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09/20/2024

Do You Love Horses? So Do We! 🐴❤️

✨ Learn with Other Horse Crazy Kids and Teachers! ✨
(classes for grown ups coming soon, feel friend to send a PM!)

Is your child crazy about horses? Now they can explore their passion AND excel in academics with our live, online classes—all through the lens of horses!

🏇 What We Offer:

Small-group learning in a supportive community
Fun, interactive classes via Zoom
Experienced teachers who are fellow horse-lovers!
Courses that blend core academics with horse-related topics like Careers in the Horse Industry and Fitness for Equestrians 🏋️‍♀️
🌟 Why Choose Us? We believe in double-goal learning: Excellence in Horses + Excellence in Academics.

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05/23/2024

Join us for our second R+ Virtual Show! A space for R+ enthusiasts to enjoy some friendly competition, show what they are working on, and WIN BUCKLES & RIBBONS!!

June show patterns released: June 2nd and entries due June 15th!

2 divisions, 2 buckles, 6 ribbons and a special fan favorite prize will be given out.

Enter at https://positive.horse/virtual-show

01/30/2024

Love this

Still one of my favourite illustration. I will often use a plastic banana to demonstrate those movements and talk about the "banana bend" 🍌 😄

Do you find them helpful...?!

01/17/2024

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11/24/2023

That is one sad saddle owner! This is why we don’t store horse cookies or any food in the tack room. 😳

How’s your Friday going 🧐🙄 !! Gotta love a CWD seat 💺 😂

11/14/2023

I had no idea off road inline skates were a thing!

11/05/2023

Love this - “Only one horse took real and actual notice of the prints on the wall and that one was this really incredible 3-year-old…He ignored the other prints & stared long and hard at the portrait of his sire… you really can’t make these things up 🤯”

Zangersheide 2023. There are full circle moments that you never expect and I take them as they come but this, made me step back and truly appreciate the meaning.

It was a fun surprise to see my prints from previous years’ sessions printed life size in Zangersheide’s incredible viewing arena, & while we were busy there all day photographing this year’s roster of stallions, only one took real & actual notice of the prints on the wall & that one was this really incredible 3-year-old son of Aganix du Seigneur Z. His name is Ambassador Z; he ignored the other prints & stared long & hard at the portrait of his sire… you really can’t make these things up 🤯

Never doubt a horse, they are always taking notes.

05/13/2023

For HOW DO HORSES FEEL ABOUT HAVING THEIR MANES PULLED?

A brilliant recent study by MSc student Louise Nicholls found that horses are unsurprisingly pretty stressed by the process. Louise compared the heart rates and behaviour of 20 horses having their manes pulled or touched.

The results showed that the horses mean heart rates were significantly higher when they had their manes pulled than when their manes were touched. The horses also had higher mean heart rates when the mane pulling was started at the poll working down, than at the withers working up.

The horses also moved far more when their manes were pulled compared to mane touching e.g. ears back, standing alert, licking and chewing, a high neck position, head tossing, mouth tight and tail swishing and clamping - indicating they experienced discomfort or pain at the process being performed.

While the horse's stress and discomfort may seem obvious to many horse owners, this appears to be the first time the effects of mane pulling has been studied - so a huge well done to Louise for raising awareness on this subject. I wouldn't like to have my hair pulled out forcibly either! Time to find another way to keep manes tidy - or just leave them as nature intended.

In light of the recent findings on horses having more pain receptors in their skin than humans, this topic is well worth revisiting. Huge thanks to Louise for sharing her study findings.

Pic courtesy: BK Images — with Louise Nicholls.