The Heartland Horse

13/07/2022

One of the greatest quarter-mile horses in all history had a typically American “rags to riches” career. Read the story of Joe Hancock ➡️ www.aqha.com/-/the-story-of-joe-hancock

15/06/2022

Lesson plans, activities, worksheets, and more!

25/05/2022

Cowboy Books for Kids

21/04/2022

30/03/2022

30/03/2022

Let them be horses.

Turn them out, let them run.
Let them buck, let them leap, rather in the field than the arena, right?

Give them a herd, even a herd of two.
Let them be with other horses, what’s a life without friends?

Give them downtime, not just days off riding, but days to enjoy life.
Happy horses are trainable horses.

Take the rug off, let them feel the sun.
Let them roll in the mud, a little dirt never hurt anyone.

Escape the arena and explore, don’t stick to the well worn path.
The most beautiful places are usually found by accident.

Showing them how much you love them doesn’t have to come from buying expensive things.

You can buy every rug, all the boots, the best tack, wash them, groom them, feed them, put them in the best yard, with the best facilities and wrap them up in cotton wool, but one day you’ll realise the best thing you could possibly do...
.. is just let them be horses.

Side Note: These are our Founder's 5 rescued geldings - 3 mustangs, a paint & a QH ❤️

16/03/2022

Don’t forget to mark your calendars to come out on May 14, 2022 for our 11th Annual Blaze’s Ride to the Rescue Trainers Challenge. We have a lot of great horses that will be available for adoption. You can plan a day of shopping with many vendors that plan to join, visit the food truck and so much more!

03/03/2022

Foal slippers.
This image depicts the soft, rubbery tissue (known as a capsule) that covers the hard hoof of the foal at birth. This is nature’s way of protecting the mare’s uterus and birth canal during pregnancy and foaling.
Once the foal is standing, the capsule wears off quickly, exposing the hard hoof beneath.
Another reminder of nature’s incredible beauty. 💙

26/02/2022

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22/02/2022

And what a fine art it is! Dana's Doodles

09/02/2022

Today, we are talking about MOTIVATION, particularly when it comes to horses who are more reluctant to move. To be motivated, you have to feel that there's a...

09/02/2022

When you want to please a client with absolutely magical winter photos, but you own a mare....🙄🥴😅
Knot Just Rope
Rhythm-n-Beads
Nika Nagel Poland

04/02/2022

Mares aren’t always well liked and for the same reasons strong women aren’t.

Opinionated? Those opinions are not without good cause and maybe you can't figure them out or maybe you just don’t like her opinion of you. Change it and she will always be on your side.

Stubborn? She just won’t let you bulldoze her. Treat her with respect and her resilience will be an asset to you.

Difficult? You just can’t handle her. You don’t have what it takes.

Stick with geldings then, and leave the mare for someone who understands her and appreciates the same qualities society has subtlety taught you not to like.

Here’s to mares, to strong women, and to those who CAN and DO appreciate them!

~ The Evolving Equestrian

02/02/2022

14/01/2022

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13/01/2022

The truth of this made me laugh

12/01/2022

19/12/2021

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image from blabster.com

19/11/2021

Best advice out there.😪

Originally written by Carrie Terroux-Barrett in 2019. It never seems to change.😪

So you think it's safe to rehome your old horse? Nearly every emaciated senior we get eventually has a previous owner contact us just shocked at how their horse ended up. They gave their senior away to a loving home with kids. Now a year or two later it's fighting for it's life from neglect and starvation. Truth is, the safest place for your old horse is with you. Period. Can't keep it for whatever reason? PUT IT DOWN. Save it a slow miserable death with strangers. And yes, the slow starvation of an old horse is painful and cruel. This isn't your great aunt in a nursing home with medical care and medication, this is a horse who's eventually going to start breaking down it's own organs just to stay alive. It's not pretty, and it's not natural. In the wild it would be killed by predators or a storm long before it's heart stopped. It never fails, every day someone sends me a listing for an old horse with "lots of life left". You know how many seniors I find great forever homes for? Not very many. Everyone wants a horse under 20. And the ones willing to take a senior are often shocked at the cost to maintain a horse over 25. All I see when I look at those listings is a walking skeletonat at a sale barn or a sheriff calling me about an emaciated old horse someone doesn't want in the next 12 to 24 months. Stop kidding yourselves that someone is going up care for your old horse. 9 times out of 10 they won't. Let it die fat, happy, safe, and with YOU. Bernadette was a free kid's horse, given away. Turned out well right? Moses was at a gymkhana last summer doing leadline, his owner a self professed trainer and rescuer. Again story book ending. Lily, a champion endurance horse given to a family for a special needs boy... came to us 2 years later a bcs of 1 and was said to be blind and crazy (she was neither). I can go on... twenty stories come to mind. Even an old horse we offered to take, who's owner sent it instead to a kid's camp in the mountains... we didn't get that one in time she died the day we picked her up. Owner was shocked. How could this happen? Well it happened because you gave away your old horse. So stop it. Right now. Can't afford to put it down? Call me. We will help. But for the sake of your horse, don't give your old horses away!

07/11/2021

Simply Majestic 😍🦄
By 📷Jeni Jo Photography

03/11/2021

Shared from Vanessa Hancox

02/11/2021

This Oklahoma cowboy is 5-10, 220 … Wife, Megan; daughter Chaney Marie … Father, Sam, was a two-time Wrangler NFR qualifier (1987-88), a three-time RAM Prairie Circuit Finals Rodeo champion (1986-87, 1994) and was the 1986 Prairie Circuit year-end champion; mother, Tami; sister, Kadee … Great-uncle Roy Duvall was a three-time world champion steer wrestler (1967, 1969, 1972) who qualified for the Wrangler NFR an event-record 24 times; uncle Spud Duvall twice qualified for the Wrangler NFR (2001, 2004) and cousin Tom Duvall also was a two-time Wrangler NFR qualifier (1996-97); grandfather, Bill Duvall, hazed for both Roy Duvall and Ote Berry at the NFR … Identifies Roy Duvall as his rodeo idol … Competed in baseball, football and basketball until about the eighth grade before concentrating on rodeo … Graduated from Checotah (Okla.) High School in a class of 102 … Favorite sports team is the New York Yankees … Favorite food is steak

25/09/2021

28/08/2021

A rare foal was born three years ago which made an internet hit and we thought to bring it back again to appreciate God’s creation. It was like love at first sight for all horse lovers as this beautiful foal had a unique work of art on its back.

20/08/2021

Garrett Yerigan is on the rise as a rodeo announcer. He just finished his first year announcing the Rodeo. He's heavily involved with the sport, and it shows. PRCA ProRodeohttp://www.twistedrodeo.com/2021/08/20/yerigan-found-his-true-calling/ Cinch Jeans International Professional Rodeo Association