Transylvanian horsemantag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-3471862008-07-03T14:57:21+01:00From a Transylvanian mountain village to the chalk downlands of Oxfordshire. TypePadNewstag:typepad.com,2003:post-522039042008-07-03T14:57:21+01:002008-07-03T22:36:39+01:00I have to make an announcement. This will come as a surprise to most readers. Over the past days, I have been posting archived material. This material has been true enough. The two horses have been transitioned to barefoot. However,...TransylvanianhorsemanOutdoor reflectionstag:typepad.com,2003:post-520853462008-06-30T22:23:57+01:002008-07-03T14:58:08+01:00Danielle and I made a trip a couple of miles north to Wittenham Clumps, two low tree-crowned hills that stand out above the pastoral valley of the upper Thames. One bears the ring ditches of an Iron Age fort. Both...TransylvanianhorsemanMore on horse caretag:typepad.com,2003:post-520274322008-06-29T20:10:30+01:002008-06-30T22:59:02+01:00Borium, I have realised over the past couple of months, was a bad idea so far as my horses were concerned. We used borium for two seasons as a means to extend shoe life, on the advice of a farrier...TransylvanianhorsemanGypsy cobstag:typepad.com,2003:post-520078642008-06-28T20:46:37+01:002008-06-30T23:14:27+01:00Funder asked about Gypsy Cobs, also called Gypsy Vanner Horses. Nowadays in Britain these horses seem quite popular, and several fields in my neighbourhood contain one. Another field about ten miles away must belong to a dealer or breeder since...TransylvanianhorsemanInterludetag:typepad.com,2003:post-519647782008-06-27T23:11:26+01:002008-06-30T23:23:00+01:00I've been busy with job interviews. Since I really do need to concentrate on this, posting has taken a back seat. Fortunately there are several good jobs on offer in London in my old speciality area of transportation engineering. The...TransylvanianhorsemanSaddles and straightnesstag:typepad.com,2003:post-517461902008-06-23T22:09:29+01:002008-06-28T23:05:43+01:00I am very pleased with the way that chiropractic care has straightened my back. One result is the even sweat marks on the horses' backs when I ride. Here are two photos of Doru's back. Some research turned up the...TransylvanianhorsemanMongol: a report on the filmtag:typepad.com,2003:post-516681742008-06-21T20:58:28+01:002008-06-30T03:21:59+01:00I have to admit a certain ambivalent towards the historical figure who launched two and a half centuries of global conquest (1207-1472), causing the deaths of an estimated thirty to sixty million people - ten to twenty percent of the...TransylvanianhorsemanMore nomad horsementag:typepad.com,2003:post-516450462008-06-20T19:17:55+01:002008-06-21T21:25:18+01:00Tonight's post is brief, since I am going out to see the film Mongol. This will be obliquely appropriate viewing since today is the anniverary of the Battle of Chalons, when that other famous nomadic equestrian barbarian, Attila the Hun,...TransylvanianhorsemanThe gift of fluencytag:typepad.com,2003:post-515977022008-06-19T22:50:13+01:002008-06-21T21:33:12+01:00I've spent some pleasant hours over the past few days exercising Doru and acclimatising him to barefoot work. I've spent some time thinking too about recent posts and the fascinating responses received: thank you to each reader who commented. Something...TransylvanianhorsemanAkhal-Teke encountertag:typepad.com,2003:post-515282342008-06-18T21:16:28+01:002008-06-27T10:57:21+01:00Thanks to my good friend and several times visitor to Transylvania, Mrs Elizabeth Barrett, Danielle and I visited an Akhal Teke breeder this afternoon. We arrived after an hour's cross-country drive, through verdant countryside and some achingly beautiful villages. The...Transylvanianhorseman