Yesterday Kelly rode El Rosio, a fifteen year old Baca stallion. El Rosio has a kind, good heart and came to us with minimal handling. Never saddled, never ridden, etc. His only training was to have spent his life basked in love and respect.
Kelly has a kind,good heart and came to us with no experience in natural horsemanship and minimal experience with horses. Their mutual lack of experience and kind, good hearts made them a perfect match and exactly the kind of match that the established horse world would run from like they were on fire
The established horse world would have little use for El Rosio or Kelly. They cannot squeeze any money out of either one of them so that renders each without value.
Lot of wonderful things around this morning on Facebook about El Rosio and Kelly--the most important was the comment that we need places like our horse lot "everywhere". And there is no reason that there can't be.
We are neither magicians nor rocket scientists. What we do can be replicted by anyone who cares enough about kids and horses to learn natural horsemanship and put it into practice.
The unfortunate reality is that the most important step in getting things done is that one must utterly reject the values and judgements of the established horse world. One cannot cater to or compromise with that world.
It is a world that equates the value of a horse with how much cash it can put on one's corporate books.
Poor fools.
The value of a horse is how much credit it can put on one's book of life.
(Kelly on El Rosio yesterday with Samantha proudly watching both.)
1 comment:
Another GREAT blog and a great milestone, for both horse and rider!!! My favorite is the look of happiness and accomplishment on both El Rosio & Kelly's faces in the later photos!
~Alicia
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