Equestrian For Life🐴💞

Because happy Michi also makes me happy

Two days ago my worst nightmare happened. Sunday 7/24/16 I loaned my horse, Cali, out to a friend for a rodeo drill team practice as a back up. I was working so she and her boyfriend came and picked Cali up and were driving an hour and a half away to practice. On the way there, a driver ran a stop sign going very fast and smacked into the side of their truck, on my friend’s side. This caused the trailer to disconnect from the truck, break the tow chains, and flip over. To get the horses out (Cali and my friend’s horse Tucker) crews had to cut the top of the horse trailer off. They had to use the jaws of life to get my friend out of the truck. She was life-flighted to the nearest hospital. She has fractures in her upper back, and a lot of cuts and bruises and her boyfriend broke his wrist and cut his hand. As for the other car, the driver was air lifted to another hospital and his passenger died on impact. Our horses were seen on sight by a vet and then emergency transported to Oregon State University Vet Hospital to be treated. Both horses have lacerations on their right hind legs, in places they go down to the joint. Cali had to have surgery for that and an 8 inch laceration on her stomach that is prone to a hernia. The tendons and joints aside from being exposed look in-tact, and if everything goes well and without infection, she may only come out of this with concern for arthritis in her joints. So all we can do is hope for the best.  

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Michael Jung and SAM at home (x)

Michael Jung and SAM (x)

the truest message i’ve ever received

Look at those pufflenoses go!

Cheerleaders vs Basketball players; Qh Reiners vs Hunters

So @eddylads just posted about this on Twitter, and I did some research and knew I had to share cause it’s about the coolest thing to happen to the Horse world in a while (maybe ever). There is this new company called @equisenseapp that is creating a cell phone app for rider’s phones. You place the devise on your horses girth and it sends information to your phone via Bluetooth. Such information includes your horses symmetry (favoring one side can be a sign of lameness), stride length, jump trajectory, speed, and time spent on each lead. It also automatically stores your ride history for each day and owners can even include information pertinent to the horses medical care. Like seriously this app sounds so amazing - if you want to learn more you can follow @equisenseapp on insta and I suggest you visit their website. They have a Kickstarter going up on November 4 so I will definitely post again then, cause I definitely want one! Who else is super pumped about this?

Emma (via sit2beats)