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Seven years ago, Larisa Quirk was feeling frustrated and disheartened with her recently adopted mare, Starbucks. The spicy Thoroughbred had a taste for speed, and Larisa’s plans to point her...

It seems that I’ve been blessed with a love for all horses. But some have, at times, been difficult to get along with.  For me, Bella had fallen into that...

When Leigha Schrader first laid eyes on Slick, she felt sorry for the scrawny two-year-old colt. He was malnourished with a neck as skinny as a toothpick and infested with...

I do some my best thinking in the barn. It’s quiet, and most communication is nonverbal, which I’ve grown to find can be quite clear. My mind is rarely on...

Kim Ellis lost her beloved mare in early 2016 after Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM) cut their partnership short. So, when she began searching for another horse later that year, it...

New Year's resolutions and plans, the perfect way to reflect on the past year and look forward to the future. But how can we turn wishes and goals into plans...

On a hectic Monday morning just three days before the EQUUS Film Fest, I received an email from Bernice Ende, author of Lady Long Rider, informing her followers that she’d...

I was in one of the Wrigley Media Group theaters at the EQUUS Film and Arts Festival over the weekend, watching a set of shorts when from somewhere in the...

"You just have to take lessons from him! He’s THE expert!” said a friend. Simply nobody else would do. As a young teen, dressed in jeans and riding in an...

The most important thing is not to panic.  It was a skill I’d learned well over the years. Riding horses means learning to control your emotions. I had always been...

When Baker Bean first arrived at Days End Farm Horse Rescue in October 2006, the scrawny, malnourished two-year-old Appaloosa colt more closely resembled a crippled foal than a two-year-old. The...

One of the questions I get asked most often is if I have any bear spray in my saddlebags. The answer is no: in part because it’d be hard to...

Our culture, our way of life, our entire world is structured along certain consistencies and absolutes that people rely and depend upon to live their lives. People wake up every...

I still cannot believe that my trip to Gerti and Philip Kusseler's Wait a Little Horse Safari was so many months ago (like maybe 12 of them). But in all...

Recently, my travels took me down a suburban country road that brought back an unexpected flood of memories—and mixed feelings. In my other life, I’m a specialty construction trade contractor...

When I was a young girl, my mom and I had a discussion about body types. At the time, I, like most girls my age, envied celebrities like Cameron Diaz,...

In early 2018, Michelle Durpetti faced a tough decision. Her amateur-owner hunter Moody Blues had made an incredible recovery from cervical vertebral malformation, or “Wobbler’s Syndrome,” more than six years...

So many young people grow up with horses and want to make a career in the sport. The image of travelling to horse shows and competing with your peers or...

I wasn’t always a horse show husband. Just a few years ago, I was a single guy, working as an editorial and wedding photographer, oblivious to the existence of the...

I see you. Yes, you with the chubby horse that may or may not be caked in dried mud at the moment. I see that you’re busy and that maybe...