To ride a horse is to ride the sky

matinawilsonphotography:

~Matina Wilson Photography

vickaf-photography:

Fê and Faith Climber

lemsequestrian:

horsesinthering:

hoofbeatsandflyingchanges:

Holy scope

Casually hopping over it like it’s nothing

YES I knew I could count on one of yous to gif this! <3

thesportofkings:

I DID NOT MAKE THIS GIF I DON’T KNOW WHO DID!
But it’s like therapy for me to watch.

cowgirlwisdom101:

horsesornothing:

equineribbon:

showjumperer:

ahorse-of-course:

blackponiesrock:

snapshot-equestrian:

FInally drew my own horse!

I thought I could draw horses… until I saw this. I don’t have half the talent I thought I did :/

Oh..that’s not a photo..

How. The. Fuck.

Hoooolyy shiittt

I had to scroll back up omg I thought it was a photo too

Oh. My. God. You are fantastic!

horsesornothing:

equined:

I feel like I’ve uploaded this before…whatever. I found it in one of my photography folders and realized how much I loved it.

The first time, you said Bek’s leg was doing something weird but you liked it anyways :3 I have a strange memory lol don’t mind me

$thecityhorse: horsesofcourses: wings-we-lack: ridetowin: horsesthatmakeuss: just-gallop-it-off: the-tailored-sportsman: Clydesdale stallion Baremuir Superior proves that it’s not just the Thoroughbreds that shine on the cross country course. ok that is all kinds of awesome! Am I the only one that kind of has an issue with this? Draft horses aren’t meant to be jumping huge jumps because of how heavy they are and imagine all that weight coming down on their front legs time after time… I agree to a certain extent, but that is not a huge jump. I think if they were careful with the amount of jumping the horse does/not jumping on hard ground/looking after legs well then it will probably be okay I agree. It’s why I was kinda reluctant to reblog this, actually. I heard about a study that was done once that looked at heavy horses as eventers. Here in Aus, they’re quite popular, especially Clydie crosses. People like them I guess because they think their heavier bone density give them a more ‘bulletproof’ appearance when it comes to jumping solid fences, (as oppose to TBs, for example with their very fine legs and body frames). They also tend to be (and I am not in any way having at go at or criticising anyone here) popular mounts for heavier riders, which makes sense. Anyway, the study supposedly found that these Draft horse crossbreeds that were eventing on a regular basis ended up having huge soundness problems and recovery issues after XC, even in extreme cases, horses collapsing after XC. It does make sense. While Draft horses are very strong animals and are bred to carry heavy loads all day long, they are bred to do it SLOWLY. They are not built for agility, and their legs don’t cope all that well with the high impact of XC. Carrying a rider around and jumping over obstacles at speed at the same time is just not what they’re built for. If you watch a Clydie cross go XC, you will often notice that they are actually reasonably small striding horses (some almost look like they canter on the spot) and are not particularly fast horses, nor are often athletic and scopey (of course there are some exceptions, and it does depend on what the are crossed with). They just don’t open up like the lighter, sportbred horses. And for the person above who said it was okay if they only jumped small fences: My coach once broke in a Clydie x TB that borderline broke down after he jumped it for the first time (at the owners request. Wasn’t his horse, it was a client’s). This horse was about 17.2hh, possibly taller, and was jumping tiny fences only a fraction higher than his fetlocks (I’m talking cross poles here), for less than fifteen minutes. It was just a small introduction to fences. Said horse wasn’t even jumping, barely lifted his legs. And he could hardly walk afterwards. I was asked to hose this horse down after one session and the poor thing was constantly lifting his hindlegs, incredibly stiff and clearly very uncomfortable. Almost like stringhalt. He was even like this after flatwork sessions. A horse only 3 years old, already unsound. :( This, my friends, is why I’m not a fan of the heavy eventing horse. :( I have to disagree. One of the most talented horses to come through my barn was a Percheron warmblood cross, and that horse could JUMP. He loves cross county - he’s a fox hunter now, which does involve some jumping. He would have really excelled in jumpers - my trainer was schooling him 4’ with absolutely no problems before he sold - but he LOVED cross country so that obviously what he was better suited for. He was a draft crossed with a champion and the result was an incredibly talented, solid asshole of a horse. Cross country, especially at high levels, is going to cause lameness issues in ANY breed. It might be more common or perhaps more severe in drafts, but I know plenty of broken horses that came out of cross country that weren’t draft crosses (or, at least, direct crosses). It’s all going to differ based on each individual horse. Just because MOST drafts don’t do well jumping doesn’t mean they ALL don’t, and this guy looks happy and more than capable of doing his job - he’s actually one of the scopiest drafts I’ve ever seen. I have mixed feelings about this and another busy day so I don’t have time to really think about it *but* I’m interested to know what ya’ll think?$

dirty-halfchaps:

lehorse:

equine-hourglass:

Real equestrians ride with no saddle, no bareback pad, no bridle, pants, and go galloping through meadows on a 1,000lb paint horse, controlling it with a single thin rope.

Unless you have a 17h thoroughbred who is made entirely of bone, and you break your vagina just by thinking of sitting on him. So I guess I’ll never be a real equestrian.

Riding my horse bareback is not even an option because1.) he is a thoroughbred and I would literally destroy my entire pelvic area2.) he is old and it would hurt his backGuess I’ll never be a real equestrian either

while I agree it’s great to be able to ride bareback, it’s actually better for the horses back to ride in a saddle. As when riding bareback a lot of pressure goes directly onto the spine. but I love riding without a bridle and just using the neck rope