Hat tip to Jesse Swan.

Italian Cavalry School at Tor di Quinto near Rome 1906

That rider is Federico Caprilli.

Hat tip to Ratak Mondosico.

Sit around on the tractor in stilettos. Fields ain’t gonna bushhog themselves!

Horse Nation mocks clueless fashion photos depicting models pretending to be equestrians posing dangerously, nonsensically, or in preposterous attire.

Members of the West Midlands Ledbury Hunt conduct a riding “Hen Do” (female-version of a bachelor party) riding over hunt territory in formal hunt attire, recorded by one of the participants wearing a helmet cam. Go, Bertie!

Hat tip to Jessie Swan.

Swiss Cavalry on patrol near the frontier, 1917.

Hat tip to Madame Scherzo.

Via Eventing Nation.

A New Brunswick couple in the business of raising racehorses left a one-year-old colt alone in his paddock. Overnight, he found his way onto the garage roof, doubtless looking for his equine friends.

They have since fenced off access to that roof.

CTV News 2:03 video

Horse and Hound:

Michaela Bowling set a new British side saddle high jump record by clearing 6ft 3in at the The National Show at Aintree on Saturday 27 July.

Riding Laughing Larry, who is blind in one eye, they were just 3in off the world record.

Michaela, a regular showjumper and former point-to-point jockey, has been riding side saddle for a while, but this was only the third time Laughing Larry has been ridden aside.

Ireland’s Susan Oakes, who broke the record last year at 5ft 11in, finished second.

King John (Sobieski) Lancers of the 20th Uhlan Regiment demonstrate old-fashioned weapons and equestrian skills.

Hat tip to Vanderleun, who captions it: “Mistaeks wur maid.”

Emily Hacker whipping for Melvin Poe’s Bath County Hounds

When I am an Old Horsewoman

I will shovel and sweat and wear hay in my hair
as if it were a jewel
And I will be an embarrassment to all
Who will not yet have found the peace in being free
to have a horse as a best friend
A friend who waits at midnight hour
With muzzle and nicker and patient eyes
For the kind of woman I will be
When I am old.

-By Patty Barnhart, originally published in The Arabian Horse World magazine in l992.

Hat tip to Bird Dog.

What would it be like to ride, just like the late Dick Francis, on one of the famous Steeplechase race courses? Jodie Skelton’s helmet camera gives the viewer something close to the rider’s point of view. This race course looked to me like a tough version of an American Eventing course. The comments refer to “a bit of a slap off the ground,” meaning the footage even includes a fall. Ouch!

Via Siobhan English.