Sad news brings today’s post, but take fifteen minutes to watch this film about the rising young South African polo player, Sbu Duma, who was murdered last week, and pay tribute to him. News via PACE Magazine and IOL News.
Category Archives: South Africa
The Myth of the Wild Zebra
The Chronicle of the Horse interviewed a Texan woman called Sammi Jo Stohler who has schooled her zebra to jump: “As I was training horses, I kept hearing, ‘You can’t train zebras, they’re untrainable.’ I said, ‘Why?’ To say something is untrainable implies that it can’t learn, and we all know that if they couldn’t …
Oddments
Sealskin will no longer be used for sporran manufacture. It’ll be ponyskin instead. Anthropologie has a very pretty catalogue full of very pretty clothes and a whole heap of pretty horses. A South African pony called Bertie kicked a pit bull in the head after it attacked his nads. Champion racemare Sariska has been retired …