Coopers Creek

24/07/2024

24/07/2024

Man O'WAR ❤
If there’s a better name for a racehorse than Man o’ War, we haven’t heard it yet. With that kind of moniker, the Lexington-born Thoroughbred was all but destined to the greatness he would go on to achieve in just two short years of racing. From his first start on June 6, 1919, Man o’ War captured the hearts of the American people in the early postwar years, rivaling even Babe Ruth in popularity. He won twenty of twenty-one races—including one by an unheard-of hundred lengths—and brought international attention to Kentucky breeders, securing the Bluegrass State’s elite place in the racing world.

24/07/2024

Congratulations to Libby of the Northumbrian Mounted Archers on achieving your Club Horseback Archer qualification! 🤩

23/07/2024

George Morris in action – winning the Grand Prix of Aachen on Night Owl in 1960

23/07/2024

23/07/2024

We are going to Paris! 🥰🇫🇷🙏🏼

23/07/2024

That's a fact 💯

23/07/2024

23/07/2024

The 400-Year-Anniversary Performance in the Schönbrunn Palace Performances and "Wiener Stadthalle" under the Direction of Colonel Hans Handler. 1972

22/07/2024

Seabiscuit pulls ahead of War Admiral at the 1938 Pimlico Special. - Getty Images

19/07/2024

John Whitaker and his Fantastic Milton

19/07/2024

https://www.facebook.com/cowboyup213 🇺🇸🇨🇦

19/07/2024

That always happens to us 😅
credits: Manna Pro Horse

19/07/2024

19/07/2024

John Whitaker and the great Milton, Lovely Photo

19/07/2024

Milton & John Whitaker reading together

16/07/2024

Seriously!! 🤣🤣🤣

16/07/2024

I was asked to post this by Paul Fitzsimmons

If you’re in Saratoga next Saturday, July 20, please consider joining us for these events, which celebrate the 150th birthday of Hall of Fame Trainer “Sunny Jim” Fitzsimmons.

He trained Gallant Fox, Omaha, Johnstown, Granville, Seabiscuit, Nashua, Bold Ruler and many more throughout his 75-year career. I am his great-great grandson.

In 2012, our family launched “Sunny Jim” Fitzsimmons Racing syndicate to honor his legacy, which you can follow at on Instagram.

The Museum event is free of charge.

16/07/2024

16/07/2024

16/07/2024

Story Update
80-year-old woman completes annual 600-mile trek with her pony and dog

Every year, Jane Dotchin packs her saddlebags and sets off on an epic journey from her home near Hexham, Northumberland, up to Inverness, Scotland.

Since 1972, Jane, 80, has been heading on this annual trip on her 13-year-old horse, Diamond, travelling 600 miles on horseback.
This time, she began her journey on August 31, with her disabled Jack Russell, Dinky, for company as she covers between 15 and 20 miles a day.

The trip sees Jane carrying everything she needs on her back, including her tent, food, and a few key belongings.
After that initial journey, she caught the taste for the open road, and travelled to visit friends near Fort Augustus, near Loch Ness, Highlands, every autumn since.

Her epic journey usually takes around seven weeks, depending on weather, and Jane uses it as a chance to pop in and say hi to people she has met over the years.

She sustains herself on porridge, oatcakes, and cheese, and doesn’t need much electricity as she has an old mobile phone with a battery that lasts six weeks.

Full Storey of his Journey in Comment Below

13/07/2024

How much weight can a horse carry?

In my experience, a horse can carry an infinite amount.

They can carry the weight of broken hearts, broken homes, and broken bodies. Countless tears sometimes comb their tangled manes. Moments when parents and friends cannot be there to help and hold a person, horses embrace and empower. They carry physical, mental, and emotional handicaps. They carry hopes and dreams; and they will carry the stress from your day when you can’t carry it anymore.

They carry graduations, they carry new careers, they carry moves away from everything familiar, they carry marriages, they carry divorces, they carry funerals, they carry babies before they are born, and sometimes they carry the mothers who cannot carry their own baby. They carry mistakes, they carry joy, they carry the good and they carry the bad. They carry drugs and addictions, but they also carry the celebrations.

They will carry you to success when all you have felt is failure. They will carry you, never knowing the weight of your burdens and triumphs.

If you let them, they will carry you through life, and life is hard, life is heavy. But a horse will make you feel weightless under it all.

10/07/2024

10/07/2024

Robert Redford - The Horse Whisperer