The Seahorse Sanctuary & Equine Therapy Center

27/09/2025

I gained 545 followers, created 3 posts and received 9 reactions in the past 90 days! Thank you all for your continued support. I could not have done it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

02/09/2025

THE SEAHORSE SANCTUARY & EQUINE THERAPY CENTRE
GRAND RAFFLE
Now’s your chance to win one of three GRAND prizes
Only 100 tickets will be sold!!!
$500 pesos per ticket!
FIRST PRIZE

Ensueño de Fuga Hotel Playa La Ropa
2 nights luxurious boutique hotel includes breakfast for 2
Valued at $8,225 pesos
PLUS
Restaurante El Mediterraneo in Zihuatanejo
Dinner for two
Value $1,000 pesos
PLUS
The Seahorse Sanctuary & Equine Therapy Centre
A Horseback riding lesson or one hour trail ride for 2
Value $1000 pesos
TOTAL VALUE 9,225 PESOS

SECOND PRIZE

Puerta Paraiso Boutique Hotel, Playa Larga
2 nights in a unique hotel right on the beach
Value $8,000 pesos
PLUS
Dental Clinic Villavicencio
Free dental cleaning and check-up (Ixtapa or Zihua office)
Value $1200 pesos
PLUS
The Seahorse Sanctuary & Equine Therapy Centre
Horseback riding lesson or one hour trail ride for 2
Value 1,000 pesos
TOTAL VALUE 10,200 PESOS

THIRD PRIZE
Casarosa B&B in Morelia
3 Night stay in centro Morelia including breakfast
Value $6,000 pesos
PLUS
MOLE NEGRO RESTAURANT
Breakfast for 2
Value $700 pesos
PLUS
Dental Clinic Villavicencio
Teeth cleaning and check up (Ixtapa or Zihua office)
Value $1200 Pesos

TOTAL VALUE 7,900 PESOS

16/08/2025

There is no correct use for draw reins.

Yes, you heard me.

Draw reins will always and forever be a shortcut for the benefit of the rider, not for the benefit of the horse.

There is no way to “correctly” create a leverage system that serves the purpose of pulling the horse’s head down and in.

The entire purpose is to make it easier for the rider to force the horse into a certain head and neck position.

Draw reins create a pulley system that amplifies the amount of pressure from the rider’s hands on the draw rein.

No matter how you configure them (where you clip them to) the leverage is always pulling the horse’s head IN.

The direction of leverage effectively serves to teach the horse to go behind the vertical.

Additionally, physical fitness is not built overnight.

The rider cannot feel the horse’s muscles fatiguing or when the horse is overstretched.

Humans are also notoriously bad at noticing discomfort signals from the horse so it becomes easy to ignore any attempts from the horse to communicate discomfort.

Draw reins skip steps that would otherwise allow the rider to gauge the horse’s physical capacity and where they’re at in terms of learning to carry themselves.

Skipping those steps does not develop the muscular ability any faster.

So, sure, the head and neck may go down and in and it may become easier to stop the horse from popping their head up, but it does not build the physical capacity to maintain that position for an extended period of time.

We should want the horse to seek contact and move into it softly, not hide from it.

The damage draw reins do to horses is apparent in their muscling but also their way of going.

Horses frequently ridden in draw reins are highly likely to dip behind the vertical with very little contact from the riding, “hiding” from contact.

This can be difficult to fix and it is much easier to avoid the problem in the first place by not using draw reins.

Draw reins, like many training gadgets, are for the rider.

They serve the purpose of offering instant gratification for the human.

But, this comes at the expense of the horse.

Building physical fitness and teaching correct carriage takes time.

Take the time it takes.

Draw reins are not for the horse.

They’re for the human.

There is no correct use for them.

This is a hill I will die on.

Stop rushing at the horses’ expense just to get to a destination faster.

It ALWAYS will come at a cost.

And usually it is the horse who pays.

13/04/2025

8021 followers, 37.1K likes, 2083 comments

29/03/2025

27/03/2025

Something beautiful for the day

6499 followers, 80.8K likes, 4506 comments

20/12/2024

Done!!! And I can’t believe that we did it before my mental wish deadline of Christmas Day

05/12/2024

The Zihuatanejo Parthenon has a dark and troubled history - but it's now being reopened as a public estate for the people of Guerrero.

05/12/2024