My Soapbox for Equestrian Writings
Considering the size of a horse’s head, you’d think that it’s brain would be pretty large. And the brain in total is a reasonable size. Picture a small grapefruit. The problem is that the thinking part, the cerebrum, is only slightly larger than a walnut or slightly smaller than a lemon. The rest is cerebellum, […]
Read MoreThe Quadrille today is a choreographed dressage ride that’s usually performed to music. As a ridden demonstration it became popular in the 17th century with four riders performing movements in a square. In fact, it was so popular that it became a popular dance. Riding in a quadrille is very challenging. I’ve tried it and […]
Read MoreHorses in Wyoming are nothing new. In fact, the ancestors of the horses we know today were roaming what are now the plains 50 million years ago. Called Hyracotherium, this mammal was small, the size of a small dog or fox. But fossils of these tiny pre-equines are rare. One of the most recent finds […]
Read MoreI know this topic has been covered before — Behind the Bit did a posted on this several months ago — but tonight I came across some amazing photos of the diving horses of Atlantic City in the Life Magazine collection on Google. It is such a mind-boggling stunt that I still find it difficult […]
Read MoreIt’s seems ironic that the reported Seventh Cavalry’s “sole survivor” of battle of Little Big Horn should be a horse named Comanche. He was given the name in honor of his bravery in a fight against the Comanche in 1868, in Kansas where he was struck in the flank by an arrow. Comanche was a […]
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