Pan Tau and Horse Around Days
The original purpose of my post about this exhibition, was just to put up photos that I took during Horse Around Days. However, I put up some “controversial” photos of Pan Tau being ridden by a professional jumper. I saw a sensitive horse trying to figure out what an accomplished rider wanted. I certainly did not see any misbehavior with Pan Tau. I also saw that Akhal-Tekes are not for everyone and that they cannot be ridden the same as most horses, especially warmbloods.
Here is the line of photos I have just added to the Horse’n Around Days post:
The purpose of this post is to apologize to Pan Tau’s owner, Amrita of AkhalTeke.cc;
We (mainly me, Kerri-Jo Stewart of Golden Dreams Stud) apologize to Amrita, the rider, and the Akhal-Teke community for portraying an Akhal-Teke, specifically Pan Tau, in a bad light. It never was my intent to do so.
It also led to a lot of criticism for the rider, whom I believe just feels that he was training a horse that hadn’t been ridden much to go over the jumps properly for the exhibition.
What I can also say about Amrita is that she is not only amazing trainer and a great rider, she is also an extremely genuine and nice person. If I had the money right now I would send my horses to be trained by her. I am actually trying to arrange something with Darginka. Unfortunately right now Amrita is badly injured and is not doing any training (which is why she had a volunteer ride Pan Tau for the exhibition).
Here are some images of Pan Tau from AkhalTeke.cc:
And my personal favourite from Amrita:
August 29th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
I’m afraid an AT is a horse in the fist place, as far as physiology goes; and as to psychology, I think it is needless to say how an AT (or any other horse) reacts to physiological abuse, which is very much what is to be seen here…