{"id":7456,"date":"2025-04-29T15:42:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mu.is\/?p=7456"},"modified":"2025-04-29T15:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:42:29","slug":"the-day-of-the-icelandic-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mu.is\/en\/the-day-of-the-icelandic-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"The day of the Icelandic horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwjO6vv3w_2MAxVMRUEAHfaMAtEQ3ewLegQIDRAV\" aria-label=\"Translated text: We intend to honor the Icelandic horse on International Icelandic Horse Day on May 1st.\r\nIn addition to the traditional animal program.\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">We intend to honor the Icelandic horse on International Icelandic Horse Day on May 1st.\r\nIn addition to the traditional animal program.\r\n\r\n<\/span><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">At 2:00 PM, the Reykjav\u00edk Zoo educational members will allow guests to observe the horses' training sessions using methods borrowed from, among others, animal behaviorist Eva Bertilson. The park's educational department hosted a fun and informative course with Eva earlier this winter. Eva has traveled widely to teach and provide advice on animal training to professionals who work with animals and has also provided education to the public. She uses positive training methods with the goal of improving the animals' quality of life.\r\n\r\nAt 2:45 PM Horse breeding judgments and related topics from Hei\u00f0r\u00fan Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, livestock geneticist. Nothing related to horsemanship or the Icelandic horse is irrelevant to Hei\u00f0r\u00fan and guests should not be disappointed to hear what she has to say.\r\n\r\nHorses of Iceland, a marketing project related to the Icelandic horse, plans to introduce virtual reality glasses where visitors can experience the horse in a new way.\r\n\r\nGuests will have the opportunity to run 100 meters and see if they have anything against a horse's best time in the 100 m pace race and test their skills in horse shoe throw.\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwjO6vv3w_2MAxVMRUEAHfaMAtEQ3ewLegQIDRAV\" aria-label=\"Translated text: We intend to honor the Icelandic horse on International Icelandic Horse Day on May 1st.\r\nIn addition to the traditional animal program.\"><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International day of the Icelandic horse is may 1st<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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