Channel Archives: Learn

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...

I must admit I had never found the word post remotely interesting until I decided to figure out why we call it a posting trot. Turns out, the word post...

Canadian horsemen Tim Worden, PhD, and Sean Jobin are out-of-the-box thinkers. Their evidence-based approaches to equine athlete selection, development, performance and management are gaining notice and credibility. Their work and...

Utrecht University’s Equine Clinic is performing cutting-edge biomechanics research that is reshaping how we think about the equine body and applying new technologies to enhance health. Last month while I...

When Benjamin Franklin proclaimed that, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” he was referring to fire prevention in Philadelphia. But, this sage piece of wisdom is...

Between the 150 seminars and clinics, enormous trade fair and phenomenal entertainment, EQUITANA USA is a wealth of education and shopping options. But I'm pleased to say my game plan...

The EQUITANA USA planning extravaganza continues! Between the enormous trade fair at Kentucky Horse Park, the show stopping entertainment, and 150 seminars and clinics all across three days, October 1-3,...

I'm a planner. And if there's an event that requires a little coordinated planning, it's EQUITANA USA. With an enormous trade fair at the equally enormous Kentucky Horse Park, spectacular...

When Babbie Styslinger arrives at her 56-acre farm in the town of Leeds, near Birmingham, Alabama, her presence rarely goes unnoticed. Sure, Babbie’s training partner Brandy Jewell Dempsey generally has...