If you are a horse owner, one of the main things you have to get your horses use to is traveling in a horse trailer. Your horse may only have to travel in a horse trailer a hand full of times during its life. Your horse may need to be evacuated or taken to the nearest vet hospital for an emergency or you just need to move your horse from one home to another.
Having your horse able to load into a trailer should you have to evacuate your horse due to flood or fire will save that horse’s life. If your horse will not load, often rescuers will be forced to leave the horse. The same is true if you decide to sell your horse and the horse will not load into the new owners trailer. You will probably not be able to sell your horse.
Something else you should keep in mind when you are trailering your horse is that if your truck breaks down not all roadside assistance clubs will cover your horse trailer. I know that they will have the truck towed but will leave the horse trailer with your horse in it. I should know because that happened to me once. Traveling on the way back home from a horse show, our truck broke down. Triple A had the truck towed but would not touch the horse trailer with 2 horses in it. Thank goodness we were only 4 miles from home and I called a neighbor who had a truck and he came and got the horse trailer with the horses. I was only lucky that the break down happened after we go off the freeway and not on it.
Before towing your horses, please practice how to maneuver your rig before putting your horses in it. Learn how to properly load a horse and what safety procedures you need to know. There are certain steps to take as to how to tie a horse and when to tie a horse in a horse trailer, learn them.
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I have always appreciated the animal trainers the people that work with the animals on the sets of the movies. I also like to find out what happened to many of those animals after filming has finished. I would hope that most of the animals went on to happy homes but occasionally some animals don’t. It was nice to see that the horses from the movies, Lord of the Rings were among those that are fortunate. The movie Lord of the Rings had a wonderful behind the scenes look at the horses involved with the movie and what happened to them after they finished filming. Below is an excerpt of that feature.
It was really nice to find out that the horses did not just go to an auction sale but instead ended up with the people who cared for them and spent almost a year with them.
Some of the most spectacular scenes from the Rings series of movies involve Shadowfax the gray horse that Gandalf rides. The training that went into the portraying of Shadowfax was truly amazing. How many of you can remember the scene where Gandalf whistles for the horse and Shadowfax makes his entrance? Andalusian horses portrayed Shadowfax in the movies.
Even though the movies rarely mentioned the names of all of the horses in the Rings series, the books not only mention them but each horses’ history. It was nice to see that the importance of the horses in the books was translated nicely to the big screen.
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The World Equestrian Games will be broadcast on NBC this coming Sunday. Will you be watching? I know I will. It is not very often that horse sports are broadcast on TV. I am not including the 5 major horse racing broadcasts because they are betting related and I won’t get into that right now.
So what does the World Games include? They have pretty much the same events as the Olympics does with the addition of the driving events. If you want to get more familiar with what goes on you can play a virtual PC game that is geared toward not only competing in cross-country and jumping but in training your horse for the competition. Yes there is one and it does not have Barbie anywhere in sight. It is called “The Equestrian” and I have not seen it on sale off of the internet.
The game has the following features and levels:
Complete career mode with training and competitions in the 3 events 30 jumping courses, 18 cross courses and 13 dressage programs : Large number of horses and horse robe to choose from : More than 25 training programs and 3 levels of competition - Regional, national and international : Personalized training program so you get organized.
I personally would like to see a horseback riding game come out for the Wii, I can only imagine how that would work out…….LOL
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