Channel Archives: Lifestyle

Breeches. We love them. We hate them. We can’t resist picking up just one more pair on the off chance that we finally find the “Goldilocks” of riding pants—breeches that...

Suns with bouncing arrows. Little wavy lines. Furry looking peanuts. Just what are all those mystical symbols on the label of your sun shirt? And, more importantly, what do they...

You might know 27-year-old Adrienne Sternlicht from her clear round contribution to USA's team gold medal at the 2018 World Equestrian Games in Tryon, NC. Or for her back-to-back FEI...

While COVID-19 has put a temporary halt to the in-person event, BreyerFest 2020 is a virtual go with events, workshops, shows and, yes, films available online. And EQUUS Film Channel...

Each June, Tory Bilski meets up with a group of fellow women travelers in Reykjavik and heads to northern Iceland. Together, they escape their ordinary lives for an extraordinary adventure...

When I spent my first summer out of school as a working student, I made too many rookie mistakes to count. One of them was opting for a baggie, cotton...

Do you treat your tack trunk like Mary Poppins' bag? Have you ever struggled to find that one hind boot 10 minutes before your class? Or left a trail down...

Like the rest of the world, the equestrian community is grappling with the concept of erasure. Erasure is when those in power promote their viewpoints and icons in the historical...

You know what’s one awesome thing about riding? Getting the chance to gallop around fields, arenas and along muddy, woodland trails. You know what’s not awesome about riding? Cleaning your...

A runway and a barn aisle might seem worlds apart, but you can find Janelle Kenney strutting down both. Just not in the same pair of shoes. Kenney is a...

Do you love horses and also love to read? SAME. Now we can obsess about both together! (While staying apart.) Introducing HN Reads, the monthly book club vodcast where clever...

Every year, hundreds of equestrians all across the globe go to retrieve their horses from turnout, only to find them prancing nude, while their sun/fly/rain sheet lays in tatters throughout...

Come hell or high water or torrential downpours, you're going to the barn. Just because you're undeterred by inclement weather doesn't mean you have to be uncomfortable, though. A wise...

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....