Haley Ranch

One year ago today we lost our Best Girl 😘. We miss you Pearly Girl💔

Truth

When someone allows her/himself to project human emotions into a horse, it limits that person from figuring out the REAL reason for some behavior.

Example: Someone says "My horse is being a pig."

Possible real reasons behind the "unwanted" behavior---Bad riding, ulcers, bad saddle fit, horse too unfit for the task, horse doesn't understand the task being asked, too painful a bit, tooth leg, hoof, back, neck or other physical issue, too little turnout, there are many possible real reasons.

The better horse people have learned to think like trainers. The lesser ones, not so much. How well does someone want to ride and train? Some get educated, some don't, their choice-------

“Most horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient and forgiving, others are rigorous and demanding, others are cruel, others are ignorant.

Horses have to learn how to, at the minimum, walk, trot, canter, gallop, go on trails and maybe jump, to be treated by the vet, all with sense and good manners.

Talented Thoroughbreds must learn how to win races, and if they can't do that, they must learn how to negotiate courses and jump over strange obstacles without touching them, or do complicated dance like movements or control cattle or accommodate severely handicapped children and adults in therapy work.

Many horses learn all of these things in the course of a single lifetime. Besides this, they learn to understand and fit into the successive social systems of other horses they meet along the way.

A horse's life is rather like twenty years in foster care, or in and out of prison, while at the same time changing schools over and over and discovering that not only do the other students already have their own social groups, but that what you learned at the old school hasn't much application at the new one.

We do not require as much of any other species, including humans.

That horses frequently excel, that they exceed the expectations of their owners and trainers in such circumstances, is as much a testament to their intelligence and adaptability as to their relationship skills or their natural generosity or their inborn nature.

That they sometimes manifest the same symptoms as abandoned orphans - distress, strange behaviors, anger, fear - is less surprising than that they usually don't.

No one expects a child, or even a dog to develop its intellectual capacities living in a box 23 hours a day and then doing controlled exercises the remaining one.

Mammal minds develop through social interaction and stimulation.

A horse that seems "stupid", "slow", "stubborn", etc. might just have not gotten the chance to learn!

Take care of your horses and treasure them.”

~ Jane Smiley

Wowza‼️

The most expensive yearling sold anywhere in the world this year.

The FRANKEL x SO MI DAR (Dubawi) c**t brings 2,8 Million gns from Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin.