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 PonyBox News Trending This article serves to handle that one part of every dressage test that I – and most riders I know – dread with all our hearts. I’m sure you know the feeling. The stunning rhythmic trot, the perfect square halt (And here ...
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Tenerife is part of the Canary Islands off the coast of Spain and is a popular tourist destination. Unfortunately, the horses of Tenerife rarely benefit from this thriving industry and many are neglected, unhealthy and malnourished. ...
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Bergen County Horse Rescue is located near Mahwah, New Jersey. Recently, the rescue was the subject of a film short produced through Sony I Alpha Universe. While many of the viewers will be analyzing the quality of the film, the rest of us can appreciate the touching and familiar ...
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Covid-19 is taking its toll on so many businesses and individuals. One rescue stable in British Columbia, Canada, fears that they are running out of time to save 30 horses and ponies, many of which could be sent to slaughter. The owner is unable to keep them, and the rescue is al ...
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As of January 1, 2020, the carriage trade came to an end. As a result, the calache horses were given other jobs, or retired. One organization, A Horse Tales Rescue is providing homes for former carriage trade horses, helping them transition from work to retirement. ...
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Just a few months after the harvest of the 2019 crop, and many months before the first hay crops of 2020 are brought in horse owners in western Canada are running into shortages. While other areas have struggled with drought, some areas received above average rain that made it di ...
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In horses the extra appendage is called a supernumerary digit, and it grows off the splint bone on both front or hind legs. There may be four supernumerary digits, there may be only one, or a partial digit. The splint bone is a small bone that runs alongside of the canon bones. T ...
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Have you ever dreamed of spending all day riding horses? There are a few jobs out there that might suit you. Whatever career on horse back you pursue, be prepared to work long hard hours, and some aspects of these are decidedly unglamorous. But, if you’re prepared to spend long h ...
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In North America at least, stories from the California fires are dominating news feed. With dozens of human fatalities and many more missing and unaccounted for, thousands of homes and other buildings burned and over 200,000 acres destroyed, there are fears that more will be lost ...
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So many news stories appear on feeds that just leave you shaking your head. Thieves, abusers and bad choices deserve large helpings of fresh horse buns. But, there are stories that help renew your faith that not everything is awful. Sweet feed to those good people that just go on ...
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In 2009 I was around thirteen years old when my trainer brought a rescue Morgan mare named Mariposa. She lived mostly isolated in a stall for seven years with minimal human contact. Mariposa was a below average size for a Morgan at about 14 hands and rightfully so, was terrified ...
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I really am a soft touch for a pretty face and the sight of a little grey Arabian gelding looking over the wall of an auction pen was more than I could resist. I didn’t buy him for any other reason than he really needed a good home. He was too small for me to ride, and my daughte ...
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You get the feeling that despite legislation that should have wiped out horse slaughter in the U.S., the issue never really seems to go away. Most of you know that back in 2007 rules were changed so that there was no funding for slaughter plants to have horses inspected by govern ...
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We often see headlines about horses being rescued from perilous situations by emergency response teams. EMTs are the front line for most emergencies and in rural areas, they not only rescue people, but animals too. Firefighters might find themselves evacuating dairy cattle from ...
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Have you ever wanted to rescue horses? I’ve rescued a few. I bought them at an auction, brought them home, made sure they were healthy and found them a new owner or kept them for myself. Most horse owners with the means to do so have done something similar. But if you want to run ...
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The site of the plowing match I attended is now an open field, and the little village that expanded to a population of over a 100,000 has now settled back to fifty. But it will take a few years before the site has recovered, thanks to something called ‘soil compaction’, caused by ...
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20th Feb 2014 |
Horse Stories |
PonyBox
Ask any horse owner and they can most likely recite in detail a story of an abused or malnourished horse. Over the years many of these stories have been shared on PonyBox. In most cases, the horse is rehabilitated and regains a sustainable quality of life. However, some are rescu ...
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Winter can present some challenges when it comes to keeping your horse groomed. If you've got a grey, palomino, cremello or pinto or any other white or pale colored horse, you might not recognize your horse until spring, because manure stains, mud and other grime can turn your ho ...
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Its your worst nightmare when you discover horses in need of rescue. My uncle recently looked at two horses in desperate need that the owner was trying to sell. My uncle immediately bought the horses and ran to the feed store along with calling the vet as soon as they were home. ...
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He was almost blind, shaggy, mud-caked, skittish, and terrified. his pasture buddies were a nasty pony and ancient goat. Looking through the bars on his stall I could not believe that the horse looking back at me had once been the fastest racehorse in western Pennsylvania. ...
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About eight months ago I submitted a news article called Dream horse Stables Horse Sim Game. I just wanted to let everyone know how things are going eight months later.
After the article was posted on Ponybox.com about Dream Horse Stables I got about thirty or so new members b ...
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Two weeks ago I heard a lot of crying, and a lot of whispering. But I never saw what anyone and no one ever came to feed me, or give me water. I peered through the bars into the stall next to me. Maze was looking worse. She was lying down and not moving much. I nickered softly tr ...
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With the closing of the Slaughterhouses in 2007 many say that it is one of the best things that could have happened while others claim that it has caused a serious rise in the number of unwanted, abused and neglected horses, as well as the drop in horse prices in the United State ...
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19th Jan 2011 |
Horse Fiction |
Brezie
The large gray Thoroughbred breezed along the inside fence. His jockey whipped him to many times to count. The jockey slowed the horse at the 3/4 mile pole and pulled him to a stop by the trainer and owner.
"He won't run, Mr. Gray," the jockey said settling the frisky horse.
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Narrow was born on a family owned ranch. He was trained to be ridden and sold when he was two to a jumping academy. He was trained to jump and was an amazing jumper, who won many ribbons, prizes and hearts. One day in a show when Narrow was five he missed the last jump falling co ...
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14th Nov 2010 |
Horse Stories |
Seri
As you guys read in my last article, The Five Dollar Horse, I bought Mohani from his previous owner for five dollars and set out on a mission. That mission was to turn that poor stallion’s life around and to give him a chance to live it the way he was meant to the entire time.
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10th Nov 2010 |
Horse Stories |
Monte
My mother nodded, we adopted him. He was skinny, scared and trusted no humans. People tried to get him in our trailer, whipping him and pulling him, I watched with tears running down my cheeks. After 2 hours of trying and watching, I stepped on the side of the trailer and called ...
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Wyatt flinched as he heard the filly’s hooves clatter against the sides of the trailer. A second later, he heard her fall down hard. He shook his head. This wasn’t good. A filly who couldn’t stand was dead. When he heard her stop kicking, he was alarmed. Had she been hurt in the ...
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This spring my sister outgrew her as well and so home came Maddie. We planned to keep Honey, but after Maddie was sent to training Honey poked her eye on something. She had a previous eye injury so we think it was bothering her and subsequently rubbed it on something and poked it ...
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Total shock had overcome me as Aunt Esther walked toward me with this beautiful paint in hand and when she got to me, lifted my hand to place the reins in it. My jaw had dropped, but I was still mute to much surprise of my parents as they thought I’d be running around yelling in ...
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24th Jul 2010 |
Horse Stories |
caba123
This is the story of my horse Caba. One day me and my dad were driving home from my last home-schooling class and we saw a man abusing his horse. She was a lovley, wilted haflinger and you could see the sorrow in her eyes. It made my heart hurt so much. My dad being the cowboy th ...
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