Author Archives: Liz Brown

Rebecca Howard and Riddle Master are back following a 10th place finish in the individual eventing final at Rio. The sole Canadian in the final, Howard and her 15-year-old Canadian...

It's that time again! Every four years, equestrians around the world find themselves red in the face, defending horseback riding as a sport deserving of a place in the Olympic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBagYaGnHkw Welcome to the Tevis Cup, aka The Western States Trail Ride. the granddaddy of all endurance rides. The views are stunning, but the challenges of the trail can stymie the...

The young teen with a feathered mustache shuffled over to me, his eyes slightly down cast as he tried to shove the lead rope in my hands. Reflexively, I sighed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W46HzrHIpwk In the last decade there has been an explosion of research into mental health and suicide within veterinary medicine. A 2008 U.K. study first raised alarm bells when it...

My boyfriend (bless him) has been nothing but supportive of my horse habit. Despite an eyeball-scratching allergy to horses, he pops Reactine and goes on the odd trail ride with...

It was after midnight on New Year’s Eve when Dr. Carlin Jones stepped outside her mother’s house into the frigid Maine air. She sat on the deck. In her hands...

If you love running and riding, Ride n Tie might be the sport for you. In this equestrian event, the endurance of both horse and rider are tested as two...

As wildfires raged in and around the northern Alberta city of Fort McMurray this week, desperate horse owners banded together to evacuate their equines, with some even resorting to riding...

Bromont WEG 2018 has lost a second CEO in eight months, following the resignation of Luc Fournier last week. Fournier was part of an en masse resignation from the board,...

Everyone knows the rules when it comes to grooming during spring shedding season. Don’t wear polar fleece of any kind. Get ready to spend LOTS of quality time with your...

The careers of FEI officials and Olympic discipline competition format were the two main points of discussion at the fifth edition of the FEI sports forum, held this week in...

If you grew up horse crazy, you likely had some pony theme going on in your bedroom. While your friends had Tiger Beat tear outs of Leonardo DiCaprio hanging on...

Pfizer Canada has announced it will increase the amount of pregnant mare urine (PMU) it collects from its facilities in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan in 2016 and...

If you haven’t seen Rihanna and Drake’s back-to-back new videos for their latest collaboration “Work”, know this: they’re steamy. So steamy, YouTube deems them “explicit”. So steamy, they notched over 11...