Durchlaessigkeit

noun :: The supple, elastic, unblocked, connected state of the horse's musculature that permits an unrestricted flow of energy from back to front and front to back, which allows the aids/influences to freely go through to all parts of the horse

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DUKE at the frontdoor

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Source: Stallioncuzzo

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Ronja

My sisters mare who is now living with Mario :)

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Longines Global Champions Tour of St Tropez 2018 Bertram Allen& Gin Chin van het Lindenhof

©GCL/Stefano Grasso; source: Global Champions League on Facebook

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Crown Gold and Glossy

[Steendieks Champ of Glory x Golden Dornika B/Gershwin B] 2012 German Riding Pony mare

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Gio 🔥

[scarlettjane22]

Summer bloom with Lebrero la bodega. Gelding owned by Zandra Idenius Stockholm - Sweden 2015 © Emmy Eriksson www.emeriphoto.com Instagram: Emeriphotography

[theclassicalhorse]

It’s frequently said that horses fake lameness to get out of work. Or that they spook to annoy their riders. But horses simply do not have the cognitive capacity to plot and scheme in this manner. They are no more able to mentally plot and scheme than we are able to flap our arms and fly. They lack the cognitive ability as much as we lack the physical ability. Plotting, scheming and devising are all easily accomplished by human brains. The cognitive qualities that allow us to do this are the same that allow us to project those abilities onto the horse. But that still doesn’t make it true, or possible. If a horse acts lame, they are lame. If a horse spooks at something, it is because they have been startled. Neither are occurring because the horse has devised a plan to get out of work. While horses are very intelligent animals, they have not evolved with the ability to plot and scheme as we have. Horses are intelligent in ways that are very specific to them as a species, just as we are, and our brains have evolved for different purposes. Let’s use our brains for good, fellow horse people, and not for projecting such abilities onto the horse. Use your brain to help bust this silly and harmful myth next time you hear it spouted.

Lauren Fraser

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This fills my soul with peace

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© Angeliki Hristoff

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CERTERO BOT

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Orchard’s Boginov

[Verona’s Bo-Gi x Orchard Perestrojka/Vita Nova’s Golden Boris] 2000 Dutch Riding Pony stallion

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‘Silencios que hacen ruido’