Channel Archives: Community

I rode my first horse at the age of three, and got my first horse at five. Cheyenne was a big grey, almost white mare and I felt like I...

Beautiful to look at, wonderful to smell and if you’re a horse there is nothing you would rather be eating and arguably nothing more natural you should be eating. On...

The death of young event rider Olivia Inglis earlier this month sent shockwaves of grief throughout the horse world and beyond. Monday, family and friends packed a Sydney church to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE5d87ziCOU Famous riders telling mortifying stories. WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE?! Her uncle is world #1 ranked four-in-hand driver, Chester Weber. Her mom, the co-organizer of their family's annual horse show....

From Gulfport to Germany, here’s what’s live streaming this weekend. Saturday 13 March 07:50 ET Reem Acra FEI World Cup s’Hertogenbosch, GER 16:00 ET $7.7k Jumper Classic Gulfport, MS 19:30 ET...

He's one of the most famous horsemen in all of France, as renowned for his training ability as he is for his performance art. A show by Bartabas fuses music, dancing,...

“What are the three things you must have in order to become a good rider?” 1. A good seat. 2. A good seat. 3. A good seat. This was the...

It’s just over 30 seconds long, but a video captured by Sue Robinson of Leicester, UK this week demonstrates just about everything you’d ever need to about the horse-human connection. No...

If this video hasn’t made your day yet, it’s about to. Of course, free jumping is one of the ways that young or green horses can be evaluated as over-fences candidates....

I’ve got a confession to make: I’ve been holding out on you. There is one simple exercise that I uncovered a while ago and haven’t shared here. And it’s a...

This week it was revealed that model Bella Hadid, daughter of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Yolanda Foster, was forced to give up her dream of riding in the...

In case you were wondering, Bruce Springsteen was “born in the U.S.A.” Anything you’d like to add to that, Bruce? “I’m a cool rockin’ daddy in the U.S.A.” Indeed you...

Disclaimer: I may be a YA author but I do tend to cuss from time to time (I would blame my day job of being a journalist but I’ve long...

To the untrained eye, lunging looks like an exercise of chasing the horse around in seemingly never-ending circles. I’ve often heard questions posed by new equestrians, horse husbands and non-horsey...

“It’s an amazing day! You could say there’s only one person who could be happier than me today and that’s the winner. I would bet that I’m happier!” That was...

When I was a kid we were basically like free-range chickens at the barn. Our parents dropped us off early in the morning and we spent the day pecking all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do40YApL1hA Although exact figures are hard to come by, the sheer magnitude of horses lost in the First World War can be difficult to process. Some estimates put the number as high as 8 million in four...

Four years ago when I took a chance on a “rescue” prospect, I wasn’t really
 sure what I was getting myself into. It turned out that this horse was
 labelled...

Some horses need time and training to learn how to negotiate a jump. Like this one, who’s clearly doesn’t understand the purpose of canter rails. At all. [caption id="attachment_3796" align="alignnone"...

Anxious, wide-eyed parents ask me how to keep their kids interested in horses. All. The. Time. “You know…like you are, after all these years…” More often than not, this question...