Channel Archives: Learn

I’ve written a few articles about colic—myths, when to go to surgery, and such—and, with all that's been said, by me, and by many other folks, I think that there’s...

If you have your horses where they can hang out with their buddies in big grass pastures, good for you.  Good for them, too. Horses are social creatures. They are very curious...

A major piece of the puzzle of equine airway diseases has been discovered: the role of fungi. A three-year study published by The Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine (JVIM) involving over 700...

For every yin, there is a yang. I wrote an article on fat horses—here’s one on skinny horses. Skinny horses are the flip side of the coin from fat horses....

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 the other? This may be...

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 barn for her riders. “The...

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 than just blindly deworming on...

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 Contagious from the Pan American...

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 that.) You want to do...

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 stable relied on an aging...

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 my trainer and help out...

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 keep getting faster. Records made...

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 the preferred mount of pony...

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 produces pre-defined and specific results....

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 up to nine miles in...

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 any sport, for that matter),...

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 life with the help of...

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 shoes. The phenomenon has firm...

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 have all witnessed the diverse...

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 people nuts, probably because healing...