When I teach horse riding to friends and family, I use like and as like trailer hitches: they pull my students into different concepts while they are in the saddle. “Hold...
My Connemara cross, Anna, is not known for being the most forward thinking of mounts. While she is pretty willing to do whatever is asked, she does not naturally possess...
If you’re a parent with little-to-no interest in horses, little-to-no money for the expensive hobby, yet were blessed (cursed?) with a horse-crazy child, you have my sympathy. I write this...
Many of us have had to deal with a spouse or significant other in planning the allocation of time, money and resources to our equestrian passion. I got lucky. Though not...
Last fall I bought my 14-year-old daughter a jumper. She had just finished a successful season in the low jumpers on the local circuit and was ready to move up...
Our friend Walter has a horse carriage business which services wedding, festivals and parades. A few days before Memorial Day weekend, he called and asked if my husband George and...
The horse bug doesn’t discriminate. Though it certainly seems to favor little girls who still believe in unicorns and fairies. The point is, you and I—the afflicted bug-carriers—know that once...
To promote the video for their single “No Rest,” the now defunct band, Dry the River, commissioned French multidisciplinary creative Xavier Barrade to make eye-catching posters to be hung around...
My pursuit of perfection has gotten me into a lot of trouble over the years. Both in and out of the saddle, it's led to paralysis and inaction more times than...
We horse people are a curious lot. Joy is found in mundane chores. Every season brings its peculiar challenges of mucking out stalls, feeding, cleaning water buckets, polishing tack, grooming,...
A few months ago, I fell off our three-year old son’s leadline horse. Chiquita is the sweetest, chillest, laziest mare you can imagine. Nothing bothers her—I could put Henry, who...
I've been feeling a little guilty lately because I haven't been able to maintain my riding and competing at the level I once did. I have increased responsibilities at home...
I've been riding horses since I was five-years-old. Maybe even before that. My mom used to hold me in front of her on the saddle on long trail rides in Central...
Imagine yourself in a front row seat at the final day of the 2017 Badminton Horse Trials earlier this month. Heart racing, hooves pounding, breathlessly counting the rails as they...
As an exchange student, I looked forward to watching Shakespearean plays at Stratford-upon-Avon, making new friends and traveling to other countries. I knew attending college in Worcester, England would be...
I was 12 years old, in 1966. My horse was Hootenanny, a 16 hand Belgium/Cross, golden chestnut with a blonde mane and tail. He had a white blaze, two white hind...
I'd like to sincerely wish a Happy Mother's Day to all of the horse show moms who tirelessly support their young riders in the often expensive, sometimes frustrating, always passionate...
With the race for the Triple Crown underway, it seems even non-equestrians are currently focused on what makes the perfect racehorse. So now seems the perfect time to revisit a...
As horse owners, we all have enough to worry about. Horses are constantly determined to do themselves harm. You can literally put them in a padded room and they will...
