And pushing 91! Hopefully Ken Hobday will provide some inspiration for your weekend; you're never too old to call yourself an equestrian, and a skilled one too!
Have you ever thought about how long your riding career will last?
And pushing 91! Hopefully Ken Hobday will provide some inspiration for your weekend; you're never too old to call yourself an equestrian, and a skilled one too!
Have you ever thought about how long your riding career will last?
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I've been riding since I was 9, and in love with horses from the day I was born. Living in Washington with my horse and 5 dogs.
Really, the most important thing you’re missing right now is not being with your horse 1-on-1. Stop reading this article, put on some barn-appropriate-attire and say, “screw it” to whatever you had planned to do on the computer (those 6 hours of repetitiously refreshing your Facebook newsfeed for example..). The emails you were going to grudgingly respond to can wait until the morning. That series you were going to watch on Netflix can’t compete with the horse hair you’ll be covered in for the rest of the night.
No one knows ourselves so well as we do – absolutely NO ONE. Not our parents, siblings, best friends. So why would those against us – our enemies – know us any better?
Popularity is a fleeting experience, just as being the enemy is. Our only endeavor of any value is not to gain the high opinion of those horse riders around us and across the globe. The only opinion that has merit is that of the horse we are working with in that very moment. That split second we have a choice – to be popular to the horse, or popular to the crowd. Usually it is the latter that wins out in public forums, unfortunately.
I have been ponying horses for a number of years now, on a regular basis, and am absolutely convinced of its value and efficacy with young horses as well as older trained riding horses. There…
Heads up, this post contains foul language. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. More often than you’d expect, I receive comments that are .. displeased with my writing. But the majority of them always come…
Often dressage is compared to a dance, with few examples showing such harmony between the horse and rider that you see only the art and none of the work. This beautiful dance can serve as…
Horsemanship hasn’t evolved very far, and Danny Thomas provided a glowing demonstration of that fact with these self-posted videos on Facebook. Bragging that he was able to break a Mustang in 30 minutes… Why are…
Ken’s attitude is remarkable, moving, to be praised and admired by, both, young and not so young people. But such an attitude, as we can perceive in the video, is not limited to his equestrian love. What is really admirable is the cause: his inner strength to demonstrate (to himself!) that he can, that he can do whatever he wants to achieve and enjoy, irrespective of possible obstacles such as being 91. An applause for Ken!