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Tapesprit

Tapit x High Ratings

Thoroughbred, Gelding

15.2hh

Born 2009

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he's for sale on CANTER 😍😍😍

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Taking a Look Inside Advancements in Equine Imaging (PDF)

via UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine FB

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So today it’s all over social media that a famous show jumping rider just sold her mare for $3,000,000. to another rich kid. And you and I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that hundreds of young aspiring riders will see this, and add it as one more example of the way that the system is rigged against them, and will allow this news to add to their existing sense of disillusionment about their own chances of ever becoming successful. There will be other kids who might give this news a flickering glance, and keep on practicing the sitting trot, keep on jumping the two foot fences to work on their eye for a distance, keep on trading mucking stalls in exchange for lessons, and the chance to ride more horses. And I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, that some day, 25 years from now, it will be one of these latter kids who will be the “big” rider, not the recipients of too much largesse, nor those who use the easy success of some as an excuse to shirk their own struggle.

Denny Emerson on Reed Kessler’s horse, Cylana, being sold to a young amateur for $3 million (via equitation-star)

I felt a tight tug at my chest just now. A little difficult to explain.

(via lowkeyincentive)

Yes!🙌🏼

(via blondieinbreeches)

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Classical music found to soothe stressed horses

HorseTalk.co.nz | 26 August, 2016

Classical music has been shown by French researchers to reduce acute stress in domestic horses.

The study was carried out at the French National Stud at Haras du Pin and involved 48 saddle horses.

Claire Neveux, of equine behavior consulting firm Ethonova, outlined the findings of the research to delegates at the recent International Equitation Science Conference in Saumur, France. The study was conducted with the University of Strasbourg and the University of Caen.

Neveux said domestic horses were regularly subjected to stressful situations due to management practices, such as social isolation, transport, farriery, or exposure to new or sudden stimuli.

“Our goal was to develop a simple procedure that may reduce animal stress when subjected to such acute stressors,” she said.

Neveux and her colleagues assessed the effects of providing classical music to horses exposed in stressful situations.

She noted that classical music had been shown to relax various species. In horses, it had been shown to regulate heart rate and reduce stress-related behavioral reactions when played in the horse’s environment during long-term stressful situations.

The study team tested classical music’s effect when played with an in-ear device on the intensity of stress reaction when horses were exposed to two stressful situations – short-term transport (around 21 minutes) and farriery work. They used the original score composed by Alan Silvestri for the hit movie Forrest Gump. The in-ear device (headphone) was specially designed for horses by the company Horsecom.

The 48 horses were divided into two groups – one for transport and the other for hoofcare. The groups were exposed to the stressful element under three different conditions: with the music being played with the in-ear advice, with earplugs, and with neither in the “control” element.

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Some saddle work of Jean-Luc Parisot

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Their beautiful but are these actually meant to be ridden in?? Like would that be comfortable? I’m envisioning blisters and rubs all over my legs

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Slicing the tendon of a fully extended leg, at the request of diaryofaworkingstudent

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Guys hello!

People always ask me about booting and polos for leg and tendon protection. What you’re seeing here is a fully extended tendon. This is what a horses leg looks like on the first beat of a gallop or say landing from a big fence. It’s under thousands of pressure and in beautiful working order. No boot will support this tendon. I repeat NO boot or polo will protect this tendon.

However… It will protect it from the other legs. You see that fully extended tendon is at its most vulnerable and another leg/hoof hitting it at the right moment will snap the tendon. As is demonstrated in the gif, and he wasn’t pushing hard.

This is why you boot… Not for tendon support but protection. The horses body is made to withstand the pressure on the tendon.

Thank you Marsh for posting the video on Facebook!

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Chex This Melody Out

(Chex That Out x Tularosa Melody)

2003 Black AQHA Gelding

Source: facebook.com

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Morocco Royal Tour 2016 in Rabat | © Jessica Rodrigues

Abdelkebir Ouaddar - who everyone calls Kébir - was born in Aït Ourir, a small village near Marrakech. His father is a well-digger, and his mother Khadija takes care of her five children.

At the age of 8, he was playing street football when he caught the eye of princess Lalla Fatima-Zohra - a sister of King Hassan II - as she was passing through the village. In keeping with a Moroccan tradition in which the royal family can adopt ordinary children from the kingdom, the princess went to Kébir’s parents to offer them to raise him with her own children. Kébir’s mother first refused, but his father thought it was an unhoped-for opportunity.

At the royal court, Kébir was indeed raised as one of the royal family’s children, going back to his village to see his parents twice a month in a chauffeur-driven car.

Fascinated by horses since his youngest years, Kébir used to go around to see local fantasias, even though has was also terrified of horses. When he was 10, Lalla Amina, another of the king’s sisters, helped him overcome his fear of horses to allow him to start riding.

Kébir then discovered his passion for show jumping. As he demonstrated real talent for this sport, the royal family decided to sent him to France at the age of 12 so he could take clinics with Nelson Pessoa. For a decade, Kébir went back and forth between Morocco and France for his training sessions with the Brazilian icon.

His career progressively grew, as he started to compete internationally, notably in the 1997, 2005 and 2009 Mediterranean Games. But even with those achievements, he’s then still very far from show jumping’s top level. Aside from his professional career, he also taught riding to many Moroccan children - more by interest than necessity, as the royal family ensures him a comfortable position in any case.

During a competition in El Jedida, he’s spotted by the famous French trainer Marcel Rozier. Kébir joins him in his training facility in France. King Mohammed VI decides to fund their project, and buys for Kébir the selle français Porche du Fruitier. With the gelding, Kébir gets his first rankings in 5* competitions.

The King then bought him another selle français, Quickly de Kreisker. With that stallion, Kébir became the first Moroccan to win a 5* Grand Prix (the Saut Hermès in 2016), as well as the first Moroccan showjumper to compete in the World Championships (in 2014) and in the Olympic Games (in 2016). In Rio, he was the flag-holder for his country.

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Family portrait in Pau, Michael Jung with his two stars TAKINOU and ROCANA. Notice the rugs with Roxie’s best results embroidered on.

via Facebook

Source: facebook.com

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veterinary-related

In my anat&physio lab, we have been recreating a horse’s muscles using yarn! We still aren’t finished, but are getting close.

Horses are big animals which means that they have big muscles which means that we have used a LOT of yarn.

My favorite muscle in the horse is the deep digital flexor tendon!

ryleehestand

This is so cool 👌🏼

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Dressage at Peterhof

Source: saferion

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Michael Jung was in Varsseveld, Netherlands this week-end, earning a 3rd place-finish with LENNOX 364 in the CIC 2* - a class won by Ingrid Klimke.

He also got STAR CONNECTION back in action in the CIC 1*, finishing 13th with a great feeling :