Entries tagged with horses

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How are the horses?

The horses are fine. They're still shedding out and with the optimism of spring I'm about convinced that I want to go to a (small, local) dressage show to feel bad about myself and my riding and my horse again. What fun!

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bird,
horses

Didn't you used to have horses?

I still have horses, Bird (the rideable) and Finn (the young sir). They've been standing around eating carbs for the last several months of fur, mud, and cold. But with the advent of snow melt and warmer weather, yesterday I fetched Bird out of his paddock and hopped aboard.

( How did that go? )

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State of the horse people's horses.

There are still too many, but we're doing better. I checked my notes from 2017 so that I could see how much headway we have made since then.

( How do you STOP being a horse hoarder? )

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An Informative Graph

Some person on reddit asked about the price of a sound, safe, FUN hunter for an adult lady rider who wanted to do the 3'6" hunters. Person was a bit "She says 30K but that seems like an insane amount of money FOR A HORSE" and so... I drew a graph.

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Horse shopping. Depressing as hell for oh so many reasons...

Today's reason is the following pair of Dreamhorse.com ads. I've removed the identifying info but you can totally find the ads if you want.

( Click to see the trainwreck! )