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pony on a windy day.

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junicorn week 4 - carousel 🎠🎠🎠

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Milky Way (copics on lime green toned paper, micron and gel pen for details)

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Happy #pride , I am a member of your community regardless of anyone’s wish to be rid of me. Hate will not stop me from loving. You will have to get over it.

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Feral and unhandled 5 days ago

(Merlin, 6yo mustang from Muskrat Basin HMA)

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Me and my ponyyyy

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mmmm w o m a n

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Idk if I’ve posted this before but this is what owning a horse is all about

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Hershey doing crunches

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My new horse obsession is the dressage company Academic Art of Riding which is basically experimenting in recreating the airs above the ground with as many different training methods as possible (though of course no forceful or painful methods). They trained one horse entirely according to the notes of a horse trainer from the 1500s??

Look how integrated they make the levade look! It looks like part of a whole movement instead of just a party trick!!

Look at the insane level of collection they've achieved with some of their horses. The third pic is the first actual photo I've seen of a ballotade. I've only seen drawings and paintings of it until now???

They stopped doing extended trots because it has nothing to do with collection and its only purpose is to be flashy - despite basically perfecting the extended trot. The trot on the left? The one most of us would consider perfect?? The rider considers it poorly balanced because the horse's hindlegs are pushing too hard, causing a deeper bend in the front fetlock than is really good for a balanced trot. That's how nitpicky we're getting.

Unfortunately their book is...

...outside my price range, let's say

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Amelia, Central Queensland young stock woman & rodeo bronc rider

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“Pretty well managed by our farrier.”

Mam NO IT’S NOT.

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I’d love to do your horse! 3D portraits available for the cost of materials

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I hate the met galla. None of those people are important to me. My horsey is important to me.

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good morning Bubsan

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Lesson was a SUCCESS!! We hauled out to an indoor arena (which I've never done with her before) and it went amazingly! The trainer also has an older QH gelding I can borrow for lessons when we want to focus on just my equitation and not what my greenie pony is doing too.

First lesson with a trainer on my own pony next Tuesday. I'm nervous!!