Time Peace Equine, Inc.

22/09/2025

❤️ There will come a time...When you ride them for the last time.
When you buy their feed and cringe at the price, not knowing it’s the last bag you’ll ever buy.

When you scrub the dirt from beneath your nails, their hair from your clothes...unaware that soon, you’ll miss the mess.

When you text the vet about a mystery lameness, dreading the bill...never realizing it's the final call.

When you clean their sweat from the saddle pad, pick the wads of hair from the washing machine, and don’t think twice about the routine.

When you send their blankets off for repair, frustrated by the baseball sized holes, never imagining they won’t need it next season.

When you cancel a ride because they found the only muddy spot in a ten acre pasture and rolled until they were unrecognizable...just as they always do.

And then, the time will come when you hang up their bridle.
When you clean their halter and tuck it away into a shadowbox, a silent tribute in the hallway.

When you carefully store the tail you sent them to heaven without, waiting to turn it into something that keeps them close.
When you hold onto their worn horseshoes, knowing you’ll never hear them clinking down the barn aisle again.

It never happens the way you expect.
You always think there will be more time.
You’ll wish life had slowed down, just enough for you to be there more, to appreciate them longer.

And then, one morning, you’ll wake up...just as I did...and realize the horse that raised you is tired.
That they need you to be strong one last time.

Maybe, somewhere down the road, another horse will come along and leave their mark upon your heart.

But it won’t be them...they wove themselves into your soul...
And nothing...or no one can take that away.

🩷 Michelle | Born In The Barn

28/06/2025

Viggo Mortensen once said:
"Someone once asked me what horses taught me most. I said—everything I needed to unlearn.
They don’t care who you are, or what you've done. They respond to how present you are in that exact moment.
Over time, I realized that if I approached people the way I approach a nervous horse—with patience, with honesty, and without ego—life became a lot quieter, a lot clearer.
You don’t control a horse. You earn its trust.
And maybe that’s the lesson for everything else too.”*

30/08/2024

1M Wo/Man Mvmt on Media:
txt, msg, call-daily, you want to see Bobby DEBATE
tell CNN, FOX, ABC, etc., ...or boycotts are coming...

21/07/2024

Have wrestled with a lot of these thoughts and questions over the years.

09/07/2022

And TWH are still being tortured by their owners and trainers, on public display...and they call it a "show."

Having owned many breeds, mostly "mutts," and ridden may more, my preferred breed is the one I'm sitting on at the moment. My preferred, no, my JOY is whatever kind of riding I am doing in that moment when he or she underneath me is enjoying it, too. That's my definition of successful riding.

Watched so many breeds decimated, and disciplines turned into systems of torture over the years, all in the name of "competition."
Why do Americans have to take everything to the extreme and only, maybe, start to back off when they figure out, yet again, extreme tortures, maims and kills.?

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different outcome.

A great and United country embraces and uplifts ALL of its diversity, while it maintains Respect and Responsibility in balance with Appreciation and Applause. Bragging "Rights" are worthless.

Supporting a breed or a discipline, or both, doesn’t necessarily indicate non-support for some other breeds or disciplines.

I have personally decided to lend support to the Morgan breed because it is a small breed, much more vulnerable than the Thoroughbred, for example, and because it is often perceived as mainly a show ring breed, it can help broaden the Morgan’s appeal to demonstrate sport uses.

The Thoroughbred breed is beginning to take hugely more interest in what happens to its athletes AFTER their racing days are over, and I am feeling pretty good about those efforts.

I am not feeling pretty good about the efforts of the leadership in the sport of eventing to react to so many crippling injuries and fatalities to both horses and riders. I have the sense that the sport has become deadened to shock after just so many, year after year. Just a week ago, the reigning World Champion horse died
while competing, just two weeks after two other horses died at one event, and if THAT doesn’t get the sport to start making some REAL changes, is there much hope?

Responsible oversight does not happen until those in power MAKE it happen. They could start immediately by tinkering and lowering somewhat the required speeds, which are the same now as 60 years ago, when there were far more straightforward open galloping courses. You can’t drive a car without getting a driver’s license. Why should a rider be allowed to go preliminary or higher without a license? Or whatever---Do SOMETHING different to at least prove you notice and care.

In the meanwhile, support the breeds and sports that you care about, and that will include, I believe, being willing to speak up for changes if you feel changes need to be made.

04/11/2021

Not so sure what is meant by "synchronizing" heartbeats. Or, rather, I'm not so sure whoever wrote this knows what "synchronizing" means. Healthy horses in a group at rest, just grazing, are all going to have a heart rate of roughly 40bpm. That's equine physiology on display, not some weird intentional conscious control over heart rate used to communicate with each other.

I'm also curious to know how someone proved horses can hear a human heartbeat from four feet away?? The thing I've often noted when these memes about "what's really happening in a horse's mind" or "how they perceive their world" go around, is an appalling lack of appreciation for how acute a horse's sense of smell is, and also how different their eyesight is compared to people.

I don't know whether a horse can hear a heartbeat four feet away, but it's pretty safe to say they can probably smell an approaching human (or predator) from about 40 feet away and even longer (give or take a little depending on any strong wind currents). And, like a dog, if they've sniffed that human's scent before, they know which human it is (and likewise know whether an approaching predator is a cougar or a wolf or some other natural foe). Horses "recognize" others much more by scent than sight or sound. A human's scent they haven't smelled before is going to go into the alarm system as a possible predator first, for some horses (depending what their overall experience of humans is}. In a real herd situation, the stallion and probably some of the older mares will are always watching for movement in the distance (why, as prey animals their eyes are quite a distance from their noses). if they see any motion from either eye--because they have two separate visual fields, one for each eye--they will pick their heads up--to get away from all the food smells---and point their ears and eyes toward the motion in the distance and sniff --which brings their two visual fields together so they have one (like us) to concentrate on that motion, and what its smell is, so they can figure out who or what it is.

As to sensing your fear, we emit hormones when we are afraid like adrenaline or epinephrine. Horses can likely smell those, just as they can tell whether you're male or female by scent. Horses emit these fear hormones as well. So if one horse in a herd sights a predator, this is more likely what signals the rest of them rather than anyone's heart rate going up. As far as scared people go--it can be very disturbing for an inexperienced horse to have a rider on their back who is fearful because that rider emitting fear hormones drives a horse's primal urge to flee whenever someone near them is emitting that scent signal.

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