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“Above the crucifix I bent my head: The Christ was thin, and cold, and very dead: And yet I bowed, yea, kissed—my lips did cling. (I kissed the warm live hand that held the thing.)”

— Wilfred Owen, excerpt of “Maundy Thursday”, in The Penguin Book of English Verse

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ideas I’m tired of

you need to show/be competitive to be a Real Rider

your significant other must be an equestrian/horse lover/go with you to the barn every day

the adoration and elevation of male riders

you must train This Way and if you don’t you’re Wrong

hurting horses for “results”

not taking injuries seriously (especially with rehab)

if you’re not at the barn every day you’re not a Real Rider

you can have a career in horses as long as you work hard enough

all horse people are CRAZY (and the derivative, all X discipline or breeds or whatever are crazy… maybe I don’t like generalizations)

horses must be worked or have a Job to be happy and well taken care of

2- and 3- year olds in heavy work

you must be Perfect at all times and know Everything about horses

just a short list. discuss, add, whatever.

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Furst Impression

Furst Heinrich x Roxana

Hanoverian, Stallion

16.2hh

Born 2003

subreus

he’s like a different horse his summer and winter coats are so different

ratrifle

lgbt equestrian icons/backgrounds!

only the ones with the outlines are sized to be icons, sorry!

feel free to use, just credit me @sircco !

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Rosay

Mule, Mare

Born 1983

a-horse-a-day

A REAL thing a girl at my barn in Italy asked me

“What is the competition you do with the fat horses and without a saddle pad? I do not understand”

Um she was talking about hunters and I nearly died laughing

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Bold Minstrel

Bold And Bad x Wallise Simpson

Thoroughbred Cross, Gelding

16.3hh

Born 1952

darkbayswarmdays

turn your sound on

transperceneige

Tryon World Equestrian Games 2018 - show jumping | © Kimberly Loushin

Christian Weier and GLOBAL in the speed round

“I try to ride him like a horse that has two eyes,” said Christian Weier. “He jumps better than most horses with two eyes, so he gives me a lot of confidence. I don’t think about his eye. It can make a difference in a jump-off maybe, but in a course like this it doesn’t really affect him. The problems we had today had nothing to do with his one eye. I don’t know how he handles it, but horses have this capacity [to persevere].”

Global lost his eye in a stable accident shortly after Weier got him as a 5-year-old. A splinter entered his eye and despite treatment, the gelding developed an infection, and removing the eye was their only option.

“I do it as an amateur, and I stick to my horses; I don’t have an option,” said Weier, who is riding as an individual for Luxembourg. “I think he probably wouldn’t have made it in another stable, but he’s really tough, and he’s really my partner, and we’ve done great things. We’ve grown together, and I think he’s just made things possible for me that I wouldn’t be able to do otherwise.”

Weier spends his days running his landscape architecture company during the day and rides in the evenings and on the weekends. Despite his limited show schedule, he’s shown in four FEI European Championships in his career.

“I’m proud, and I think I’m in a unique situation also that I can come here and do the championships,” said Weier, 41. “I did the European Championships, and that’s really for me the only opportunity to show what I’m able to do because on a regular basis I don’t get to the big shows. I do two- or three-star level shows mostly, but it’s easy for him.”

“For me, it’s really nice to be able to show that I can do it here also, and he did a clear round yesterday. I think today was not terrible; it was not what I was hoping for, but I think at this level you see it today there’s a lot of faults, and I think it’s fair enough. I can live with it. I’m not happy, but I’ll accept it.”

via The Chronicle of the Horse