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The Tack Room - October 2006

Women and their Horses

October 14th 2006 16:59

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 I press my face against his I can feel a channel running thick and deep and into history. A woman and her horse – a sexual connection some like to think, a spiritual connection, or something that just is?

It is mostly men who purport that women enjoy the sexuality of being with horses… the beast between the legs or the harnessing of the power. The correct rider moulds her body to her horse’s, sits deep and still and upright and her technique is often her own. She rides her horse because that is the verb to describe it, and the channel between her mind and her horse’s is invisible and unexplainable. Does this make it spiritual? For most women who have, or work with horses, the obsession seeded at a very young age when a pony could live in the bedroom and boys didn’t exist. To grow up with a horse on your mind, to have every thought processed around one and every ambition sculpted towards one, could be spirituality. But these are just words, because essentially there is no explanation for why a woman would love her horse so incredibly, so much more than a man loves his? It just is.

The horse is not a symbol of femininity. It can be, but the horse fits into the role of masculinity as well as it does into femininity. However, the image of a woman draped over her horse is a powerful image. There is acceptance there that is not as easily visible between the man and his horse. In my dealings with horses I notice that the woman is more accepting of the horse being who it is than the man, who tries to barge the horse into being what he wants it to be. And women are better riders not just because they are smaller and more flexible, but because they are quieter. They listen more.

And isn’t this the ever-waging war of the sexes? Do we bring the fundamental differences between women and men to the stables? A horse of your own is a long-term relationship with continuous progression and constant reward. Is that not what they say a woman spends her life seeking – a partnership for life and the ideals of a long-term relationship?

Much of what we think about women and horses is moulded from the images we see of them together. They are erotic, the same effect lost when a man is pictured. And that is not to remove the male from his place by the side of a horse, but the woman puts herself there in such a different way. The horse is an extension of a woman’s femininity and often an elongation of her beauty, and these are just the physical observations. If I think about the time I spend with my horse, the commitment to be at his side every morning and my attention to his every detail, I smile and think about something someone once said to me… the master of the horse is the master of the house!

Alice Roosevelt on the lawn of the White House c.1907, and an example of how mesmerising the woman and her horse can be

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Comment by Nobody Important

February 21st 2007 01:19

i have to say i agree that a woman and her horse pictured together is such a wonderous site. You can't help but to stop and look at the picture. When my step dad rides my horse, Dakota, my horse will actually stand by me and won't move from that spot which shows how strong a relationship between a girl and her horse can be. My step dad gave up on ridding him because he just won't listen to him. LOL (true story)

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February 21st 2007 02:11

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What a perfect story Nobody Perfect! Yours is the reality of what books and movies like The Black Stallion illustrate - the perfect symphony between horse and human. I see that between women and horses more than I do with men, it's unexplainable I think. Your horse sounds fantastic. A partnership like that must make you feel invincible sometimes!

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