Helena Ståhl had a horse. With this horse the 24-year-old competed in amateur harness races in Sweden. Then one day Ståhl’s horse, Iffy Mant, sustained a significant, ultimately fateful injury....
When I was a child, I developed an obsession with horses. This was rather unfortunate, as I came from the kind of background where girls didn’t get to have horses....
Why do show hunters, equitation riders and horse show pleasure riders so often lope along in that "dead zone" canter? Part of the answer must be that the slower, more...
Anxious, wide-eyed parents ask me how to keep their kids interested in horses. All. The. Time. “You know…like you are, after all these years…” More often than not, this question...
Recently, I wrote a brief post previewing a scene from Kenneth Branagh’s 2015 Cinderella movie, starring Lily James in the title role. This weekend, I watched the movie again in its...
True confession time... It took me "forever" to understand that the better way to get a horse light and in at least some degree of self carriage was to learn...
Something interesting happened recently that served to drive home a central aspect of riding repeated time and time again by the classical masters; something that I myself try to teach...
