Let’s go for it
Corona or no Corona, whartever it takes , we go for it Groundwork stays the base for teaching and training horses We can see the new apprentice : Frosti First lesson : stay foot when they approach you
Category: horses
Visiting the horses at Heide
The horses are running free in the vast area of the reservation of Heide. They seem very at ease. The weight , which could surcumscribed as ‘too muc’, is disappearing and giving way to muscles A healthy meal , quite some fitness and all this in the marvellous nature at Heide
Contributing to nature preservation
A couple of our horses are going to the nature reserve in Kalmthout. It borders with the Netherlands. The preservation of the landscape is maintained by letting sheep, cows and ICELANDIC horses forage the fields.
The gallop
The gallop is very much like the canter, except that it is faster, more ground-covering, and the three-beat canter changes to a four-beat gait. It is the fastest gait of the horse, averaging about 40 to 48 kilometres per hour (25 to 30 mph), and in the wild is used when the animal needs to …
The trot
The trot is a two-beat diagonal gait of the horse where the diagonal pairs of legs move forward at the same time with a moment of suspension between each beat. It has a wide variation in possible speeds, but averages about 13 kilometres per hour (8.1 mph). A very slow trot is sometimes referred to as …