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This picture brings up so many memories of my first years as young professional. When I first started showing Pongo in the Pre Greens, people laughed. I did all of...

Have you ever discovered a unique coffee shop, or perhaps a delicious hole-in-the-wall ramen place, and you want that place to be really successful and thrive, but a little piece...

Each morning, the stable hands halter the horses individually and lead them quietly from their stalls through the sunlit barn aisle. Lead ropes are un-clicked from halters at the paddock...

The other day I woke up at dawn with mixed feelings of exhilaration and concern. I was going to be riding a new horse with a new-ish trainer. To provide...

We've all had it drilled into us: "Don't stand behind that horse, don't walk too close to that horse, don't pass so near to that horse, you'll get kicked!" We...

I remember the buck that threw me off in the middle of that hunt field—swift and clean. My friend came cantering up behind me, having missed the entire event. But...

Sometimes, a horse is just special. It's not because they did anything particularly notable as a show horse, or because they had champion bloodlines, or became notable breeding stock. They're...

Most people don’t get the opportunity to bring home the horse they took riding lessons on. But that’s exactly what happened the summer between my fourth and fifth grade year....

Aly Raisman is an Olympic gold medalist, and was captain of the gold medal winning US Olympic Gymnastics Teams in 2012 and 2016. Anyone familiar with her story has likely...

I just came back up to the house after putting my horses to bed, and I lingered a few extra minutes to feed a few carrots and take in the...

Choreographer and equestrian Paula Josa-Jones has written an intelligently observed, beautifully rendered collection of experiences and inspirations detailing her artist’s journey of learning to be more fully present in the...

Living in a town where being horsey is not the norm, I have often been challenged with this question, by others and even myself. It's hasn't been the easiest path,...

On Sunday, season three of Masterpiece’s Swashbuckling series, Poldark, thunders back onto tiny screens across the United States. This 18th-century drama stars Aiden Turner as Ross Poldark, a roguishly handsome,...

Like most everyone else on the morning of September 11, 2001, I can clearly remember exactly where I was and who I was talking to when I heard the news....

I unhitch my Shetland and put her outside in a corral to cool down. As she grazes, I see in her the ancestral Mongolian ponies: compact muscularity, shaggy pelt, round...

In my younger days I breezed racehorses alongside emus in the forests of Western Australia, galloped bareback through snow-laden fields in Canada, descended precipitously steep mountains on horseback in the...

Some decisions in life are never easy. For those of us lucky to have had horses or at least ridden most of our lives, there’s usually some kind of crossroads...

Living on Long Island (only one hour east of Manhattan) riding in New York City's famed Central Park was one of those those things on my to-do list for a...

Recently, my gelding injured his leg. He had some puffiness and low-grade lameness, so I treated it with ice wraps and stall rest with hand walking for a few days....

I’m having the best horse show season of my 35 year career in the ring. Yet I’ve barely been subject to the judge’s eye myself. I love being in the...