Horse Health
What Your Horse Might Have to Say About One-Sidedness
Have you ever noticed in training that it is often easier to do lateral work, bending, turning, and lead changes, in one direction than in…
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Psychology of Sport
OMG, Did You Hear…?!
I was recently at a summer show and talking to a very experienced coach who asked me if I could do a session at the…
7 months ago
Horse Health
“Natural” Dewormers
Sometimes, you may need to deworm your horse. Happily, if you do—and you should find out if you do with a fecal egg count rather…
7 months ago
Psychology of Sport
Good Decisions Begin with Strong Values
Last Wednesday, two-time Olympic team gold medalist McLain Ward (USA) opted out of his first championship in over a decade when he withdrew his mount…
7 months ago
Horse Health
Help, My Mare’s in Heat
OK. You’re convinced that your mare has behavioral problems because of her heat cycle. (Not sure? Read Part 1 of this series to brush up on…
8 months ago
Equine Therapy
When Therapy Meets Thoroughbreds
It was over six-years-ago when the rickety trailer, jostling with rusty bolts, pulled through the driveway of the New Hampshire farm I rode at. Our…
8 months ago
Legally Speaking
Q&A: Does Working for Your Horse’s Board Make You a Professional?
Q: I just received notice that someone filed a U.S. Equestrian protest questioning my amateur status after they learned that I regularly hack horses for…
9 months ago
Horse Health
Why Horses Aren’t Getting Any Faster
I don’t know if you pay any attention to sports like swimming, or track and field, but if you haven’t, the fact is that people…
9 months ago
List
Shetland Ponies Are Equal Parts Fluff and Sass
They’re the fluffy speed demons eliciting “Awwwws” and squeals in equal measure on pony steeplechase courses around the country. They’re backyard pets, cart-pulling machines and…
9 months ago
Horse Health
False Precision
There’s something that you need to be aware of in the horse world. It’s called “false precision.” Precision (true precision) requires that a specific action…
9 months ago
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How to Decrease your Horse’s Risk of Colic with Nutrition Management
Horses have evolved as grazing animals, eating a wide variety of forages and living in herds. They graze at ground level and can cover distances…
9 months ago
Psychology of Sport
6 Reasons to Embrace Your Riding Mistakes
To err is human. So is stopping out in the triple and ploughing past the halt at X. If you ride horses (or participate in…
10 months ago
Books and Film
The Horse Cure
Inspired by her own childhood trauma when she spent seven days in a coma, awakened to a severely compromised body and brain, and rebuilt her…
10 months ago
Horse Health
Barefoot Trimming
There’s a curious phenomenon going on in the world. Some people assert that the horse’s hooves must be trimmed in a certain way, and the horse left without…
10 months ago
Interviews & Profiles
We May Ride in Different Saddles But We All Mount From the Same Side
Whether you ride with a lariat rope aiming for the steers horns, leap extraordinary heights in the jumper ring or dance across the dressage arena, we…
11 months ago
Horse Health
Type Two Wounds (Second Intention Healing)
You had to know that if there’s a type one wound, there’s also a type two wound. Type two wounds are the wounds that make…
11 months ago
Horse Health
A Veterinarian’s Guide to Treating Type One Wounds
They say that there are two kinds of people in life—lumpers and splitters.* Lumpers like to put everything into one box. So, to a lumper,…
12 months ago
Books and Film
10 Surprising Facts About Double H Farm’s Hunter Harrison
Show jumping fans know Hunter Harrison as the name behind the famous Double H Farm, owner of superstar horses like the two-time Olympic team gold…
12 months ago
Horse Health
Rehabilitating Tendon and Ligament Injuries
No matter what sort of treatment you choose when your horse injures a tendon or a ligament, the most important treatment will be time. TRIVIA TIME!…
12 months ago
Books and Film
Become the Mother
Over and over and from numerous sources it is impressed upon us that we must provide leadership for our horses…that in order to train them,…
