometers, bringing around 10 horses with me and was completely occupied with setting everything up in a new place. But I was flipping through a horse magazine, and there he was — a little c**t in the classifieds. The feeling was so clear and strong.
“That is my horse.”

He loves being creative with me and coming up with new exercises and games. Not for the exercises themselves, but as a tool to explore and develop what We are. It must never become monotonous or driven by a purpose that he doesn’t feel aligns with our shared vision.
Every time I look into his eyes, it’s as if I’m in direct contact with something infinitely vast and powerful — like an entire galaxy channeled through a horse.
Of all the horses I’ve met over the years, he is still the one who fascinates me the most.

Photo 1: 8 years old
Photo 2: 9 years old
Photo 3: 4 years old
Photos 4–5: 10 years old
Photo 6: First day with me and “stepdad” Kenzo
Photo 7: Baby with mom Sunshine Zippo, breeder’s photo.

16/05/2025

(Instructions for the exercise are at the bottom of the post.)

IT’S HERE!
Today is release day for my latest creation:
FUN & FOCUS with CONES – 42 RIDING EXERCISES ✨

💚 A huge THANK YOU to everyone who pre-ordered! Judging by the interest, this is clearly a theme of exercises that’s been missing from the market!
We’re currently working on activating the product on everyone’s account, but it will take a couple of days to process all orders. We’re working through the weekend to get it done for you! 🙏

⚠️ If you haven’t ordered it yet, the intro price is valid through Sunday—so grab your copy now before it slips your mind 😉
Order here: https://zachanox.com/product/printable-e-book-fun-focus-with-cones/

---EXERCISE---

Orange line = walk
Blue line = trot
Green line = canter

Set up 12 cones as shown in the illustration, with about 6–8 meters (20–26 ft) between each cone. Place the formation about 4–5 meters (13–16 ft) in from the arena fence (adjust based on your arena size).

The illustration shows transitions on the right rein.
Start anywhere in the arena and walk one cone interval (the distance between two cones). Then trot for two intervals, and canter for three. Transition back to walk and repeat.
Be sure to ride each transition precisely at a cone.

For an easier version, you can set up the intervals so that you pick up canter at the second cone on the long side. This places the downward transition to walk in the corner before the short side.
It may also be easier to reverse the order: pick up canter from walk, then transition from canter to trot.

This exercise improves your transition accuracy and the timing of your aids.
You’ll also practice following a pattern, counting how many cones you’ve passed, and planning ahead for the next transition.

13/05/2025

An incredible 25 years ago, I signed the purchase agreement for an almost 1-year-old Tiger.
May 13, 2000. I was 16 years old. SIXTEEN!!!
And so much has happened since then.

I did everything myself—started her under saddle and continued to explore different disciplines of riding together with her. She does high school dressage as well as reining moves and trail. Jumps like a cat. We've competed in the Swedish Championships in several western disciplines, done clinics, trick training…

But all of that is just fluff, the extra sprinkles on top.
The only thing that truly matters is that it’s Us—and that it’s always been Us.
The way she ended up with me in the first place was a well-guided miracle, which I’ll share in a future post. 🥰

Photo 1: 1.5 yr
Photo 2: 3 yr
Photo 3: Swedish Championship qualifier, 8 yr
Photo 4: 16 yr
Photo 5: 20 yr

09/05/2025

💥 NEW RELEASE!!! Do you sometimes feel like your everyday schooling in the arena gets a bit boring?
Is it hard to come up with interesting, improving, fun, and just-right challenging dressage sessions?

⭐️ Then this is your new goldmine!

Launching next Friday – and available for pre-order now in the shop.🧡💚

https://zachanox.com/product/printable-e-book-fun-focus-with-cones/

Special price this weekend only! 😘

04/05/2025

Sometimes I get greedy for words. I love it when beautiful sentences come rolling in, floating in a constant flow. I write and write. I jot down everything that comes, without thinking. It flows straight through my heart out to the hand, only brushing the mind briefly as it passes.

Afterward, I don’t know what I’ve written. It’s like waking from a dream and remembering fragments of it. But unlike a dream, this one now exists in physical form—the words on the paper.

I often turn to the horses for inspiration and channeling. The words are human, but the meaning they interpret and communicate is universal.

Those days when no words come can feel frustrating. I listen, I tune in, but no message arrives. It’s completely wordless.

I look into his eyes. I wait.
He looks back. Waits.

We might spend a whole evening together like this.
One waiting for a message to arrive.
The other waiting for the message to be understood for what it is. Because it’s already there. It’s always there. The wordless.

We breathe together. Create movements together. Laugh and play together.
And what is spoken between us then is always so much deeper and greater than anything I could ever translate into words.

💛🧡 Lina Zachanox