Turning Point Equine Services

Turning Point Equine Services TPES provides training, breeding consultation, and equine marketing. Our goal is to create harmony between horse and rider.

We also offer professional veterinary technician services such as bandaging, abscess treatment, body work, etc. 734.678.3554

Train your eye!And stop using AI for everything or we will have no farmland left and will be left with only fake AI hors...
08/06/2026

Train your eye!

And stop using AI for everything or we will have no farmland left and will be left with only fake AI horses. I hear they have terrible trots to sit. Rant over.

07/10/2026

She never set out to write a children’s classic.

She wanted to stop people from hurting horses.

By the time Anna Sewell began writing Black Beauty, she had spent decades watching them suffer. As a teenager, she slipped on a rainy road and permanently injured both ankles. The treatments of the day only made things worse. For the rest of her life, she lived with chronic pain, relying on horse-drawn carriages to get almost everywhere. Unlike most Victorians, she didn’t see horses as scenery or machines. She depended on them. She spoke to them gently. And she noticed everything.

She watched exhausted cab horses whipped through city streets. She saw animals worked until they collapsed. She despised the fashionable “bearing rein,” a leather strap that forced horses to hold their heads unnaturally high simply because wealthy owners thought it looked elegant. It was painful, unnecessary, and everywhere.

Confined to bed as her health deteriorated, Sewell spent six years writing the only novel of her life. Too weak to write for long, she often dictated chapters to her mother, Mary, who carefully transcribed them. Her revolutionary idea was simple: let the horse tell the story.

Instead of preaching, Black Beauty invited readers inside the mind of an animal. Suddenly, the horse wasn’t property. It had fears, memories, joy, exhaustion, and pain. Readers who had walked past working horses every day found themselves unable to look away.

Published in November 1877, the book was an immediate success. Anna Sewell died just five months later, never knowing it would sell more than 50 million copies, be translated into dozens of languages, and become one of the most influential animal welfare books ever written.

At her funeral, her mother made one final request: the horses pulling Anna’s hearse would wear no bearing reins.

It was a quiet tribute to a woman who changed the world simply by giving a horse a voice.

03/12/2026

SO ACCURATE. 🤣

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