About
Despite owning a horse as a teenager, I’ve never grown out of the “I want a pony” stage.
The Super Saint was a once-in-a-lifetime horse and I still can’t believe I was lucky enough to own him. He gave me a great foundation and I went off to college feeling like a superstar. Unfortunately for me, college was a series of riding- and non-riding injuries, and afterward I took a couple years off riding to allow myself to fully heal. Although this worked in theory, by the time I got back on a horse, I discovered I’d developed a huge and not entirely rational fear of jumping.
Such is life. I always liked dressage better, anyway. As a friend pointed out, it allows me to indulge my inner perfectionist.
Now I’m working on relearning everything that seemed so effortless on the Super Saint. This blog is ostensibly a progress journal, but I ramble sometimes.
The text and gallery sections are part of a project I’ve been interested in working on for a long time. I’m interested in the way horses are depicted in art and literature, and by building these two databases I hope to start discovering some common (or exceptional) themes, tropes, metaphors, etc. I also hope the collections will serve as an educational reference for others who are trying to find horse-related works.
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Rearing Horse
Leonardo DaVinci
Random Text
The Rider at the Gate
A windy night was blowing on Rome,
The cressets guttered on Caesar’s home,
The fish-boats, moored at the bridge, were breaking
The rush of the river to yellow foam.
The hinges whined to the shutters shaking,
When clip-clop-clep came a horse-hoof raking
The stones of the road at Caesar’s gate;
The spear-butts jarred at the guard’s awaking.
“Who goes there?” said the guard at the gate.
“What is the news, that you ride so late?”
“News most pressing, that must be spoken
To Caesar
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