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We’ve all heard of the Pony Express – the postal service of the wild, wild west. Well, they were pretty serious about the mail in a quick & efficient manner. In fact, they couldn’t even be bothered to slow down when transferring the bag from a spent rider to a fresh one.
Here is a quick (although a little shaky) video of a mail bag exchange between riders as it was done back in the day of the Pony Express.
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When it comes to iPhone apps there is an endless supply of time wasters & plenty of those have a horse theme. Amid all of those there are actually some very useful training apps in iTunes.
There is nothing easy about training a horse, and it certainly can’t be learned via your iPhone. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get some help, use the experience of others and (using your mobile phone) get instant answers. For each of the apps below I’ve provided a brief description and a link to them on the iTunes app store.
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Parahippus is an apparent evolutionary link between the older horses of the forest and the modern grazing animals found on the plains. They lived from 24-17 million years ago during the early Miocene.
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Over the years in writing this site I’ve accumulated quite a collection of horse RSS feeds. From horse artists to equine publications to horse rescues I follow a little bit of everything. Most of them discovered through social media communities or reader recommendations.
The other day I started doing some organizing of my feed reader and decided I should post this huge list of blogs for my readers. Fortunately they were already organized so I could post them by category (in case you haven’t noticed, I’m big on categories) to make them easier to digest. Listed below in alphabetical order.
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Wouterus Verschuun was a Dutch painter who focused his art on animal subjects, primarily horses. In keeping with Dutch art traditions both his attention to detail and anatomy manages to be simple and embellished all at the same time.
As a youth Verschuun studied with landscape and cattle painters who clearly helped him develop an admiration for the common working animal. He left a legacy of 400 paintings and some 2000 drawings when he died in 1874. Not to mention a protégé who later went on to become quite the celebrated equine artist himself, Anton Mauve.
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Last time we took a look at the training apps of Jane Savoie and today I’ve got another series of mobile training apps to share.
Training a horse is no simple task, and you obviously can’t learn how to do it on your iPhone. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get some help, use the experience of others and get instant answers from people in the know. These apps are aimed at the Western discipline & for each of one I’ve provided a brief description and a link to them on the iTunes app store.
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It’s Monday and toxic plant day for the third week and running. There is a long list of plants horses can’t eat and I’m bringing you a little more info and some pictures of each one to help you identify them. Today a closer look at the seemingly harmless (& incredibly common) Alsike Clover.
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Sure it’s a sponsored video, but that is one heck of an equine motorcoach and anyone who spends time on the road with their horse will want to take a peek…and a drool.
Some of us never budge and prefer to keep our animal’s feet under them rather than wheels. But if you have to travel, why not do it in style?
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There are a wide variety of equine themed apps in the iTunes store and I’ve been combing through them in the hopes of categorizing and organizing them. It’s been fun to see what the mobile world has to offer equestrians – new meets old.
Many in the horse world know Jane Savoie and today I’m sharing her training apps – each one geared toward helping with specific issues and areas. There is only 3 (for now) and for each one I’ve provided a brief description and a link to them on the iTunes app store.
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The Megahippus is one of the rarer species of equidae so it’s fossils (& images of them) are actually quite difficult to come by. These animals lived around 15-11 million years ago during the Miocene.
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It’s horse breed Thursday again and time for the final letter of the breed alphabet. Make sure you visit the breeds section where I’ve written pages about every breed I can find.
If you haven’t met the rest of the alphabet, be sure to do so A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y. Today it’s about breeds that start with Z from the springy Zangersheide bred solely for jumping to the noble bearing of the Zweibrucker.
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Karl Bodmer was born in Switzerland and studied art there until he turned 24 when he was pegged by Prince Alexander of Wid-Newuied to accompany him to the New World. The purpose of the trip – to study the Native tribes of America.
Bodmer accompanied the prince throughout North America for several years learning and painting the local people along the way (81 images of them). His work embodies many native cultures we no longer see today and provide a fairly realistic & objective view of life for North American tribes during the early 19th century.
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