[hipparchicus]

i know its been A While since i've posted here but it's not like it matters. i don't have horse friends to talk to so it's gonna go on this dumb blog.

i just want to cry.

i reached out to a reining/ranch/trail coach and haven't heard back after stating i half-lease at a barn closer to me. figures. honestly what does it matter if i'm willing to drive 4 hours round trip and pay your lesson fees if i have a half-lease? sorry for not giving specifics in a fb message? you wanna know my life story to determine if i'm worthy enough to pay you whatever for an hour lesson? fuck.

and then -

everybody at my barn wonders about me. "where's carson?" but then they never invite me on a trail ride or to a show or anything. i was asked if i want to go to a show in two months only because i liked somebody's post when they tagged other people. but frankly i know it's because i don't own my own horse that i'm not invited. it's not as if the barn owner lets me have my pick of whatever horse i want to ride at this point because i'm not scared of their antics, so it's not like i'm unavailable because i don't have a horse. it's not like i've worked there and known each horse's little quirks for feeding, being led or turned out, where they prefer to shit and piss in their stalls. not like i rode for IHSA where i had to figure a horse out in a couple minutes before being judged. but sure, i don't own, why include me.

and even if i was included - my half-lease can't be neck reined like my barn owner claims. why the fuck did she train him like she did? who the fuck neck reins by putting pressure on the middle and expecting the horse to turn into it? literally what the fuck. i had a better ride on the english saddlebred than my half lease and i haven't ridden english in forever but at least he knows what the fuck moving off pressure is. fuck.

so i was invited to this show and while i'd like to show my half-lease, who knows. i can't show him two-handed in western because he's thirteen and over the age limit so idk i guess i could just take him and do showmanship and cry in his stall because i can't steer him by neck reining. there's just so much else going into this and i'm just so defeated.

[hauntedhookah]

Armenian medical manuscript on Horse Healing 13th century

[annaxmalina]

{2025} somewhere in between

[hipparchicus]

had my last two lessons cancelled... one due to weather, one because my instructor has a second job interview. my lesson on saturday will probably be cancelled too because of weather.

i'm really upset because i finally have my debt paid off, and i'm saving for a horse of my own, and i have money to afford twice weekly lessons after months of being unable to... but my schedule is limited because of my job and idk i was just really looking forward to riding. :(

i need to ask the barn owner about potentially leasing again. just for more barn time, even if it isn't a lesson

[vintageeveryday]

The most famous Beale’s cut stunt: Did Tom Mix jump over the cut on a horse in “Three Jumps Ahead”? Here’s the story…

[hippography]

TONKIN — Hanoï - Mandarin et son cheval caparaçonné

Delcampe

[mostly-history]

Japanese abumi (stirrups), inscribed by Sanemitsu (probably 1700s).

These stirrups are completely covered with finely-inlaid silver decoration.  Their designs include Chinese lions, peonies, and a waterfall flowing into a brook.  The form of these stirrups is traditionally known as hato mune (pigeon breast), and they are the only known pair of stirrups to use a technique of raised silver dots to highlight and accentuate the decoration.  They were made in Kashu (modern-day Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture), probably under the patronage of the Maeda clan.  This was a Japanese samurai clan who ruled most of the Hokuriku region of central Honshū, and were one of the most powerful Japanese families at the time.

[historyfan]

Men of an Imperial German Uhlan Regiment apply dye to a grey horse to make it appear darker for camouflage. On the Entente Powers side, men of the Scots Greys also took the same action.

[journeymancreativejournal]

Knight - Leg Armor Detail, Metropolitan Museum of Art

[horsesarecreatures]

Buttero riding a Maremmano horse and driving a Maremmano bull.

[dreaming-of-spots]

My sister just sent me this article- I thought it was pretty neat!

[black-thoroughbred]

So many people are quick to say behavioural issues are the horse "trying to get out of work" but never take it a step further and ask why the horse feels it needs to get out of work in the first place.

[benjaminforman]

[blue-nebraska]

cowboy kisses

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell 

First Edition 1915 with illustration by Lucy Kemp Welch

[hipparchicus]

forever wishing i had pursued horseback riding more as a kid because i keep seeing all these cool equestrian teams at colleges and idk i would have loved that.

anyway i quit my school’s equestrian team and my stablehand position there. not worth it.

[erlkingssarchive]

just saw an x-ray of a horse skull. can’t say i’m too happy with it

[erlkingssarchive]

what the FUCK is this

[beardless-bearded-vulture]

Fun fact: horses' teeth take up more space in their skulls than their brains!

[keeperofthehens]

Horses: eating is more important than thinking

Anyone whose ever interacted with a horse: sounds about right

[followthebluebell]

They have a section of their brain entirely devoted to finding new and unique ways of killing themselves.

That section is the entirety of their brain and is known as the Bastard Lobe.

[lilycolon3]

horses really built like ppl draw spamton