Archive for March, 2009

Recreational Horseback Riding For Seniors

I had an email a while back to ask me to provide information about horseback riding for seniors, so having found this article today, I thought I would bring it to your attention. A four-week recreational horseback riding session, will be offered April 3, 10, 24 and May 1 by the Horses of Hope Riding [...]

Think Before You Breed….

That’s the message from the British Horse Society and with the continual rise in running costs,  the large increase in horses at sancturaries and taken to horse refuges, there’s never been a more important time to ask horse owners to consider whether now is the right time to breed.  With over 1.35m horses in the [...]

Horses were tamed a millennium earlier than previously thought

Wow!  This is very interesting.  There is apparently new evidence to suggest horses were domesticated over a 1,000 years earlier than first believed to be the case.
It’s amazing what science and archaeology can uncover these days - and I have problems working out what I did 20 years ago!
This is a fascinating article which you [...]

You Have To Visit The Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Seriously, if you live anywhere near New York, or will be visiting New York before 24th May 2009, you have to go to see the display on horses at work. 
It begins with the story of the evolution of the horse over the past 55 million years and ends with a look at the symbiotic relationship [...]