I’m Trotting Along the Backside of My Riding Career—And Grateful for Every Lap
There’s a downed branch in the back field. It’s just a little thing. You could barely call it a log, really, but it serves our purpose. After weekly lessons, my...
There’s a downed branch in the back field. It’s just a little thing. You could barely call it a log, really, but it serves our purpose. After weekly lessons, my...
We all have a favorite pair of boot socks. It’s the pair that makes your heart go pitter patter when you see them on top of the clean laundry pile....
She’s off the trunk before I come around the corner, a flurry of scraping nails and excited whimpers. Maybe it was the familiar cadence of the horse’s hooves on pavement....
If there's one group of people that it's actually fun to shop for this holiday season, it's your horse peeps. Because everything you buy for them is something you also want for...
Clothing designer Phyllis Stein has a way of putting her finger exactly on the horse girl zeitgeist, and her classics collection is no exception. Since the dawn of time and Lisa Frank horse...
She left her family and all she knew behind, got on her horse, and rode west. Sounds like a song about some long-ago adventure, doesn’t it? It was only 40...
As Kermit the frog once lamented, it’s not easy being green. But it's really not that hard, either. Taken on balance, equestrian facilities are not considered by experts to be...
"Do people ever think you wear those ironically?" the chiropractor asked as I lay on her table. I was rocking a pair of navy riding pants and a t-shirt. The...
Once upon a time, style, substance and affordability were mutually exclusive, at least when it came to riding helmets. In the “days of old,” you could look every inch the...
In a perfect world, there’s nothing obstructing the connection between you and your horse. In reality, every horse’s back and shoulder conformation is different and changes over time. Even the...
Equestrian business owners are always looking for ways to save time and energy, especially when it comes to management tasks such as scheduling, billing, and invoicing. In 2012, lifelong equestrian...
Equestrian Stockholm’s new Black Raven collection is embracing a new power-color. It also has an appropriately catchy tagline: Black Raven makes a statement and leaves a mark. They’re not kidding. ...
I flash back on occasion to the early years of my horse-trailering experience—begging rides from acquaintances, loading my 4-H project pony into whatever rig might be passing by our driveway...
“What if every single human being chose one threatened animal or insect or bird or fish and decided to save it? I think the world would look completely different if...
Adventurer Jesse McNeil knows a thing or two about long-distance adventures. He's hiked the nearly 2,200 miles of the Appalachian Trail between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in...
This month, the industry has been buzzing with the release of one of the biggest helmet safety studies in recent years from the renowned Virginia Tech Helmet Lab. The results...
It's the most wonderful time of the year...winter circuit! Also the holidays, I suppose. While the horseless will be cozying up by the fireplace with hot chocolate and Hallmark movies,...
You know we love horse people. Horse people work hard. Horse people are fun (mostly). Horse people would do next to anything for their animals. But technologically savvy? Ehh—not so...
To wash or not to wash? When it comes to dirty saddle pads, that’s pretty much always the question. Sure, the issue seems simple on its face. But there’s a lot more...
If you've ever met Israeli show jumper Ashlee Bond, or watched one of her interviews, the first thing you'll note is her high-energy spunk. A pink streak running through her...