Horse Sense

Budweiser Superbowl 2014 Commercial ~ Puppy Love

 

Budweiser have done it again with a super sweet new commercial for the 2014 Superbowl this time starring a puppy along with those magnificent Clydesdales.

Jack Russell riding a miniature horse over jump

 

In this video Dally the Jack Russell terrier rides bareback (and bridless) on the miniature horse Spanky.

 

 

The Difference Between Regular People and Horse People

This video is currently doing the rounds but if you haven't seen it yet it's well worth a look, amusing and oh so true.

 

Did you recognize yourself at all?

"We are not selling Valegro", Carl Hester

Carl Hester and Roly Luard, Valegro's joint owners have confirmed that Valegro will not be sold.The 5 gold medal winning horse will stay at Carl's UK yard and Charlotte Dujardin will continue to ride him. She said  via Facebook on 31st December "What a great end to my year to hear blueberry and I will stay together forever."

Carl Hester believes that Valegro could well have another 5 or 6 years in top competition and that hecould “be better from a technical point of view”.

His owners are now "looking at best way of forming a small syndicate that would benefit us all.” “It’s not an investment opportunity as we are not selling Valegro, but it’s for someone that wants to be part of owning him and seeing through Rio and the rest of his career."

For the full story see Horse & Country

Image:r Equestrian licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

 

Clowns on Ponies - Fancy Dress Friday

Great idea for fancy dress classes at horse shows - Clowns on ponies. These were at Olympia and Tweeted by Clare Balding

 

Other  Equine Fancy Dress Friday posts include:

Horses dressed as trains

Horse dressed as Little Miss Muffet's Spider

The cardboard costume challenge

Halloween Fancy Dress for Your Horse Video

Pony bride

The explorers pony

Pegasus Chariot Amazing Equine Fancy Dress

Video of horse and rider costumes

Moulin Rouge costume for horse and rider

Native costumes

Three Wise Men Shetland Style

Dachshund dressed as a horse

Lord of the Rings Ringwraith

Sinterklass

Little Bo Peep has lost her Sheep

Pony dressed as Ballet Dancer

Horse as giraffe

Night mare costume for horse & children

Invisible horse

Horse dressed for diving / swimming horse costume

Hula Hula Horse

Ladies Day

Horses dressed as fish

Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf

Horses and Ponies dressed as Unicorns

A foal with wings

Horses as Zebras

Harry Potter Horse

Fancy Clip - Camel 

How to paint your horse's skeleton

Horse dressed as elephant

Horse dressed as dinasour

Horse dressed as a car, 

Spanish Lady

Dog dressed as horse

Sunflower Horse and Bumble Bee Handler

Pirate Ship

Skeleton

Easter Bunny

If Wishes Were Ponies - Franga Designs

Fancy Clips

BRC Quadrille Selection 2011

Miniature Horses in Fancy Dress

Pony dressed as lion

Pony styled as a poodle

Instructions for making an equine poodle costume here

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"genetic proclivity toward the equine species" ~ Allan J. Hamiliton quote

"I was drawn to horses as if they were magnets. It was in my blood. I must have inherited ... a genetic proclivity toward the equine species"

                                                                             ~ Allan J. Hamilton

 

Click the following links for more horse quotes:

 

Horse Quotes, Favourite Horse Quotes,

"Maximizing your own knowledge of horse health ..." Douglas O Thal quotation

"His closest friends were his horses ..." Sir Henry Cecil

"People ought to quit worrying so much about whispering to their horses ..." Greg Darnall.

 

Never to lose one's temper with the horse is a good precept - Xenophon

 

Good riding is an affair of skill but bad rising is an affair of courage - Colnel VDS Williams OBE

 

Brazillian proverb - He made the horse

 

The jewel of my childhood - ponies -Nell Gifford

 

Your horse should be a trusted friend - Xenophon

 

Praise for thoroughbreds - Dianne Grod

 

The horse is a very noble creature - Desmond Morris

 

Make him your FRIEND - Oliveira

 

stables are the real centre of the household - George Bernard Shaw

 

The Queen and Horses,

 

Monica Dickens - You and your horse,

 

Sherlock Holmes - Game of Shadows

 

Black Elk - A Sky Full of Horses

 

Don Vincenzo Giobbe

 

Seabiscuit - Quotation from the film

 

Elizabeth Taylor - on horses

 

Anna Sewell - quote about bad tempers and horses

Welcome to 2014 -

Happy New Year to all our readers

let's make it a better one for horses everywhere!

Image: Richard Ansdell The auld farmer's New Year gift to his auld Mare Maggie