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A city is a terrible place to keep a horse, but for one reason or another too many of them seem to end up there.
Many of them work pulling tourist carriages, others as police horses and still others provide transportation.
Regardless of the reason they are there, there is always something decidedly melancholy about a horse in the city.
These photographers did a great job of capturing the plight of the urban horse.
Bhutan is an interesting horse area, the animals are used in large part for work and agriculture.
In the late 1960’s & 70’s the Austrian government sent several small herds of Haflinger horses to Bhutan to work on a Swiss farm. However the Haflinger was found to be unsuitable for the local people, they were too large and not surefooted enough for the terrain.
More recently, in 2000 a small heard of Spiti horses were imported to begin a trial breeding program. The Spiti has similar characteristics to local animals and it is hoped they will be better suited to the needs of the locals.
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Perhaps most well known for their lovely long, curly coat of hair, the American Bashkir horse is a breed shrouded in the unknown. The existance of a horse with the *curly* gene in North America is a mystery.
Their bloodlines are clearly the same as the Bashkir horse native to the Ural mountains. Animals with curly coats were discovered in America in the early 19th century.
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There is something so very majestic about a horse when they rear up onto their hind legs. It takes their great size to a whole new level and essentially forces you to show some respect & pay attention.
I really enjoyed putting together this horses in motion series, dedicated to horses moving everywhere.
With so many disciplines and types of horse, it seems the movement possibilities are endless.
So far, I’ve covered horses playing & bucking and there are plenty more where that came from.
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Name
Jennifer MacNeill-Traylor
Website & Places you can find my work online
My website is a work in progress: www.gypsymare.com
My blog is updated several times a week: gypsymare.blogspot.com
Ebay: Gypsy Mare Studios
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Cafepress: Gypsy Mare Studios
Follow Jennifer on Twitter: @GypsyMareArt
Where I am
East Petersburg, PA which is in the bucolic countryside of Lancaster County.
Tell us a little about you, what is your background & where do you come from?
I grew up in Cochranville, PA. My mother had a palomino mare named Gypsy when I was born and took me on trail rides with her when I was a baby! I blame that horse for my lifelong addiction to all things equine.
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There are a number of horse classified sites out there, but it seems very few of them have made their way onto social media. Here is a list of the few equine classified services I could find.
Be sure to stop by and say hi to @theequinest too.
A listing of horse classified services on twitter in alphabetical order – all links open in a new window.
@canadaequine
Canada Equine On-Line – Horse Classifieds
Canada
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Name
Jessica Duffy
Website and places where you can find my work online
Website: www.ahorseaday.com
Facebook: Jessica Duffy Photography
Follow Jessica on twitter: @jessicaduffy
Where I am
I’m a rising sophomore at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
Tell us a little about you, what is your background and where do you come from?
I’m from Sebastopol, California. My passion is for horses.
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This is a position which benefits from attention to detail, the ability to juggle multiple tasks and management experience. Racetrack trainers must work with a variety of people during their day, owners, jockeys, training riders, vets and farriers to name a few.
A flexible attitude, a sublime knowledge of the racing industry and a deep understanding of horse anatomy, physiology and psychology are all essential elements of a great racetrack trainer.
It’s always good to stretch before any type of exercise, and we all know that just being around horses is exercise. This video gives tips on handy warm up stretches for equestrians.
Click through to view video.
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Most horse lovers began their equestrian careers with their behind firmly planted on rocking horse as a child.
This post is kind of in the art vein, kind of in the photography vein and definitely in the strange vein.
I started out just looking for cool rocking horse images, and quickly learned that there are some really strange ones out there. So I gathered them all up to share and here they are…a really weird (and almost spooky) collection of rocking horses.
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Name
Stephanie Riggenbach
Website & Places you can find my work online
My new website: nighthorsestudio.webs.com
You can also find me at www.wetcanvas.com and www.artpapa.com under the name SREquineImages.
Where I am
Seville, Ohio
Tell us a little about you, what is your background & where do you come from?
I was born and raised in Ohio. I’m self-taught artistically. I never went to college, that just wasn’t for me. I did take two years of Commercial Art in high school, but that’s as far as it went.
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Horse cultures can be found in all corners of the globe and it’s important that we preserve them. The onslaught of mechanization during the 20th century redefined our relationship with this noble animal. We want to celebrate all horse cultures of he world, even if we find some of them disagreeable.
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