Natangu

father of many sons

[Rach Ratos @RachRatos]

The Soundtrack in Lisa The Painful when you’re fighting an enemy that permakills your party members

[宝丼 コミティア156東7M10b @TreasureBooru]

PONG!!!

[𝐊𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐀｜𝐋𝐕.𝐂✦𝐍🐊 @Kontenasan_bf]

Taiki Shuttle: Runs Like He’s Just Playing

He was the first foreign-bred horse—and the first horse who made his living at a mile or shorter—to be voted JRA Horse of the Year.

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Akazawa, then head of Taiki Farm, once explained the core idea behind his ownership model: “You can breed in America, raise in Ireland, and bring the horse to race in Japan. I thought: why not build a co-ownership club around that?” He rated American breeding highly enough that he bought property there—Big Sink Farm (Taiki Farm’s U.S. division)—and from that vision Taiki Shuttle emerged. He was foaled in the United States at Big Sink Farm, then shipped to Ireland as a yearling for his early development.

At the time, many U.S.-bred horses imported to Japan arrived through training sales. Because those youngsters had already been put through disciplined under-saddle prep, they tended to run well early; the flip side was a reputation—fair or not—for being precocious and peaking young. I can’t say how fair that stereotype really was, but because so many of the American horses people saw in Japan came through those training sale pipelines, “American-bred = early type” became a bit of conventional wisdom. Taiki Shuttle didn’t fit that template. He hadn’t been produced specifically to sell through a breeze-show ring, and there was no need to grind him hard as a 2-year-old.

He finally came over to Taiki Farm in Japan as a 2-year-old. The farm’s breaking/conditioning manager remembered thinking, “He looks bigger than the scale says…” The transition wasn’t smooth. Stress from the change of environment left him with a skin issue along the crest of his neck. Once that cleared up, he kicked a paddock fence and opened up a wound on his left hind. When that healed, he started favoring his left front—he just didn’t want to put it down squarely. His feet were a little soft; hoof issues would haunt him again and again throughout his career.

It took time before he could even hold new shoes. When he finally got going under tack, he promptly dumped his rider, tore off down a rough, stony track for about a kilometer, then finished the self-directed workout by trotting calmly into his stall and tucking into his feed as if nothing had happened. No injuries. Progress, of a sort.

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In February of his 3-year-old year he shipped into trainer Kazuo Fujisawa’s yard at the Miho Training Center. Fujisawa had spent time in England at age twenty-one and absorbed a lot from British training philosophy. He was fond of saying things like, “Driving them hard once or twice before a race doesn’t change a horse’s actual ability.” He put more weight on daily foundation work than on flashy final times, and he based his program on what we’d call no-push gallops rather than repeated all-out drills.

A work rider recalled his earliest sits on Taiki Shuttle: “He was looking around and not really running in earnest—but he still clocked a decent time. I thought: this one can win.” Most horses tense up when first asked to go up the Miho uphill, but Taiki Shuttle would just glide. After his very first go up the hill he came back full of himself—so full, in fact, that he tried to bite the groom. Fujisawa, deciding the colt was basically just playing, handed him a riding crop as a toy. Taiki Shuttle chomped on it and happily swung it around. The next morning the whip lay on the ground, snapped clean in two.

Everyone who got on him said the same thing: good horse. Even so, just before his planned debut he went off in his action again, so Fujisawa pushed the debut back rather than hurry him.
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[Natangu @Natangu03]

@sive8805 happy birthday, goat

[Cybershell @Cybershell]

Imagine a show where instead of getting worse over time it just keeps getting better. Instead of getting flanderized characters who initially seem one dimensional are infused with depth and pathos. Well it exists and it’s called The Venture Bros

[中山フェスタ @donnylalah]

スティルアイライズさんが中央登録を抹消。歴史的名牝ウオッカ様とダイワスカーレット様の血を引く産駒として、産まれる前からずっと見守ってきました。小さな体でデビューすら危ぶまれたまめちゃん、中央3戦を走り抜いたのは立派です。今後に幸多からんことを願い、全ての関係者様に心からの感謝を🙏

[Grilled Cheese @GCheeseDev]

@edmundmcmillen

[TheRealRjob @TheRealRjob]

Volume Warning

[|DoreFatum| @DoreFatum]

I don't remember this level from Sonic 2...

[さめ @sametokaiuno]

背中をかいてもらって気持ちよさにモヒモヒしてるドットさん※見学要予約 #メイショウドトウ

[えすけび @esukevi]

…………。🧪☕

[Lunar & Sunny 🐴 @lunarandsunny]

Group meeting

[aetas_chi🍔🦊 @aetas_chi]

Quick rig
#Live2D

[moths 🐝🌸 Six & Gabriel's wife @rotten_m0ths]

#ultrakill

[Northern Lake🐴クラファンご支援ありがとうございました‼️ @NLstaff]

【第一目標達成の御礼と引き続きいただくご支援について】

本日10月24日、11時から始まった厩舎新築のクラウドファンディングがわずか4時間ほどで目標金額の1500万円を達成することができました。開始直後から金額がすごい勢いで伸びてはいましたが、まさかこんなに速く到達するとは思いもしませんでした。SNSの反応や見学にいらした方に接していて、ノーザンレイクの馬たちや牧場猫のメトを愛してくださる方がたくさんいることはわかっていたつもりでした。けれども今日、グングン伸びていく数字を目の当たりにして私たちの想像以上に多くの方々がノーザンレイクという牧場、そしてその仲間たちに心を寄せてくださっていることを改めて実感いたしました。代表の川越靖幸ともども、本当に感��しかありません。ありがとうございます。

今回のクラウドファンディングは、all or nothing　方式のため、必要な金額の最低ラインを目標額に設定しました。

牧場を開場して5年。高齢馬をはじめとした引退馬たちのケアをしてみて、こんな厩舎だったら馬が気持ちよく過ごせて、人も働きやすいだろうなという理想の厩舎を思い描きましたが、建築資材や人件費の高騰により、2つ欲しかった洗い場を1つにするなど様々なことを一旦諦めました。けれども目標額に達してさらに皆様からご寄付をいただいている現状を見て、諦めたことのいくつかを復活させ、厩舎周りだけではなく今牧場に必要なものを整え、馬にも人にも快適な牧場作りをしたいという気持ちが大きくなってきました。
このように理想や希望がたくさんあっても、想定外の初日達成でバタバタしてしまい、ネクストゴール設定に向けて十分な準備がまだできていません。近日中に設定いたしますので、皆様これからもよろしくお願い申し上げます。

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[ナオト◆新刊通販中 @shikigami621]

#フォロワーの推しポケが描きたい
ニャスパー

[Von @VondaNyom]

when the horse starts tweaking
#umamusme #ウマ娘 #goldship

[米粥01134（comms closed） @mzhu112646]

OOOOOOOOOOOOO
#重音テト