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Watch This: Alternative Uses For the Water Walker
Turns out, this conditioning tool has a few unique, shall we say, side benefits.
Video: Alpaca Gone Wild
It doesn’t matter how many videos I watch of alpacas “pronking,” it never ceases to be hilarious.
Watch: Outrider’s GoPro Catches Epic Belmont Moment
Just you, your horse, a Triple Crown winner, and 100,000 of your closest friends screaming at the top of their lungs!
The Bomb-Proofest Grand Prix Horse in the History of Ever
No, your chainsaws and umbrellas shall not disturb my one-time tempis, thankyouverymuch.
There is very little that I can add in words to enrich this performance by Swedish rider Anna Blomgren and her 2006 mare, Donna Summer. But it suffices to say that umbrellas, fire, chainsaws, and the world’s most creative use of a tarp are no match for Anna and Donna. Journalistic impartiality be damned; this is positively awesome.
Anna has worked her way up the dressage ranks all over the world, including “trying to do dressage on half-broke Arabians in the woods of Mississippi”, and working at the iconic Blue Hors Stud in Denmark. She currently works and trains out of the Netherlands, but if she ever comes to teach a clinic in America we will let you know. I personally would quite like to see the tarp trick in person.
You can find out more about Anna at her website, http://www.annadressage.com/.
Go riding!
Correction: In our initial publishing of this story, we incorrectly identified Anna as Danish. She is in fact Swedish! Thanks to our readers for catching our error. Go Sweden!
The Best $8 Spent on a Horse
DIY “cool” entertainment for your horses this summer.
Video: Pony Wears Clothes, Eats Cereal
Unsurprising to no one, ponies are less cooperative than dogs for this running gag.
Have you seen the hilarious video jokes in which people take their dogs, stuff them into an oversized sweater with themselves, then feed them at the dinner table? For whatever reason, it never gets old to see a dog with human hands using silverware. This video illustrates the concept:
And finally someone’s done it with a pony … and while the sight of a pony in a hoodie is pretty hysterical, ponies apparently don’t eat with quite as much fervor as dogs. (Log in to Facebook to view.)
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Posted by Krogbækgaard Læsø on Sunday, May 17, 2015
For crying out loud, someone teach this pony some manners … he has no idea how to eat with a spoon. Kudos to whatever person is crammed into this sweatshirt with this pony, because that’s gotta be a tight fit.
Go riding!
SB Nation: Horses Need to Play More Sports
Alternate title: “why bros don’t ride horses.” (more…)
Auburn U Just Did What We’ve All Been Dreaming Of
Yep, they put a football player on a horse. And nope, it doesn’t go well. (more…)
Jockey Moons Field, Crowd at Canterbury, Australia
This takes wardrobe malfunctions to a new level. (more…)
Have Bale, Will Travel
Alternate title: “How to move a hay bale like a boss.” (more…)
Watch: Budweiser Clydesdales Take Home Plate at Busch Stadium
St. Louis officially wins the award for most awesome home opener baseball tradition. (more…)
Get Pumped: Longines Global Champions Tour Releases New Trailer for 2015
Seriously, if this video doesn’t instantly make you a show jumping fan, we don’t know what will. (more…)
These Kids Designed the World’s First Equine Periscope
It’s called the ‘Pedroscope,’ and allows the barn’s Shetland to see out into the stable yard. Yep, it’s real. (more…)
5 Horses Farting
Because it’s always hilarious. (more…)
Daily Dose of Adorable: Goats Riding Horses
…with a title like that, what else do you need to know? (more…)
‘I Meant to Do That’
Ever trip and fall and hope that no one noticed? This horse hasn’t.
This Welsh Cob Loves His Leaf Blower
Gallod Gethin is a 6-year-old Welsh Cob owned by Elizabeth Taylor. Of Gethin’s strange obsession with the leaf blower, Elizabeth explains, “Everyone at the barn thinks of him as a person or a puppy… He absolutely loves being blown in the face by a leaf blower, especially in the summer time! Anytime someone blows out the barn, they must take a moment to blow his face (haha).”
Thanks for sharing, Elizabeth! Go goofy ponies, and Go Riding.