http://www.thetackroom.com.au/ You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl. I have brought the country to the city with a hot stable, the sweet smell of straw and molasses, and horse ownership in a concrete forest. This is horses in Sydney's CBD, so welcome to The Tack Room... en Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:07:00 GMT Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:07:00 GMT info@thetackroom.com.au info@thetackroom.com.au http://www.thetackroom.com.au/retiring-from-orble/ All good things come to an end I guess. I'd like to add this little post to say I will no longer be writing The Tack Room any longer. I... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/retiring-from-orble/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/retiring-from-orble/ Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:07:00 GMT http://www.thetackroom.com.au/man-o-war/ "There never lived a horse that was more horse than he that afternoon. He was so beautiful that it almost made you cry, and so full of fire he made... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/man-o-war/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/man-o-war/ Tue, 08 May 2007 03:19:00 GMT http://www.thetackroom.com.au/are-the-faces-of-fortune-changing-for-horses/ Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty" wrap="1" title="" margin="5"]It all started with a novel that became a classic, or at least that's what they say. Not that there weren't good... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/are-the-faces-of-fortune-changing-for-horses/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/are-the-faces-of-fortune-changing-for-horses/ Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:00:00 GMT http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-great-horse-books/ Equestrian books gather creases and dust in the lives of most riders. Like shoes you simply cannot have too many. Each delivers new evidence of your need for horses; each... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-great-horse-books/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-great-horse-books/ Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:09:00 GMT http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-great-horses-of-history/ The great horses of history... let me count them. Let me define what it means to be great. Let me count the Melbourne Cups, or measure the highest jump, the... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-great-horses-of-history/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-great-horses-of-history/ Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:55:00 GMT http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-1949-equestrian-high-jumping-record/ How is it that old records stand tallest... In 1890 Carbine set the weight carrying record for the Melbourne Cup with 10st5 and in 115 of years of racing since... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-1949-equestrian-high-jumping-record/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-1949-equestrian-high-jumping-record/ Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:22:00 GMT http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-feats-of-many-world-records-set-by-horses/ In 1921 a horse called Humorist won the Derby, England's jewel in the racing crown, and was dead three weeks later. An autopsy allegedly revealed the horse had only one... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-feats-of-many-world-records-set-by-horses/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-feats-of-many-world-records-set-by-horses/ Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:56:00 GMT http://www.thetackroom.com.au/horse-ownership-made-illegal/ A movie happened itself upon me last weekend. Children of Men tells an insightful tale of the world mid-this century where women are infertile and the degeneration of society is... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/horse-ownership-made-illegal/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/horse-ownership-made-illegal/ Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:26:00 GMT http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-drought-takes-hold-of-horse-ownership-in-sydney/ Owning a horse in the concrete jungle no longer removes the worry of drought conditions" wrap="1" margin="5" title=""]Early in the 1990s a trend developed in urban areas of the UK... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-drought-takes-hold-of-horse-ownership-in-sydney/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-drought-takes-hold-of-horse-ownership-in-sydney/ Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:03:00 GMT http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-world-equestrian-games/ Capacity crowds for the WEG" wrap="1" margin="5" title=""]It swallowed up 39.3 million euros and hosted 61 nations and 852 horses. There were 570,000 spectators and Australia didn't even notice. How... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-world-equestrian-games/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-world-equestrian-games/ Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:31:00 GMT http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-man-and-the-horse/ A wise man of Hibernia once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets - the girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-man-and-the-horse/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-man-and-the-horse/ Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:31:00 GMT http://www.thetackroom.com.au/women-and-their-horses-ii/ Actress Bo Derek, pictured here with one of her dark charges, has caught the attention of every male and female eye. A man's imagination begins to move quicker than the... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/women-and-their-horses-ii/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/women-and-their-horses-ii/ Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:39:00 GMT http://www.thetackroom.com.au/women-and-their-horses/ If I run my hands along my horse's body and wait for him to listen, he always does. I watch his ears following and his eyes go still, and if... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/women-and-their-horses/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/women-and-their-horses/ Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:59:00 GMT http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-horses-of-the-air/ The Capriole" wrap="0" margin="5" title=""] Define the stunt that is performed by the horse. Is it the launch through glass, the dash through open flames, or the falling horse? I... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-horses-of-the-air/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-horses-of-the-air/ Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:40:00 GMT http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-movie-horses/ Daredevil in Sleepy Hollow (1999)" wrap="0" margin="5" title=""] Horses don't make a fortune for themselves on the silver screen, but that isn't to say that some of them are not... http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-movie-horses/#comments http://www.thetackroom.com.au/the-movie-horses/ Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:35:00 GMT