When should your horse use a water treadmill or swimming pool? Water treadmills and swimming pools are growing in popularity as tools to complement training and rehabilitation. But in what...
“I can’t talk right now; I have 16 hands between my legs.” Fifteen years on and I still remember the moment my boss spouted out that gem. She was a...
#MasterclassMonday is a collaboration between Horse Network and NOELLEFLOYD.com to empower equestrians. Every Monday we’ll bring you a new lesson from a leading trainer to help you troubleshoot your training,...
Assuming that you haven’t been living in a cave, or haven’t been enjoying some wonderful vacation in a remote location without internet access (they exist), by now, you’ve probably heard...
The frog, that wedge-shaped cushion or pad on the bottom of the horse's hoof, is nature’s answer to equine traction, circulation, shock absorption and, apparently, humankind’s curious attempt at naming...
#MasterclassMonday is a collaboration between Horse Network and NOELLEFLOYD.com to empower equestrians. Every Monday we’ll bring you a new lesson from a leading trainer to help you troubleshoot your training,...
#MasterclassMonday is a collaboration between Horse Network and NOELLEFLOYD.com to empower equestrians. Every Monday we'll bring you a new lesson from a leading trainer to help you troubleshoot your training,...
As Horse Network's resident #horsewordnerd and a holder of copious amounts of useless information, I’m compelled to find meaning in whatever I like, frankly. Late one night while trying to...
We horse folk have the good fortune to be surrounded by horseshoes. The expensive variety we buy our horses every four to eight weeks. We know they are lucky because...
Who hasn’t had a horse who’s always “in your pocket”? The one who pushes and rubs and walks super close? We tend to either love on this horse because his...
Dressage is regarded as an art form today. But its intended purpose, as I am sure you know, was to train horses for battle. So, I wonder, are any of...
You can’t be a practicing USEF member or even a casual participant in the sport these days without feeling the winds of change nipping at your heels. Mostly, they come...
I cannot imagine that I am the only person who wishes that I could predict the future. Try as I might, I just can’t. Not even if I have an...
I was thinking about hackamores the other day, as you do, and thought it was another fine example of a strange word we so often find in the horse world....
Now that I call myself an “investigative reporter” on all things horsey and of minimal importance, and since Christmas is upon us, I thought I’d take a deeper look into...
I am constantly amazed at people’s taste for “natural.” I mean, really, humans have spent most of their civilized life trying to get away from natural. Now, it’s constantly being...
A – Enter at working trot X – Halt, salute. And from there, things get a bit chaotic, letter-wise. For the love of all things horsey what do these letters...
When you’re as immersed in the horse world as me and you, we tend to lose sight of how odd some of the words are that we use. Then, for...
When I first got out of veterinary school and started looking at horses prior to purchase (usually referred to as a “vet check” or a prepurchase exam), the horses usually...
