Author Archives: Marina Callahan

They say life's too short to not eat dessert. Well, I say life is too short to not feed your horse the whole bag of treats. Okay, maybe not the...

You might know 27-year-old Adrienne Sternlicht from her clear round contribution to USA's team gold medal at the 2018 World Equestrian Games in Tryon, NC. Or for her back-to-back FEI...

When I spent my first summer out of school as a working student, I made too many rookie mistakes to count. One of them was opting for a baggie, cotton...

Do you treat your tack trunk like Mary Poppins' bag? Have you ever struggled to find that one hind boot 10 minutes before your class? Or left a trail down...

A runway and a barn aisle might seem worlds apart, but you can find Janelle Kenney strutting down both. Just not in the same pair of shoes. Kenney is a...

Every year, hundreds of equestrians all across the globe go to retrieve their horses from turnout, only to find them prancing nude, while their sun/fly/rain sheet lays in tatters throughout...

If there were ever a perfect time to unleash the world's most bizarre yet intoxicating true crime documentary, it was during a global pandemic. Netflix had a captive audience, and...

Come hell or high water or torrential downpours, you're going to the barn. Just because you're undeterred by inclement weather doesn't mean you have to be uncomfortable, though. A wise...

After an agonizing few months of lockdown limbo, we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. This isn't hyperbole. It's the view through the tunnel from...

If there is one thing dressage riders do really well, it’s breathing life into "classic" and "traditional" styles. While they prefer to keep everything within the [60 X 20 meter]...

“Riding is gentle on the body”—said no one ever. I once moved into a farmhouse to start a new job as a rider/groom. The (assumingly exhausted) girl before me didn’t...

Imagine for a minute that Huffington Post, Amazon and LinkedIn all got together to build one super site. But for horse people. So better. Meet Equishopper! The first online marketplace...

Right now, somewhere in North America, there is a girl sitting at home caught between awkward adolescence and the evening bell. She wears her paddock boots to the park, and...

It's the year 2020, and while it might be a tad disappointing we don't yet have flying cars or a colony on Mars, those things haven't ever really appealed to...

Wild horses are an iconic feature of the American West, but now on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, their future as a symbol of freedom on the frontier is threatened. ...

On Friday, Irish Olympian Kevin Babington sustained a spinal cord injury in his neck after a tragic fall at the Hampton Classic in the $75,000 Douglas Elliman Grand Prix Qualifier...

Lisa McLean has a masters degree in psychology, but when her career took an unexpected turn towards fashion she didn't overanalyze. "When I was pregnant, I left my job and...

Horses on the big screen isn’t exactly a mainstream draw, so if you wanted to kick back and enjoy a horse flick you might've been stuck watching Seabiscuit for the...

The clock strikes 4:45 a.m. and "Blank Space" bursts forth from your speakers, swiftly shaking you from your REM induced bliss. Suddenly possessed by the spirit of Gollum, a guttural...

It was over six-years-ago when the rickety trailer, jostling with rusty bolts, pulled through the driveway of the New Hampshire farm I rode at. Our stable relied on an aging...