Equus’ Birthday… : Equus Education

Now, I’m not referring to the equine birthday that for the Southern Hemisphere I know to be the first of August and for the Northern Hemisphere to be January first but rather for the birth of this website which was April 6th, 2006.

The blog has had nearly 7,000 visitors over this time and thanks to all who keep coming back and leaving comments on possible improvements, suggestions or just how you can relate to a post!

I’m still working to cover at least 100 different vocations in posts on this site and will shortly have the Vocation 100 page up and running.

If there’s a discipline or possibility of working with horses that you feel should be on here but isn’t as yet, let me know.

I’d also love to hear if there’s a particular ‘equine personality’ that you feel should be featured on Profile On :D.

Horses are such a gorgeous animal and I’m convinced it’s possible to make a career and lifetime full of experiences from them. Some of the things I’ve seen on account of traveling for and because of horses are pictured in this post.

Top right is my gelding Pride while I was living at Larneuk Stud during the 2007 breeding season; second is a picture of one of the many gorgeous horse pieces positioned all around the Living Horse Museum (Musee Vivant du Cheval) planted beside Chantilly Racecourse in France and to the right is one of the many stallions I saw while touring a number of horse studs in Ireland as part of the Irish National Stud Course.

Left is the outdoor menage at the Living Horse Museum, used (weather permitting) for dressage performances and training sessions as demonstrations to the large number of tourists that go through the premises each year.