| From rocking horse to show jumping | | Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 9:26:27 PM by Rose Martins | It's really difficult not to love a horse. Horses are beautiful creatures. Horse owners are usually crazy about horses in general, and often have horse pictures and miniture horse figurines in their homes and places of work. All horses were once wild.  These beautiful animals would roam the land in herds. It was unusual to find a lone horse.
Man has been taming horses for years, for work purposes, travel purposes and for sport and games. Horse racing has become a very popular sport and gambling venture.
Horse breeders carefully chose their horses and ensure that the prize horses have suitable, comfortable and warm quarters. They transport their horses in special horse trailers, designed for the comfort and safety of the horse.
When riding a horse, it's imperative that you use the correct tack. Tack that is uncomfortable for the horse can be dangerous to both you, the rider, and the horse. Many children grow up playing with a rocking horse.
Rocking horses have been around for centuries, and are often kept fondly and passed down the generations. It is this rocking horse that is often the springboard for horse lovers, who go onto riding horses, show jumping and polo.
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| | | Beijing 2008 Horses To Be Quarantined | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 1:10:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | All horses participating in equestrian events at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games will have to go through quarantine before and after entering Hong Kong, site of the equestrian events, to ensure the horses are healthy. Dr. York Chow, Secretary of Health, Welfare and Food of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region said in an interview on the official Beijing 2008 website that about 300 horses will take part in the Olympics and around 70 will compete at the Paralympic Games. The horses are coming from more than 40 countries and regions. The horses will be quarantined for one week in six quarantine centres located in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand according to an arrangement made between a Hong Kong agency, the International Equestrian Federation and the World Organization for Animal Health, said Chow.... | |
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| | | City allows horses a bed in Bandera | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 3:10:43 AM by Blog57 Team | | Bandera Mayor Denise Griffin says she's not entirely sure why a previous council, one she was adamantly not a part of, put on the books an ordinance that banned horses from overnight stays within the city limits. But after a unanimous vote by the current council at their Nov. 2 special meeting, horses are once again welcome in the city. "I couldn't speculate why they would incorporate something like that into the rules in the Cowboy Capital of the World," Griffin said. "This [amendment] is fixing that." This issue came to light when Pioneer RV Park went to the city to see about allowing overnight stays for horses and their owners, and the council had to take under consideration an older ordinance that disallowed equines from overnight stays within town. The new ordinance now allows horses to stay overnight, but only for a short period of time.... | |
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| | | Horses to head home soon | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:36:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | If all goes well, 20 horses quarantined at Colorado State University's Veterinary Teaching Hospital will be allowed to go home next week. The horses were quarantined after being exposed to a strain of the equine herpes virus called EHV-1 and five horses tested positive for the virus, said Paul Morley, director of biosecurity at the hospital. .... | |
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| | | Stranded horses rescued from flood waters | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:33:35 AM by Blog57 Team | | MARRUM, Netherlands (AP) -- Rescuers on horseback lured a herd of about 100 horses off a mud-soaked knoll where they had been stranded for three days and led them through receding flood waters to safe ground Friday. Nineteen horses had drowned or died of exposure from the days and nights on the patch of earth that was turned into an island during a storm Tuesday night. The plight of the horses has gripped the country after the storm surge pushed sea water into the wilderness area outside the dikes of Marrum, a town 145 kilometers (90 miles) northeast of Amsterdam. (Watch horses huddle on the strip, get hauled to safety -- 1:00) Four women on horseback guided the animals about 600 meters (650 yards) to higher ground, and the entire herd -- except one horse -- followed them back without hesitation.... | |
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| | | Horses quarantined at Monmouth Park | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 11:21:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nearly 100 horses have been quarantined at Monmouth Park as race and health officials try to contain a potentially deadly equine virus that may be spreading among the thoroughbreds and sending the industry into a tizzy. Sixteen horses at Monmouth Park have either tested positive for or shown symptoms of the equine herpes virus and nearly 80 more have been segregated because they came in contact with the other horses in the past two weeks, health and race officials said yesterday. Dr. Nancy Halpern, director of the division of animal health at the state Department of Agriculture, said the 16 horses in question had elevated temperatures and are being kept in one barn in the stable area where they are being tested and monitored several times a day. Two other barns at the racetrack in Oceanport hold the other quarantined thoroughbreds, which also must be watched for signs of the disease.... | |
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| | | Putting Internet Security at Risk | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:05:45 AM by Blog57 Team | | My father owned horses throughout my early childhood. Almost every time I was around the animals, he would tell me: "Son, don't walk behind those horses." So I grew up with the firmly implanted knowledge that walking behind horses was a really dangerous act -- so much so, that now that my family owns horses I constantly tell my wife: "Sweetheart, don't walk behind those horses." It's a caution she only half-accepts and one that I was beginning to doubt, considering that in 15 years of owning horses not one has ever kicked out in an attempt to do either of us harm. .... | |
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| | | Despite protests, horses to make way for senior center | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:07:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | An emotional battle, involving Coppell Country Acres Equestrian Center and the proposed senior center, came to a head at the Sept. 26 city council meeting. In a fight many have characterized as "horses versus senior citizens," opposing views presented at the meeting showed that lines aren't so easily drawn."This is not about horses versus seniors," Roger Kellett of The Reserves Homeowner's Association said. "This is about very vigilant citizens doing their best to keep up with a very quick-moving city management and council, and what a number of people would call disingenuous behavior on the part of the city."Coppell's council chambers were packed with senior citizens and residents voicing their opinions, concerns and making requests at the city council meeting. While council members listened to requests, Mayor Doug Stover said plans for the senior center will not change."The senior center will move forward and the equestrian center will close," Stover said.... | |
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| | | Flogging Dead Horses Is Very Bad, Strangling Mistresses Is Totally ... | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:08:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | A Wonkette operative living in Don "Chokehold" Sherwood's district kindly forwarded us a "personal letter" from the Chokin' Congressman's poor wife. The terrible thing has been direct-mailed all over the 10th district, turning Carol Sherwood's private agony into common junk mail. We've got the whole sadly hilarious thing, after the jump. Also, our man in PA notes that Sherwood's strangle-icious mistress is about the same age as Sherwood's daughters. Yuck. .... | |
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| | | Flying horses | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 7:07:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | If wishes were horses, then parents of horse-crazy girls would be driving to Hershey or Harrisburg this weekend. Two major attractions, the World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions and the Pennsylvania National Horse Show, will draw thousands of equine enthusiasts to central Pennsylvania this weekend. Both events are considered equestrian entertainment, a category of attractions that, over the past 20 years, has leapt from a multimillion-dollar niche business to a multibillion-dollar industry in the United States. What will you get for the price of admission? Heres a brief preview of both events: -You dont have to be a horse-crazy adolescent girl to be awed by this image: an ivory steed flying across an arena, mane and tail fanning out behind like feathers. Its a sight that struck fear into soldiers, from ancient Greece through the fall of the Hapsburgs.... | |
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| | | Ill-fated Horses Find New Life at Godspeed Horse Hostel | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 11:09:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | Fate is fickle, and for the five young horses now living at Godspeed Horse Hostel, it wasn't looking too bright. Like thousands of other foals whose mothers are on urine production lines for the hormone replacement drug, Premarin, these foals had a good chance of being killed at a slaughterhouse, their carcasses sent to Europe and Asia for human consumption. Thankfully, Maria Genovesi intervened and has given these lovely animals a new lease on life on her 33-acre farm in Amenia, New York. A lifelong horse enthusiast, Genovesi is fulfilling her dream of helping ill-fated horses find homes through adoption. Genovesi grew up in Katonah, and started horseback riding at age eight. At 12, she got her first horse, Leo, a crossbred mare, and at age 13 had her first equine-related job working at a local stable taking care of horses.... | |
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