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Whoa Means Whoa!! New Book Now Available
A new book to teach you how to ride effectively and safely from day one to day one thousand. Excellent exercises to test your skills as a rider and your horse’s training. Beautiful illustrations by Mary Bridgman and photographs demonstrating clearly how to ride better. Order Whoa Means Whoa! from Blurb now.
Levi-Small Large Welsh X Pony For Sale
Levi is a confident bold jumper, he has a motor, great personality,
loves cross country, uncomplicated to ride, super event, dressage or hunter prospect.
Learning to Ride
Learning to ride at Windrock Farm
sometimes hanging out with Webster is the best thing to do on a sunny afternoon….
Rules to Ride By
go slowly to go fast
patience, patience, patience
take one step at at time
Ride bareback to improve your balance
(excerpted from the new book Whoa Means Whoa! available soon)
Tony the Tiger
Tony is coming to Windrock Farm in April. He is a 10 year old talented pony with a great personality and temperament. He is very smart and is very comfortable to ride.
Congratulations to Estella and Shadow!
Happy Birthday Estella, and congratulations on your new pony!!!
Darby Finds a New Home
One of our favorite ponies found a new home and is having a great time in the parade with his new owner. Congratulations!
Teaching Kids to Ride with Confidence
Diego has no fear of horses because he is growing up around them and loves to sit on the biggest horses in the barn. Fiona is riding Peadar who is a kind gentle horse and Simon is on Shadow, with Lauren giving him some pointers.
Breaking News from the BBC
Horse genome unlocked by science
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The genome of a domestic horse has been successfully sequenced by an international team of researchers.
The work, published in the journal Science, may shed light on how horses were domesticated.
It also reveals similarities between the horse and other placental mammals, such as bovids – the hoofed group including goats, bison and cattle.
The authors also found horses share much of their DNA with humans, which could have implications for medicine.
Horses suffer from more than 90 hereditary diseases that show similarities to those in humans.
“Horses and humans suffer from similar illnesses, so identifying the genetic culprits in horses promises to deepen our knowledge of disease in both organisms,” said co-author Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, from the Broad Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, US.
“The horse genome sequence is a key enabling resource toward this goal.”
To generate a high-quality genome sequence, the researchers analysed DNA from an adult female thoroughbred named Twilight.
The horse’s DNA was sequenced using capillary DNA sequencing technology (known as Sanger sequencing) to reveal a genome that is roughly 2.7 billion “letters”, or nucleotides, in size.
In addition to sequencing the genome of a thoroughbred horse, the researchers also examined DNA from a variety of other horse breeds.
These included the American quarter horse, Andalusian, Arabian, Belgian draft horse, Hanoverian, Hakkaido, Icelandic horse, Norwegian fjord horse, and Standardbred breeds.
The team surveyed the extent of genetic variation both within and across breeds to create a catalogue of more than one million single-letter genetic differences in these breeds.
This is slightly larger than the genome of the domestic dog, and smaller than both the human and cow genomes.
So far, scientists have also sequenced the genomes of the platypus, mouse, rat, chimpanzee, rhesus macaque and, of course, human.
Horses were first domesticated 4,000 to 6,000 years ago. Over time, as machines have become the chief sources of agricultural and industrial muscle, those roles have shifted to sport and recreational activities.