Award-winning time-travel adventure through history ... on horseback!
“History is a Tale of Horses” … Tomorrow begins a new series of short posts tracing the chronological history of horsemanship. The series will be published daily on both Facebook and Twitter as short ‘tweet’-sized posts.
The horse is an ancient species and has never surrendered his basic nature. In a real sense, every horse is born wild.
It can be hard to write about horses and not be misunderstood. Most people seem decided about horses one way or another (mostly another), and conventional “wisdom” I’ve known tends to dismiss horses and their activities as outdated and obsolete.
The misunderstanding is understandable: we humans have always been a few flakes short of a bale [...]
Sneaking around is the rule for horse-hunters… and it ain’t easy. As anyone who has spent time with horses knows, our silent partner is quite alert to potential lions in the flower-pots. The horse’s creed is “he who quickly runs away, lives to run another day,” and he instinctively knows his survival depends upon a good headstart.
The horse is prey and never forgets it: his motto is to ‘run away to live another day.’
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