It’s here again. Fly mask season. Just as soon as we’ve all escaped from another muddy spring and right as our thoughts turn to sunny afternoon gallops, the first flies...
After an agonizing few months of lockdown limbo, we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. This isn't hyperbole. It's the view through the tunnel from...
If there is one thing dressage riders do really well, it’s breathing life into "classic" and "traditional" styles. While they prefer to keep everything within the [60 X 20 meter]...
“Riding is gentle on the body”—said no one ever. I once moved into a farmhouse to start a new job as a rider/groom. The (assumingly exhausted) girl before me didn’t...
Horse lovers young and old love to fantasize about equine-related travel. For me, I have daydreamed for decades about galloping across a beach on a horse with a big stride,...
Imagine for a minute that Huffington Post, Amazon and LinkedIn all got together to build one super site. But for horse people. So better. Meet Equishopper! The first online marketplace...
Those who study equines can identify plenty of ways the domestic horse has had to develop coping mechanisms related to a life lived in small, contained spaces with few companions....
It seems Queen Elizabeth is living her best lockdown life, holed up at Windsor Castle with a stable of horses and her husband Prince Philip. While the Royal Windsor Horse...
Many of us became horse crazy because of our mothers, aunts, grandmothers, or another female figure who swept in and encouraged us into a saddle. They threw us up on...
Podcasts! All the cool kids are listening to them. Here are five we've curated just for you on Horse Network. (Yes, this is a shameless promotional plug. Also, we're just...
To Dr. David Ramey, a mystery is something that is begging to be solved. And he happens to have one sitting in on his desk at home: a very old...
Ok, so the kids might like a break from horses. (Missed Part 1? Check it out here.) Let’s unsaddle for a while and take a look at some films and...
With the kids out of school and shuttered inside with the (ugh!) parents for weeks now, this is the perfect time to fill some of those increasingly empty hours with...
Horse lovers tend to be good storytellers. From recounting our first nasty fall to explaining exactly what the horse got into that they were not supposed to, being able to...
As the days of the pandemic trickle forward like water from a kinked hose, many people are feeling more emotions in 24 hours than they usually do in a month....
Half Broke by Ginger Gaffney documents the first year and a half the author spent working with fifty residents and the horses they care for at a prison re-sentencing facility. **** The men...
The streets have emptied, businesses have closed, and many of the significant spring horse events we wait for all year have been canceled or postponed. COVID-19 may have slowed us...
A good redemption narrative isn't the kind with tidy edges. It is the type of film that shows us breathtaking highs and crippling lows. The kind that has the courage...
It might be mud season outside, but spring has already arrived at EQUUS Film Channel. With 40 new films added this month—on therapeutic riding, racing, rescue, horse cultures big and...
Filmmakers and photographers alike know the difficulties of capturing horses on film. Horses are always moving, the wrong angle makes them look like giraffes, and bad lighting in indoor arenas...
