Bridlepath gets reviewed!

You can read the review at Bloggeries. I thought the comment about too many links in the blogroll was a fair one; I’ve turfed out a fair few already. Does it really look that funky in Internet Explorer? Usually I blog from my Mac, and when I’m on the PC I use Firefox. (Seriously, what the hell? Are people still using IE?!)

Rodney

Rodney needs a sponsor, and I’d say he deserves one, considering he’s 43 years old. Meet Rodney and his friends at Horse Rescue Ramblings.

Hoof Hearted

I’ve always wondered if someone’s young son named this horse.

Horsefeathers

I am a complete and utter word geek, and as such I am a huge fan of Michael Quinion’s site World Wide Words (the weekly newsletter just popped into my inbox, as a matter of fact). He can tell us, among other things, where the word “horsefeathers” comes from; did you know that its first recorded use was in 1927?

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Order Perissodactyla

Tommie Turvey and Poker Joe, originally uploaded by Ride n’ Fast &Take n’ Chances.

The members of the order of Perissodactyla all have an odd number of toes on their hooves, which make them ideal hatstands. Learn more about horses’ relatives at Animal of the Day. Don’t say I never tried to teach ya nuthin’.

(Btw, is anyone else dying to run over and give that horse a belly rub? Check out the look on his face; he certainly seems as if he deserves one, doesn’t he?)

Blue eye

Blue eye, originally uploaded by ObedientMuse.

What we love, we shall grow to resemble. – Bernard of Clairvaux

Horses on coins: Bosnia & Herzegovina

Still searching for a gift for that horse lover or numismatist on your list? They’d probably love one of these beautiful uncirculated issues (the other designs: English hack, and Lipizzaner).

No action taken on Horse Protection Act

Tennessee Walking Horse Museum, originally uploaded by Full Circle.

Congress failed to address an effort to amend the Horse Protection Act before adjourning last week.

Prompted by disagreements this year between federal agriculture inspectors and members of the Tennessee walking horse industry, former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., in September asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a clarification of the act. Read the rest here

The amendment would have helped prevent this from happening; let’s see what the New Year will bring.

Horse headbutt cures blindness

From BoingBoing:

A veteran who was blinded in one eye by shrapnel in 1942 has seemingly been cured by My Buddy Chimo, a race horse who head-butted him. According to an ophthalmologist, the impact might have reset a dislocated lens. The man, Don Karkos, was hit by the horse while collaring him at the Monticello Raceway in New York.

Much better than this, any day.