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  1. Mine That Bird's winning Kentucky Derby Horsemanship: http://bit.ly/ytE48
  2. Horsemanship surfaces in the New York Times: http://tinyurl.com/clsrte #horse #equine
  3. The relationship that led to riding developed for thousands of years. Hunting likely led to the taming and training of orphaned foals...
  4. With hard evidence suggestive of milking & bitting horses 5500 years ago, one can surmise that horses were first ridden centuries earlier.
  5. Horsemen & horsewomen women do well to understand these levels and layers of neurophysiology to appropriately support the needs of horses.
  6. The archicortex and paleocortex are honed for survival, and provide the horse with many instinctual survival reactions, foremostly Flight.
  7. The neocortex is most developed and allows horses to think, conceptualize, and respond to the efforts of man to train and confine them.
  8. The cerebral cortex of the horse has 3 evolutionary divisions: the archicortex, paleocortex, and neocortex, all 3 functional and operative.
  9. There is scientific evidence horses were milked 6000 years ago. Milking implies domestication. Riding and breeding likely preceded milking.
  10. Domestication was evidenced by residues of mare's milk, or koumiss, found in the pottery, bridle wear on the teeth, and thin canon bones
  11. Pastoral man on the Kazakh steppes appear to have been the 1st to domesticate, bridle & ride horses around 3500BC http://tinyurl.com/dxbsll
  12. It is speculated that man tamed and rode horses for thousands of years before domestication. Domestication is proven to be 5,500 years ago
  13. Domestication is control of breeding. Harem nature of horses delayed control of breeding & Equus retained the ability to return to the wild.
  14. Horses most apt to be tamed & domesticated were those most tolerant & curious & understanding of man. Tarpan begat Equus Caballus eons ago
  15. Man began hunting horse, stalking and then herding, eating and then taming. Man then controlled breeding, and domestication followed.
  16. Man and horse shared the same geography through various periods of time. Tens of thousands of years ago the relationship became coevolution.
  17. Australopithecus--Hipparion, Upright man gazing at horse, wondering, assessing the power; horse looking at man, skeptic then as skeptic now
  18. The first scientific record of man and horse together is the Footprint Tuff discovered by Mary Leakey, dated to 3.6 million years ago, Kenya
  19. Bridging the rift between horse and mankind. http://tinyurl.com/csvvck Understanding horses