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: