I've been sad to see #Wedsneigh falling behind the posting times, so plan to do my part to try to resurrect! Was thinking today of these two long-gone Trakehner friends and how much they taught me. Khadija and newborn Karamel (x Amethyst) in 1999. RIP my beauties!
"Many people assume that horses first came to the Americas when Spanish explorers brought them here about 500 years ago. In fact, recent research has confirmed a European origin for horses associated with humans in the American Southwest and Great Plains."
@TheConversationUS reports: "The fossil record reveals horse origins here more than 50 million years ago, as well as their extinction throughout the Americas during the last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago."
From the archives: The rules of barrel racing, the only female-dominated rodeo sport, are simple. It’s the execution that’s hard. https://www.texasobserver.org/on-a-dime/
This comprehensive A-to-Z guide covers "everything horse" and bridges gaps in the equestrian universe between English and Western styles. More than 1,700 entries explain wide-ranging topics such as breeds, tack, facilities, equine care and management, health and safety issues, riding styles and disciplines, shows, and much more.
Okay, and the second book I'd published in The Pegasus Enchantment series is revised, updated with new pen name, and I have books three and four hopefully to do before the end of the month.
This is the prequel series to my young adult work, and I am loving getting this back out there and going.
A rider goes through flames during the annual "Luminarias" celebration on the eve of Saint Anthony's day, Spain's patron saint of animals, in the village of San Bartolome de Pinares, northwest of Madrid, Spain. REUTERS/Juan Medina
"The authors present new archaeological discoveries from western and northern Mongolia, dating to the fourth and fifth centuries AD, including a wooden frame saddle with horse hide components from Urd Ulaan Uneet and an iron stirrup from Khukh Nuur. Together, these finds suggest that Mongolian groups were early adopters of stirrups and saddles, facilitating the expansion of nomadic hegemony across Eurasia and shaping the conduct of medieval mounted warfare."
The Tale of the Horse: A History of India on Horseback
Yashaswini Chandra
The horse is etched on the Indian landscape, and to view the subcontinent’s past through the prism of the horse is to be swept up in its power and grace. Horses are a thread that connects Indian history, mythology, art, literature, folklore and popular belief.
Konik horses sparring at the National Trust’s Wicken Fen nature reserve in Cambridgeshire, UK. A Polish breed, Koniks are descended from the wild European horses that roamed the UK’s forests and were hunted to extinction in the Stone Age.
Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA