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“Why Premarin Still Needs Horses” – Horse Collaborative
I don’t know what makes me look at horse dramas lately, but I believe this article on Horse Collaborative is worth to share. So, imagine yourselves standing still 24/7, with a device attached to your butt to collect your urine for manufacturing purposes. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t like to have this fate. But this disgusting experience is the routine of quite many dehydrated mares, whose urine is used to produce the menopause medicine Premarin. Premarin is a drug used to relieve mature women from menopause symptoms. To read the article, click here
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Getting into the trot!
Those who follow my blog know it already; I suck at trotting. After 10 months of riding, my trot is not where it’s supposed to be. But today it just went right! Today I mounted on a bigger horse, Orlando. He’s a beautiful brown horse, maybe too big for me, but quite energetic and willing, hence a good opportunity for exercise. So, yeah, we were doing driving stuff with corners, poles and blocks, until Laura told us to trot! It was a disaster! I can say I got a bit panicked, when I realized that the stirrups were too long! So, although I was almost there, I couldn’t follow Orlando’s…
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Five Ground Exercises to Try with Your Horse – Horse Magazine
I found this article on Horse Magazine very interesting. What I understood from it as a beginner is that keeping a horse and maintaining its manners is hard work! The link is here
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Posting or Rising to the Trot – Podcast
You are a luck person if you have iTunes. Today I subscribed to the podcast channel “Daily Strides”. As far as I understand, the instructor delivers several such podcasts every week. On the podcast below she speaks about rising trot. She touched all my mistakes; using the upper body etc, but I found interesting her opinion about the “up-down” instruction. She says it’s wrong, because it creates exactly this problem. Better, she advises instructors to use the “one-two” instruction instead. And I don’t get the difference here: why would “up-down-up-down” specifically makes me makes all these mistakes, while “one-two-one-two” works better? Any ideas? http://feeds.feedburner.com/stridesforsuccess/jcZh
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Living Legends of the West: The Story of America’s Wild Horses and Burros – Documentary
Today I watched a National Geographic documentary on the herd management of wild horses in the United States, to preserve the local ecosystems. You can watch it on YouTube below
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The Athens Olympic equestrian complex
Yesterday I wrote about the history of the Greek racing and the establishments in which it used to and takes place. I wrote that today the only race course in Greece is situated in the super modern centre in Markopoulo, 8km from Athens International Airport. Today, after a visit to the official website of Markopoulo I’m writing about the entire equestrian complex that accommodates the race course, together with other equestrian sports. So, according to the website, the entire complex is 940,000 square metres in size. It accommodates a plethora of arenas, including The main, sodded show jumping arena (90 x 120m) The main, sand dressage arena (80 x 40m)…