Age

Thinking about horses' age. So far I have calculated one horse's year for four human years. That is a 1:4 ratio. A four year-old horse compares to a 16 year-old human. But does this make sense? After all, the human's average age is 70. The horses' average age could easily be 35, if they were not started so early.

If I take not 1:2 but 1:3 as my ration, Nidal (15) would be 45 in human terms, Fabian and Zola (12) 36, and Leporello (9) 27. The white horses, who you do not see in the photograph below, Mira (10), at this time master of a group of mares over in Les Rochers and Pinochio (14), keeping his golden girls happy in the valley, would, respectively, be 30 and 42 in human terms.

And, as a matter of fact, these ages do correspond to their current states of development. It is my hope that, now, that we found out how riding functions and no longer submit horses to false training concepts, Fabian (12/36), Nidal (15/45), and the others, will continue to progress and one day soon and for a long time thereafter be useful to a generation of new riders, who will learn how to be one with the horse.