Quotes About Equine

I bless the hoss from hoof to head - From head to hoof, and tale to mane! - I bless the hoss, as I have said, From head to hoof, and back again!

Riding uses so many different muscles. I ride two to three horses a day, and I ride almost every day when I'm not working or traveling. You use your legs, your arms, your back. It's a very complete sport.

Horses have different levels of intelligence and different levels of work ethic.

But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.

The unspeakable rituals of the heathen, who might think nothing of sacrificing a horse and then making sport with its phallus, were echoed in grim tales of Christian women transforming themselves into equine form, and revelling in the bestial.

Horses are uncomfortable in the middle and dangerous at both ends.

I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.

saddle, brushes down my gown, hands me my hat

whinnied loudly. An answering neigh came

Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat. -Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727) New Orleans, LA

horses were afraid of only two things: things that moved and things that didn't.

These days, training is increasingly about getting a horse to work "with" us instead of "for" us, and that takes knowledge, not just of what a horse can do and be made to do, but how a horse thinks and can learn to trust us.

Like humans, horses have both shallow sleep and a deeper rest period of rest known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Horses need about fifteen minutes of REM sleep each day, and they can get that only while lying down.

Intellect and Intelligence are close stablemates, however one is a hacker the other a thoroughbred

called Xenophone

A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan.

But he'd "got a leg," as they say in horse speak. Before he'd come to Soysambu, he'd been overtrained, and his tendons had become sensitive, with a tendency to swell.