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Image 1: Native American rock carvings in the form of repeated circular indentations on a large boulder.
Image 2: Spot the lizard :)
HORSE DAGGER
Sources: dagger, dagger and sheath
When we assume all social media managers are interns we systematically devalue their work and deflate their wages, especially in industries seen as “desirable” to work in with their associated pay cuts due to the presumed ease of replacing the person in the role in this essay I will
(Also if you assume everything is an intern going off piste you ignore the very real ways they are manipulating you because haha funny. Anyway)
snapshot from one of Oscar’s memorial paintings i did last year!
”Gestural 423” 24 x 18 inch ink and acrylic on paper.
Available here or on my website.
#painting #paintings #horses #equestrian
https://www.equineartiststevemessenger.com
I am an equestrian artist at equineartiststevemessenger.com I do commission work and sell my art. I have been featured in The Chronicle of t
Graffiti in Budapest, February 2026
Happy year of the horse, have a little soda-fired horse stampede
I’ve scored a lovely find on eBay - a formerly customised “Newsworthy” model for about £20.
Newsworthy, for whom the mould was designed, was a Welsh Pony/Thoroughbred. I love his pose, and specifically wanted to collect this model. I think this is the Connemara ‘Best of British’ Hunter Pony variant.
A previous customiser made some changes, notably adding feathering to his legs! Now he evokes to me a different class of Welsh Pony or a light Welsh Cob (do NOT attempt to categorise these further, it’s best left to experts.) They also painted on some markings and moulded a different mane and tail. he’s been sealed with a finish that’s aged with some minor problems - it appears to be a varnish, rather than an expensive model sealer. It’s gone a bit sticky with age. There’s some spillover spray of yellowed sealer or varnish on his stand.
The moulding is good, and the mane and tail genuinely confused me - but the visible brushstrokes on the sock and blaze, and the spillover of the varnish, suggest a slightly amateurish hand. This feels to me like a specific beloved pony was immortalised here by its own fond owner.
The eBay seller was a later collector and didn’t know.
Now, the reason I wanted to collect a Newsworthy was quite specific. I wanted to repaint this mold into a horse OC, an Irish Hobby mare. The pose and conformation are absolutely perfect. (The Irish Hobby is an extinct breed, considered a relative of the Connemara, Kerry Bog Pony and Thoroughbred.)
A nice new paint job and some gender-aligning modelling will make a lovely Irish Hobby…
But on this specific Newsworthy, there are feathers.
Irish Hobbies didn’t have feathers, and neither do their descendants. That’s a dremel job. Especially if I ever intend to show the piece in competitive model horse shows, which, I shit you not, require documentation of alignment to intended breed.
But … the feathering added by the hand of another human, immortalising a beloved friend…
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Maybe he’ll just get a strip down and repaint, and live in the collection as a random pony.
Oh well; it was never a cheap hobby.
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Jody Potts-Joseph’s dogs at Iditarod start in traditional beaded Athabaskan dog jackets. Jody is also an environmentalist, tattoo artist, and mother to supermodel Quannah Chasinghorse.
You can follow Jody and the other mushers here.
Why are there approximately two vaguely affordable electric sedan options on the American market. Why is there such an American obsession with SUVs.
They put in shifted schedules at work (pros: I get home at five now, shorter commutes; cons: waking up at 5 am) and it messed up carpooling for a bit but finally we are all on the same shift and can resume driving together!
Horse breed of the day: Stationbred
Height: 15-17hh
Common coat colors: Bay, grey, black and chestnut
Place of Origin: New Zealand
!!!!AYO KIWI SPECIFIC THING MENTIONED!!!!
Stationbreds are horses bred on high country stations for the purpose of being good minded, hardy, athletic, sure-footed and versatile mounts suitable for mustering sheep or beef, hunters, eventers, and safe fun allrounders for the whole family to enjoy. They’re typically first draft crosses (almost always a purebred Clydesdale or shire stallion) over more refined and hot blooded mares to produce a heavier, stockier horse with substantial bone that’s a comfy ride with a sensible brain, but still keeping the get-up-and-go/go all day eagerness and engine of lighter “bloodier” horses like thoroughbreds, warmbloods, arabs, etc., thought they aren’t limited to just those breeds - many stations include standardbred (gaited stations are often called “amblers”), gypsy cob, welsh cob, and stock/quarter horse lines! These horses are typically raised untouched/unhandled and left to grow up wild in the steep high country terrain which gives them the surefootedness and hardiness the breed is so well known for, with most being brought in for handling and breaking in their 3 and 4yo years.
Stationbreds across NZ are incredibly successful at all levels of the sport and growing in popularity overseas too - at the last biannual St James Station sale in 2025, buyers from NZ and Australia snapped up all 30 lots on offer for a total profit of $180,000NZD, with the top lot (an untouched grey 3yo filly) selling for $12,100NZD.
A small selection of the many stations known for producing our incredible horses-
St James Station, Hanmer Springs (South Island) - my grandad mustered St James when it was still just a sheep station and my family has been to multiple of their sales, so it’s a bit of a home hero for me 🙈 The Stevenson family owned the station from 1927-2009 and began their horse breeding journey with 4 stallions - an imported in-utero Clydesdale (grandad said they called him Wiley after the fella who bought him) a thoroughbred, a pony, and a hack, which were all turned out with their own band of mares to produce the next generation of musterers. From there the four types amalgamated into what’s known as the St James horses today, surefooted mares descended from the original four studs with a half-clydie herd sire to produce the next generations
St James was sold to the government in 2009 as a heritage site where DOC took over the management of the land, but family still controls the feral horses contained in the Ada Valley and surround. Because of careful DOC management the station available to the public for tramping, camping, hiking and BYO horse trekking with designated trails and camping huts all over the station (seriously worth going out for a couple nights if you’re in the area!!)
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Hangaroa Landcruisers, Tiniroto (North Island) - along with breeding stationbreds, Hangaroa also owns what was originally the only fully licensed purebred Cleveland Bay stallion in the southern hemisphere, Texlea St Oliver, who was imported to New Zealand in 2022. Many of their stationbred mares and foals have Cleveland Bay blood in them, though Oliver retired from breeding duties in 2024 at the ripe old age of 20.
They continue the Cleveland Bay breeding with their new stud Rocky (Bridlington Farm Saltaire) and hopefully their stations keep that blood in them for a long time coming! 🤞
Top: Texlea St Oliver, bottom: Bridlington Farm Saltaire
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Muzzle Station, Kaikōura (South Island)
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Billy Maaka Horses, Mangatu (North Island)
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Blue Mountain Station, Fairlie (South Island)
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And of course she doesn’t come from a station but I can’t talk about stationbreds without mentioning my own Ouruhia Gem 🤭 Her grandsire is the incredible stationbred stallion Kaha Warrior who bred many GP/Pony GP show jumpers as well as being a PGP winner himself!
Nils Kreuger (Swedish, 1858-1930), Ett gammalt sto [An Old Mare], 1909, Oil on canvas, 184 x 221 cm. Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
坂本 花織 Kaori Sakamoto (JPN)
2026 Olympic Winter Games Exhibition Gala (A Million Dreams)