Horse Sense

Special Edition

FAMOUS TRAKEHNERS:
What more is there to say?

TCJpart91 Amusing Noticings

HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED...?

...how your horse behaves for strangers?...and how, that behaviour is a reflection on you and will have a bearing on the effectiveness of the purpose of the visit.

 

 

 

When Tom & Henry get the regular visitors, and you might remember I won't let just anyone anywhere near either of them, they behave beautifully, and exactly as I'd expect from either personality.

 

 

Well mannered and polite, my boys are lovely to be around and amusing to.

 

Henry, of course doesn't like to stand still and is prone to an alert status whenever anything is happening around...and it needn't be close either.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom, with his usual bored expression will watch whilst Henry gets all agitated, knowing it'll be a fleeting state and he'll be fine and calm soon.  Tom approaches everything with quiet calm.

 

Working with your horses own personalities can help you achieve a pleasant working relationship when it comes to vets, farriers, teeth doctors, physios, saddle fitters etc, because you will personalise your approach and the stranger will follow your lead.

 

 

Remembering all horses, just like us, are different.  They have different motivations and interests, and knowing how to work with these will help you as a team be effective in assisting a vet for example to treat a wound or trauma where a calm and still horse will be of benefit.

 

 

Horse Sense

Horse Sense

Special Edition: Legacy

TOM & HENRY:
...and how life doesn't always work out how you imagine...


 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

Dear Jo,

When you keep Trakehners, you never quite know how your life will turn out.

On the one hand, they are superbly talented: athletic, clever, brave, fast, move like a dream...

 

...then on the other hand, they are stunningly beautiful.

 

 

So it was Tom and Henry had to choose between the usual career path of a Trakehner: dressage, showjumping, eventing, super-hacker...or to follow a different path completely, into modelling.

 

Well, everyone says it's an impossible dream, but here we are and the iconic photo of Tom & Henry is immortalised in fashion, on a front print t'shirt for M&SWoman.

 

Funny old life!

Shelley.

 

In semi-retirement from work now, Tom & Henry will have their memoirs ghost written sometime in the future and they have plans to start their own fashion line too: rugs!



TCJpart90 Painting & Fashion

RACHEL WILLIAMS DESIGN

I had a birthday card which had been designed by and artist Rachel Williams (a friend of Jess, our Junior Designer). 

 

 

 

 

 

It was the head of an Arab horse and I asked her to paint Tom & Henry.

 

I chose my favourite photo of the boys taken by John C Brown.  You will of course recognise the picture...and later on I'll let you in on a sneak preview of what else this photo got used for...

Rachel involved me in every step of the way and even painted another to exhibit as part of her degree show.

Here are a few of the sketches and working drawings, some of the final draft paintings and a final mounted piece hanging on our living room wall.

M&S WOMAN:

 ...and this photo is my screen saver at work and here's a sneak preview of the Tom & Henry tops for Autumn12 M&SWoman:

'Top' secret...xxx

...keep your eyes peeled, on-line is easiest, but be quick, I'll be buying most of them for my friends and family!!