War Horse - December 25th

I came across an interesting blog "The Hoof Blog".  The website describes itself this way:

The website is "About Hoofcare & Lameness Journal and Fran Jurga's Hoof Blog".  Hoofcare Publishing chronicles progress in the art and science of preventing, recognizing and treating lameness problems in horses. Written for and by the dedicated professionals from all fields who are at work in this rewarding pursuit, Hoofcare supports a diverse worldwide community of subscribing professionals via an award-winning journal, a website, a blog, and a source for reference books and media.

Two posts that feature the above movie "War Horse" coming out DECEMBER 25th!!  are highlighted on this blog in the below links:

November 30, 2011 "New from War Horse":  Off Screen Actors Speak on the Film (and the Horse)

Another post was done on June 29, 2011:  War Horse:  The Movie!

I know what our family will be getting in our stockings Christmas morning!  Movie tickets.

Friesians - The Movie

Now that Thanksgiving day is almost over, does that mean our Christmas list can be brought out?   I would love to find this documentary under my tree about the Friesian horse.... (click on link).  If anyone has seen this movie, please let me know what you thought of it.

I hope you all my American blog friends have had a blessed Thanksgiving!  

"Buck", the movie, "The Soul of a Horse", a book, & the Blocker Tie Ring

I really like this photo I took - it reminds me of a scene out of an old west movie.  Speaking of movies, I'm excited to see the movie "Buck" a movie that was created to "move people to make changes in how they deal with horses and life's challenges.  "HERE" is a website if you are looking for more information.  I love the b&w photos that are on the page I linked.

A book I am reading and enjoying now is "The Soul of a Horse" by Joe Camp.  He also has a blog HERE.  I find it very interesting that the common hitching post is really quite dangerous - and a simple solution could be done to correct this!  Just  saw off the ends that stick out - the horses rope or rein often gets looped around and the horse becomes fearful when he finds he has a very short rope.  In his book, Joe Camp describes how his horse pulled back in sheer panic and took out the entire post, concrete and all...

The solution... a Blocker Tie Ring.  Does anyone reading this have one or ever heard of one?  I know there are break-a-way halters, but this ring seems even better.  I can only imagine if my horse got away, it would be easier to catch him if he had a halter on...